Developmental trajectory for production of prosody: Lexical stress contrastivity in children ages 3 to 7 years and in adults

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1822-1835

  Ballard, Kirrie J ^a   Djaja, Danica ^a   Arciuli, Joanne ^a   James, Deborah G H ^b,c   van Doorn, Jan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Women's and Children's Health Network   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Lexical stress; Prosody; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871798881     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/11-0257)     Document Type: Article

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