Using network science in the language sciences and clinic

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-25

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Castro, Nichol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Psycholinguistic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS THEORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84921367876     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17549507.2014.987819     Document Type: Article

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