Investigating the effect of regional native accents on sentence comprehension in children with language impairment.
Purpose: Research has shown that accent variation can affect typically developing (TD) children’s understanding of language, as well as that of children with speech difficulties, neuro-typical adults and those with aphasia and dementia. This study aims to investigate the effect of regional native ac...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 434 - 447 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2018
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