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Normative Data For The Tennessee Test Of Rhythm And Intonation Patterns (T-Trip), Ray Drommond
Normative Data For The Tennessee Test Of Rhythm And Intonation Patterns (T-Trip), Ray Drommond
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Prosody is the flow of speech created by controlling elements such as pitch, rate, loudness, and stress (Tiffany and Carrell, 1977). Prosody is vital to intelligibility of speech and also communicates meaning. Despite the importance of prosody, however, few tests for the adequacy of prosodic ability in young children have been published (Koike and Asp, 1981a). To remedy this paucity of tools, Koike and Asp published the Tennessee Test of Rhythm and Intonation Patterns (T-TRIP). The clinical usefulness of the T-TRIP has been limited by a lack of normative data against which to compare individual children's performance.
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