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1977

Children -- Language

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Analysis Of The Two Word Stage Of Language Development: An Ideographic Study, Lou Ann Mccoy Dec 1977

Analysis Of The Two Word Stage Of Language Development: An Ideographic Study, Lou Ann Mccoy

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The purpose of this longitudinal, ideographic clinical research project was to analyze a corpus of expressive language emitted by a child at the two word stage of language development via grammatico-semantic relationships (Brown, 1973) and via Developmental Sentence Analysis (Lee, 1974).


Speech Improvement As An Aid To Language Development, Marilyn Gould Knauf May 1977

Speech Improvement As An Aid To Language Development, Marilyn Gould Knauf

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The purpose of this investigation was to examine and estimate the effectiveness of a group speech and language improvement program on the speech and language skills of children at the kindergarten level.


The Maximum Duration Of Phonation Of /A/ In Children, Kerry Lewis Jan 1977

The Maximum Duration Of Phonation Of /A/ In Children, Kerry Lewis

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Measurement of maximum duration of phonation has been suggested by several voice experts as a clinical tool for assessing vocal function (Arnold, 1955; Irwin, 1965; Yanagihara, Koike and von Leden, 1966; and Boone, 1971). Most of the investigations of maximum phonation time have been conducted using adult populations. exceptions to this can be found in the studies by Launer (1971) and Coombs (1976). An apparent need, therefore, existed to investigate maximum phonation time in children.

The present study was designed to investigate the affects of age, sex, height, weight and vital capacity on the maximum duration of phonation of sustained …