The construct of complexity has been advanced recently as a potentially contributing
variable in the efficacy of treatment for children with functional phonological disorders. Thus …

Prosody is a general term that refers to several types of speech phenomena such as
intonation, stress/accent, and timing. Intonation is the use of pitch across phrases and …

This report includes an extended review of the contemporary inclusionary criteria used to
identify children with suspected apraxia of speech (sAOS) and describes findings supporting …

This study investigates acquisition of the rhyme using cross-sectional and longitudinal data
from 14 English-speaking children (aged 1; 3–2; 0). It focuses on 4 questions pertaining to …

Since the seminal work of Jakobson (1941/1968), phonological patterns observed in child
language have been documented and analyzed from a number of perspectives. Throughout …

Objectives The aim of this research is to examine the developmental stages of acquiring
stress in the speech of Ammani Arabic-speaking children (henceforth AASC). Methods …

A avaliação fonológica da criança em contexto clínico envolve o controlo de aspetos
específicos, devendo permitir avaliar de forma detalhada, célere, eficaz e dirigida para a …

In this dissertation, we aim at describing the acquisition path of five Portuguese children, in
respect to primary word stress (henceforth word stress). Portuguese word stress has been …

After many years of study, it has dawned on me that research is never finished and a final
version of a paper, let alone a dissertation, does not exist. I am pleased, however, that the …

This article reviews the importance of word stress for typical language acquisition and
presents evidence that in certain developmental language disorders, processing of word …