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Martin J Ball1, Orla Lowry, Lisa McInnis
1Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA 70504-3170, USA. mjball@louisiana.edu
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
|January 24, 2006
Abstract:
This article describes the case of a client who displayed some interesting patterns of realization of the target English phoneme /r/. These varied according to both distribution within the word, and style of utterance. We speculate as to the cause of some of these forms, and on possible therapy strategies.
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