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The impact of emphatic stress on novel word learning by children with specific language impairment

S Ellis Weismer1, L J Hesketh

  • 1University of Wisconsin-Madison, Waisman Center and Dept. of Communicative Disorders, 53705, USA. sweismer@facstaff.wisc.edu

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
|December 22, 1998
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