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Vocal motoric foundations of spoken language – a commentary on Iverson's ‘Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2010

D.KIMBROUGH OLLER*
Affiliation:
University of Memphis
*
Address for correspondence: D. Kimbrough Oller, School of Audiology and Speech–Language Pathology, The University of Memphis, 807 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, TN 38105. tel: 901 678 5841; e-mail: koller@memphis.edu

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Review Article and Commentaries
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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Footnotes

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This work has been supported by a grant from NIDCD (R01DC006099 to D. K. Oller, PI) and by the Plough Foundation.

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