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The Journal of Psychology
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Volume 120, 1986 - Issue 5
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Effect of Rate, Intonation, and Sentence Length on Nigerian Children's Imitation of Adults' Utterances

Pages 439-446 | Received 09 Apr 1986, Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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