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Research Article

Effect of linguistic factors on the occurrence of stuttering-like disfluency among Japanese-speaking preschool children who stutter

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Pages 1-16 | Received 28 Mar 2021, Accepted 27 Oct 2021, Published online: 29 Nov 2021

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