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Research Articles

Prosody and schizophrenia. Objective acoustic measurements of monotonous and flat intonation in young Danish people with a schizophrenia diagnosis. A pilot study

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Pages 30-36 | Received 01 Jan 2023, Accepted 31 Aug 2023, Published online: 09 Oct 2023

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