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Child Neuropsychology
A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Volume 18, 2012 - Issue 6
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The neural underpinnings of prosody in autism

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Pages 600-617 | Received 24 Jun 2011, Accepted 18 Sep 2011, Published online: 19 Dec 2011

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