Production Operations Contribute to the Grammatical Morpheme Limitations of Children with Specific Language Impairment

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 362-378

  Leonard, Laurence B ^a   Miller, Carol A ^a   Grela, Bernard ^a   Holland, Audrey L ^b   Gerber, Erika ^a   Petucci, Marcia ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical morphology; Priming; Sentence production; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000925083     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2689     Document Type: Article

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