Three accounts of the grammatical morpheme difficulties of english speaking children specific language impairment

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 741-753

  Leonard, Laurence B ^a   Eyer, Julia A ^b   Bedore, Lisa M ^a   Grela, Bernard G ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical morphology; Language disorders; Language impairment; Specific

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 0030852592     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4004.741     Document Type: Article

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