Specific language impairment and grammatical morphology: A discriminant function analysis

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1185-1192

  Bedore, Lisa M ^a   Leonard, Laurence B ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Grammatical morphology; Identification; Language disorders; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 0031708623     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4105.1185     Document Type: Article

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