Specific language impairment: A deficit in grammar or processing?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 240-247

  Joanisse, Marc F ^a,b   Seidenberg, Mark S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SPEECH;

EID: 0031851543     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01186-3     Document Type: Review

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