Specific Language Impairment in Italian and English: Evaluating Alternative Accounts of Grammatical Deficits

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-20

  Bortolini, Umberta ^a   Leonard, Laurence B ^b   Caselli, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032341975     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016909698386573     Document Type: Article

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