Children with SLI use argument structure cues to learn verbs

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1261-1274

  Oetting, Janna B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Specific language impairment; Syntactic bootstrapping; Word acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032853019     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4205.1261     Document Type: Article

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