Sentence processing strategies in children with expressive and expressive-receptive specific language impairments

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-134

  Evans, Julia L ^a   MacWhinney, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Language disorders; Language processing; SLI subgroups

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033038918     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136828299247469     Document Type: Article

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