The management of conversational topic by a ten year old child with pragmatic difficulties

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 387-403

  Radford, Julie ^a   Tarplee, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Child; Conversation analysis; Interaction; Language disorder; Topic

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0033923392     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200050051092     Document Type: Review

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