The acquisition of grammatical and lexical structures in children with cochlear implants: A developmental psycholinguistic approach

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-47

  Szagun, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition of grammar; Children with cochlear implants; Inflectional morphology; Language acquisition; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

EID: 0033950624     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000013864     Document Type: Article

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