Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 293-308

  Montgomery, James W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Sentence comprehension; Specific language impairment; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034169956     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4302.293     Document Type: Article

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