Parental Recasts and Production of Copulas and Articles by Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typical Language

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 155-168

  Proctor Williams, Kerry ^a   Fey, Marc E ^a   Loeb, Diane Frome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Language development; Morphosyntax; Parental input; Recasts; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035614830     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2001/015)     Document Type: Article

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