Verb argument structure weakness in specific language impairment in relation to age and utterance length

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 233-250

  Thordardottir, Elin T ^a   Weismer, Susan Ellis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Argument structure; School age; Specific language impairment; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE; FEMALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VOCABULARY; HUMANS;

EID: 0036020996     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200110116462     Document Type: Article

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