French-English bilingual children with SLI: How do they compare with their monolingual peers?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-127

  Paradis, Johanne ^a   Crago, Martha ^b   Genesee, Fred ^b   Rice, Mabel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition of morphosyntax; Bilingualism; First language acquisition; Second language acquisition; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PEER GROUP; SPEECH DISORDER;

CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PEER GROUP; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0037526118     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/009)     Document Type: Article

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