Effects of lexical factors on lexical access among typical language-learning children and children with word-finding difficulties

Language and Speech

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 285-317

  Newman, Rochelle S ^b   German, Diane J ^a  

^a NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Child language; Lexical access; Lexical neighborhood; Word retrieval; Word finding

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS;

EID: 0037608852     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309020450030401     Document Type: Article

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