The omission of subject arguments in children specific language impairment

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-169

  Grela, Bernard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; SLI; Subject omission

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

EID: 0037952851     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269920031000061812     Document Type: Article

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