Grammatical morpheme effects on MLU: "The same can be less" revisited

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 878-888

  Leonard, Laurence B ^a   Finneran, Denise ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical morphemes; Mean length of utterance; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PERFORMANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0042475487     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/068)     Document Type: Article

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