Normal and pathological development of subject-verb agreement in speech production: A study on French children

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 147-180

  Franck, Julie ^a   Cronel Ohayon, Stephany ^a,b   Chillier, Laurence ^a   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^a   Hamann, Cornelia ^a   Rizzi, Luigi ^a,c   Zesiger, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attraction; Automatic processing; Language development; Specific Language Impairment; Spoken production; Subject verb agreement; Syntactic structure

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0347022676     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00057-5     Document Type: Article

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