"Frog, where are you?" Narratives in children with specific language impairment, early focal brain injury, and Williams syndrome

Brain and Language

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 229-247

  Reilly, Judy ^a,b,d   Losh, Molly ^a   Bellugi, Ursula ^c   Wulfeck, Beverly ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal brain injury; Language development; Morphology; Narratives; Plasticity; Specific language impairment; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 0347355223     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00101-9     Document Type: Article

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