Productive use of the English past tense in children with focal brain injury and specific language impairment

Brain and Language

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 202-214

  Marchman, Virginia A ^a   Saccuman, Cristina ^b   Wulfeck, Beverly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

English past tense; Focal brain injury; Morphology; Overregularization; Plasticity; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0347355589     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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