Imitative production of regular past tense -ed by English-speaking children with specific language impairment

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-82

  Dalal, Rinky Harish ^a   Loeb, Diane Frome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Language disorders; Language intervention; Past tense marking; Saliency; Sentence imitation task; Specific language impairment (SLI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 12244272175     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820410001734163     Document Type: Article

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