Production of the English past tense by children with language comprehension impairments

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-137

  Nation, Kate ^a,c   Snowling, Margaret J ^b   Clarke, Paula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Dept of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING;

EID: 14644402974     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000904006555     Document Type: Article

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