Word learning in children with vocabulary deficits

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 439-458

  Nash, Marysia ^a,c   Donaldson, Morag L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language impairment; Phonological representation; Semantic representation; Vocabulary deficits; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 22944479968     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/030)     Document Type: Article

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