Grammatical performance of children with language disorder on structured elicitation and narrative tasks

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 161-182

  Hesketh, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child language; Grammatical output; Language impairment; Narrative; Structured elicitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 2342603001     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200310001659061     Document Type: Article

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