Beyond capacity limitations: Determinants of word recall performance on verbal working memory span tasks in children with SLI

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 897-909

  Mainela Arnold, Elina ^a,b   Evans, Julia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linguistic representation; Serial order; Specific language impairment; Word frequency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 29144494098     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/062)     Document Type: Article

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