The impact of lexical factors on children's world-finding errors

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 624-636

  German, Diane J ^a   Newman, Rochelle S ^b  

^a NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Language and learning disabilities; Lexical access; Lexical neighborhood; Word frequency; Word finding difficulties

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BOOK; ERROR; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBALIZATION; WORD FINDING DIFFICULTY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 3142581364     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/048)     Document Type: Article

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