Clinical markers for specific language impairment in Italian: The contribution of clitics and non-word repetition

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 695-712

  Bortolini, Umberta ^a   Arfé, Barbara ^b   Caselli, M Cristina ^a   Degasperi, Luisa ^c   Deevy, Patricia ^d   Leonard, Laurence B ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c ANFFAS   (Italy)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Italian; Language assessment; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750555342     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820600570831     Document Type: Article

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