Is the movement deficit in syntactic SLI related to traces or to thematic role transfer?

Brain and Language

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-63

  Friedmann, Naama ^a   Novogrodsky, Rama ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Hebrew; Movement; Reading; Relative clauses; SLI; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947701641     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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