Spoken and gestural production in a naming task by young children with Down syndrome

Brain and Language

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-221

  Stefanini, Silvia ^a   Caselli, Maria Cristina ^b   Volterra, Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Down syndrome; Gesture; Lexical production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 34249037822     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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