Clinical implications of the effects of lexical aspect and phonology on children's production of the regular past tense

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-306

  Johnson, Bonnie W ^a   Morris, Sherrill R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language intervention; Lexical aspect; Past tense development; Phonology; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948969479     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659007080682     Document Type: Article

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