Do children with Williams syndrome have unusual vocabularies?

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-34

  Stojanovik, Vesna ^a   van Ewijk, Lizet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Different word roots; Low frequency words; Unusual vocabulary; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NARRATIVE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 37349052096     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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