A psychometric analysis of functional category production in English agrammatic narratives

Brain and Language

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-31

  Milman, Lisa H ^a   Dickey, Michael Walsh ^b   Thompson, Cynthia K ^b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasia; Functional categories; Item Response Theory; Morphology; Psychometric; Quantitative; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; THEORY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 40849111374     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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