Phonological sensitivity and memory in children with a foreign language learning difficulty

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 604-625

  Palladino, Paola ^a   Ferrari, Marcella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 46749135707     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802083072     Document Type: Article

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