Role of working memory in typically developing children's complex sentence comprehension

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 331-354

  Montgomery, James W ^a   Magimairaj, Beula M ^a   O'Malley, Michelle H ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Complex sentences; Sentence comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 47149101251     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-008-9077-z     Document Type: Article

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