Knowledge of morphologically complex words: a developmental study of older children and young adolescents

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-373

  Nippold, Marilyn A ^a   Sun, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Derivational morphology; Word knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 49049092351     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2008/034)     Document Type: Article

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