Semantic and phonological fluency in children with Down syndrome: Atypical organization of language or less efficient retrieval strategies?

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 690-703

  Nash, Hannah M ^a   Snowling, Margaret J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Fluency; Phonological; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 50449087612     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290802274064     Document Type: Article

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