Elicited production of relative clauses in children with Williams syndrome

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-43

  Zukowski, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 58149288110     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960801966118     Document Type: Article

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