Grammatical morpheme effects on sentence processing by school-aged adolescents with specific language impairment

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 450-478

  Leonard, Laurence B ^a   Miller, Carol A ^b   Finneran, Denise A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical morphemes; Sentence processing; Specific language impairment; Word monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 62149108160     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802229649     Document Type: Article

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