Primary or "specific" language impairment and children learning a second language

Brain and Language

Volumn 109, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 101-111

  Kohnert, Kathryn ^a   Windsor, Jennifer ^a   Ebert, Kerry Danahy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental language disorders; Nonlinguistic processing; Sequential bilingual; SLI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING;

CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 65149088224     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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