Mean length of utterance levels in 6-month intervals for children 3 to 9 years with and without language impairments

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-349

  Rice, Mabel L ^a   Smolik, Filip ^b   Perpich, Denise ^a   Thompson, Travis ^c   Rytting, Nathan ^a   Blossom, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c Emporia Public Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

Children with SLI; Children's language acquisition; Mean length of utterance; Normative data; Spontaneous language analyses

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950833151     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0183)     Document Type: Article

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