Factors affecting accuracy of past tense production in children with specific language impairment and their typically developing peers: The influence of verb transitivity, clause location, and sentence type

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 993-1014

  Owen, Amanda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Complex syntax; Logistic regression; Past tense; SLI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE ARTS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LOGISTIC MODELS;

EID: 77955369378     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/09-0039)     Document Type: Article

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