Children with specific language impairment show rapid, implicit learning of stress assignment rules

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 397-406

  Plante, Elena ^a   Bahl, Megha ^a   Vance, Rebecca ^a   Gerken, LouAnn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 77955662819     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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