The role of phonotactic frequency in sentence repetition by children with specific language impairment

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1401-1415

  Coady, Jeffry A ^a   Evans, Julia L ^b   Kluender, Keith R ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonological development; Phonotactics; Sentence repetition; SLI; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEMORY; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77957605878     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/07-0264)     Document Type: Article

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