Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Syntax and Semantics of Language Disorders

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 275-289

  Crago, Martha ^a   Paradis, Johanne ^b   Menn, Lise ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult acquired aphasia; Bilingualism and multiple dialect use; Comparative study across languages understanding language impairment in children and adults; Cross linguistic research on adult acquired aphasia; Usages of non standard dialect and aphasic speech patterns; Word string interpretation studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957925540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301007.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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