Explaining lexical-semantic deficits in specific language impairment: The role of phonological similarity, phonological working memory, and lexical competition

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1742-1756

  Mainela Arnold, Elina ^a   Evans, Julia L ^b,c   Coady, Jeffry A ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical competition; Lexical semantic representation; Neighborhood density; Nonword repetition; SLI; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78650471913     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/08-0198)     Document Type: Article

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