Grammatical difficulties in children with specific language impairment: Is learning deficient?

Human Development

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 264-277

  Hsu, Hsinjen Julie ^a   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grammar; Specific language impairment; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

EID: 78651293195     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321289     Document Type: Article

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