On the nature and cause of Specific Language Impairment: A view from sentence processing and infant research

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 463-475

  Marinis, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infant speech perception; On line sentence processing; Phonological processing; Specific Language Impairment; Wh movement; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651367200     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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