Productive vocabulary across discourse types

Aphasiology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1261-1278

  Fergadiotis, Gerasimos ^a   Wright, Heather Harris ^a   Capilouto, Gilson J ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Diversity; Lexical diversity; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DISCUSSION GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LEXICAL DIVERSITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80053280264     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.606974     Document Type: Article

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