Investigating sentence processing and language segmentation in explaining children's performance on a sentence-span task

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-175

  Mainela Arnold, Elina ^a   Misra, Maya ^a   Miller, Carol ^a   Poll, Gerard H ^a   Park, Ji Sook ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

language abilities; language segmentation; sentence processing; verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PENNSYLVANIA; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84863252123     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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