Characteristics of maternal input to children with Down syndrome: A comparison with vocabulary size and chronological age-matched groups

First Language

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 324-342

  Zampini, Laura ^a   Fasolo, Mirco ^a   D'Odorico, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; imitative utterances; lexicon; maternal input; syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864343738     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723711410780     Document Type: Article

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