The interface between neighborhood density and optional infinitives: Normal development and Specific Language Impairment

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 835-862

  Hoover, Jill R ^a   Storkel, Holly L ^a   Rice, Mabel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84864562734     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000365     Document Type: Article

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