Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 193-220

  Marshall, Chloe R ^a   Rowley, Katherine ^b   Mason, Kathryn ^b   Herman, Rosalind ^c   Morgan, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 84870866360     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000912000116     Document Type: Article

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