Nonword repetition problems in children with specific language impairment: A deficit in accessing long-term linguistic representations?

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 238-254

  Leclercq, Anne Lise ^a   Maillart, Christelle ^a   Majerus, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Nonword repetition; Specific language impairment; Verbal short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882303764     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TLD.0b013e31829dd8c9     Document Type: Article

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