Lexical learning and lexical processing in children with developmental language impairments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1634, 2014, Pages

  Nation, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impairment; Language; Lexical

Indexed keywords

CHILD; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL THEORY;

AGE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMPAIRMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LEXICAL; LINGUISTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

IMPAIRMENT; LANGUAGE; LEXICAL;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84889793754     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0387     Document Type: Review

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