Contributions of children's linguistic and working memory proficiencies to their judgments of grammaticality

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 979-989

  Noonan, Nicolette B ^a   Redmond, Sean M ^b   Archibald, Lisa M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Language disorders; Memory; Specific language impairment; Syntax

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84902800029     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/2014_JSLHR-L-12-0225     Document Type: Article

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