Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: Different profiles of syntactic impairment

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Szterman, Ronit ^a   Friedmann, Naama ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hearing impairment; Hebrew; Movement; Reading; Relative clauses; Syntactic impairment; Syntactic tree; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923347876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01229     Document Type: Article

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