Making inferences from text: It’s vocabulary that matters

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1224-1232

  Lucas, Rebecca ^a   Norbury, Courtenay Frazier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84939555734     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: 15589102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0330     Document Type: Article

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