Grammatical language impairment and the specificity of cognitive domains: Relations between auditory and language abilities

Cognition

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-183

  Van Der Lely, Heather K J ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^a   Adlard, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory abilities; Grammatical specific language impairment; Language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 9944258424     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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