Lexical Diversity and Omission Errors as Predictors of Language Ability in the Narratives of Sequential Spanish-English Bilinguals: A Cross-Language Comparison.
Purpose: This study explored the utility of language sample analysis for evaluating language ability in school-age Spanish-English sequential bilingual children. Specifically, the relative potential of lexical diversity and word/morpheme omission as predictors of typical or atypical language status...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 554 - 566 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Aug2013
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