How early L2 children perform on Italian clinical markers of SLI: A study of clitic production and nonword repetition.
Early second language (EL2) learners generally perform more poorly than monolinguals in specific language domains, presenting similarities with children affected by specific language impairment (SLI). As a consequence, it can be difficult to correctly diagnose this disorder in EL2 children. The curr...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 150 - 170 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2016
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