Lexical Diversity Versus Lexical Error in the Language Transcripts of Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Different Conclusions About Lexical Ability.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary data on differences in lexical diversity and lexical-semantic errors in the language samples of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and children with typical language development (TLD) of the same age. Method: We analyzed...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1275 - 1283 |
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