Comprehension of verb morphology in Arabic-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder.
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with a range of morphosyntactic skills, particularly with tense and subject – verb agreement. Many studies have examined verb-morphology production in children with DLD. We extend this line of research by profiling verb-morp...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 39; no. 6-8; pp. 677 - 704 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun-Aug2025
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