A processability theory perspective on morphosyntax in school-age children with developmental language disorder.
This study examines the production of morphosyntax in Swedish-speaking children diagnosed with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Data from a Sentence Repetition Task was used to investigate if there is an implicational order according to Processability Theory (PT) in grammatical structures prod...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 140 - 154 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2026
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