The Impact of Lexical Factors on Children's Word-Finding Errors.
This retrospective, exploratory investigation examined the types of target words that 30 children with word-finding difficulties (aged 8 to 12 years) had difficulty naming and the types of errors they made on these words. Words were studied with reference to lexical factors that might influence nami...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 624 - 637 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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