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Children with specific language impairment / Laurence B. Leonard.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Language, speech, and communicationPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, c1998.Description: viii, 339 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0262122065 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.928 55 LEO 21
LOC classification:
  • RJ496.L35 L46 1998
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Contents:
Part 1 Foundations: introduction; characterizing the language deficit - basic concepts. Part 2 Describing the data - linguistic and nonlinguistic findings: the language characteristics of SLI - a detailed look at English; SLI across languages; evidence from nonlinguistic cognitive tasks; auditory processing and speech perception. Part 3 Nature and nurture: the genetics and neurobiology of SLI; the linguistic and communicative environment. Part 4 Clinical issues: problems of differential diagnosis; the nature and efficiency of treatment. Part 5 SLI as a deficit in linguistic knowledge; SLI as a limitation in general processing capacity; SLI as a processing deficit in specific mechanisms. Part 6 Conclusions: why study SLI revisited.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-323) and index.

Part 1 Foundations: introduction; characterizing the language deficit - basic concepts. Part 2 Describing the data - linguistic and nonlinguistic findings: the language characteristics of SLI - a detailed look at English; SLI across languages; evidence from nonlinguistic cognitive tasks; auditory processing and speech perception. Part 3 Nature and nurture: the genetics and neurobiology of SLI; the linguistic and communicative environment. Part 4 Clinical issues: problems of differential diagnosis; the nature and efficiency of treatment. Part 5 SLI as a deficit in linguistic knowledge; SLI as a limitation in general processing capacity; SLI as a processing deficit in specific mechanisms. Part 6 Conclusions: why study SLI revisited.

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