Differentiating Cantonese-Speaking Preschool Children With and Without SLI Using MLU and Lexical Diversity (D)
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Differentiating Cantonese-speaking preschool children with and without SLI using MLU and lexical diversity (D).
PURPOSE In this study, the authors examined the diagnostic accuracy of a composite clinical assessment measure based on mean length of utterance (MLU), lexical diversity (D), and age (Klee, Stokes, Wong, Fletcher, & Gavin, 2004) in a second, independent sample of 4-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). METHOD The composite measure was calcul...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1092-4388,1558-9102
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0195)