Investigating the underlying causes of SLI: A non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language
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Investigating the underlying causes of SLI: A non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language
There is controversy over the specificity of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), and whether it is caused by a deficit general to cognition or in mechanisms specific to language itself. We argue that evidence to resolve these conflicting positions could come from the study of children who are acquiring sign language and have SLI. Whereas speech is characterized by rapid temporal changes, the ph...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Speech Language Pathology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1441-7049
DOI: 10.1080/14417040600970630