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Direct linkEigsti, Inge-Marie; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Science, 2004
Although child maltreatment has often been described as leading to language deficits, the few well-controlled investigations of language acquisition in maltreated children have focused on language content rather than form, or have used qualitative rather than quantitative measures. This study examines syntactic complexity in 19 maltreated and 14…
Descriptors: Investigations, Child Abuse, Delayed Speech, Syntax
