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Peer reviewedRosenberg, Sheldon; Abbeduto, Leonard – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Samples of the communicative behavior of a group of mildly mentally retarded adults were examined for indications of mature linguistic competence (specifically, grammatical morpheme and complex sentence use).Findings confirmed the expectation that the eventual mastery of these aspects of linguistic competence in higher-level retarded individuals…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
