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Peer reviewedWeismer, Susan Ellis – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Reviews studies that investigated the effects of emphatic stress on novel word learning by children with normal language and those with specific language impairments. The results indicate that use of emphatic stress on modeled target forms improved the children's lexical learning. Implications for language intervention are discussed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Children, Intervention, Language Impairments, Language Processing
