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Specific language impairment in Italian: the first steps in the search for a clinical marker

Umberta Bortolini Centro di Fonetica, CNR, Padua, Italy
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M. Cristina Caselli Istituto di Psicologia, CNR, Rome, Italy
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Patricia Deevy Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Laurence B. Leonard Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Pages 77-93 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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