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Portable Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL): Investigating Language Comprehension in Typically Developing Toddlers and Young Children with Autism

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A comparison of two procedures to elicit verbal auxiliary and copula in normal kindergarten children

D Hughes, J A Till

    The Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
    |August 1, 1982
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