Foreword / Neil O' Connor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language development in Down syndrome -- 3. Exceptional language development in mentally handicapped individuals -- 4. Cognition-language relationships and modularity issues -- 5. A case study -- 6. Theoretical discussion -- 7. General conclusions -- Appendix 1: Speech excerpts -- Appendix 2: English translation of the speech turns used in the linguistic analysis -- Appendix 3: List of active and passive sentences -- Appendix 4: List of sentences with relative subordinates -- Appendix 5: List of sentences with causative and temporal subordinates -- Appendix 6: List of coreferential paragraphs -- Appendix 7: Reading material -- Appendix 8: Written text and dictation -- Appendix 9: Visuographic testing
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