MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised

The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) is part of LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings). LITMUS is a battery of tests that have been developed in connection with the COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment (2009-2013).

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  2019

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  ZAS papers in linguistics

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  2019-11-26

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  DOI 10.21248/zaspil.63.2019.516
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