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Phonology and syntax in French children with SLI: A longitudinal study
Parisse, Christophe; Maillart, Christelle
2007In Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21 (11-12, NOV-DEC), p. 945-951
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Keywords :
specific language disorder; phonological impairment; syntactic impairment; longitudinal study; French language; dysphasie
Abstract :
[en] Maillart and Parisse found out that French children with specific language impairment (SLI) presented strong difficulties in phonology when compared with normally-developing children matched by MLU (NLD). Some of the youngest children from this study were followed to provide developmental information about their language deficit. Children were tested again in the same way as before (free spontaneous production) and matched by MLU against other NLD children. The previous phonological analysis was extended to include syntax as well as phonology. Percentage of words correct was computed for both phonology and syntax. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was performed with children's age as covariate. Results showed a significant difference between SLI and NLD children for phonology but not for syntax. There was a trend that showed that the difference between SLI and NLD children tended to increase with age. The same analysis was performed separately for 9 frequent syntactic categories for phonology and for syntax. A significant difference was found for prepositions, nouns, subject pronouns, and verbs in phonology. Effects were found for determiners and prepositions in syntax. As well as confirming the importance of phonological difficulties in SLI, our results call for a developmental theory of phonological and syntactic deficits in SLI, where differences between SLI and NLD grow with age and where there is a timing difference between phonology (earlier) and syntax (later).
Research center :
CNCC
Disciplines :
Orthopedics, rehabilitation & sports medicine
Languages & linguistics
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Parisse, Christophe
Maillart, Christelle  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psych. clinique des troubles développementaux du langage
Language :
English
Title :
Phonology and syntax in French children with SLI: A longitudinal study
Publication date :
2007
Journal title :
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
ISSN :
0269-9206
eISSN :
1464-5076
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, United Kingdom
Volume :
21
Issue :
11-12, NOV-DEC
Pages :
945-951
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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