| Phonology and syntax in French children with SLI: a longitudinal study. | |
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PMID: 17972190 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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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). |
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Authors:
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Christophe Parisse; Christelle Maillart |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Clinical linguistics & phonetics Volume: 21 ISSN: 0269-9206 ISO Abbreviation: Clin Linguist Phon Publication Date: 2007 Nov-Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-10-31 Completed Date: 2008-02-19 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8802622 Medline TA: Clin Linguist Phon Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 945-51 Citation Subset: IM |
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INSERM, MoDyCo-CNRS-University Paris, France. parisse@vjf.cnrs.fr |
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Child Child, Preschool Female Follow-Up Studies France Humans Language Disorders / diagnosis* Language Tests Linguistics / methods Male Phonetics* Severity of Illness Index |
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