Phonology and syntax in French children with SLI: a longitudinal study - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
Journal Articles Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Year : 2007

Phonology and syntax in French children with SLI: a longitudinal study

Christophe Parisse
Christelle Maillart
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 834792

Abstract

Maillart and Parisse (2006) 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 nine 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 present a case 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).
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
article-clp.pdf (153.33 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin Files produced by the author(s)
Loading...

Dates and versions

halshs-00167232 , version 1 (16-08-2007)

Identifiers

Cite

Christophe Parisse, Christelle Maillart. Phonology and syntax in French children with SLI: a longitudinal study. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007, 21 (11&12), pp.945-951. ⟨10.1080/02699200701610634⟩. ⟨halshs-00167232⟩
160 View
405 Download

Altmetric

Share

More