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Aspects of grammatical development in young French children with SLI
Author(s) -
Hamann Cornelia,
Ohayon Stéphanie,
Dubé Sébastien,
Frauenfelder Ulrich H.,
Rizzi Luigi,
Starke Michal,
Zesiger Pascal
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
developmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.801
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1467-7687
pISSN - 1363-755X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7687.00265
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , pace , language development , specific language impairment , linguistics , complement (music) , philosophy , chemistry , geodesy , complementation , gene , geography , biochemistry , phenotype
This paper presents an exploratory study of the spontaneous production of 11 French children clinically diagnosed as specific language impaired (SLI). In a cross‐sectional study of the children under and over 5 years of age, we investigate the production of finite and non‐finite verbal forms, of sentences with overt and null subjects, and of pronominal clitics. A comparison between younger and older children with SLI highlights developmental patterns which parallel normal syntactic development in important respects, though at a slower pace. An area of difficulty which clearly persists for the older group involves the domain of pronominal complement clitics.