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Les déficits phonologiques des enfants francophones ayant des troubles spécifiques de développement du langage
Parisse, Christophe; Maillart, Christelle
2004In Glossa : Cahiers de l'UNADRIO, 89, p. 34-47
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Keywords :
Specific language impairment; phonology; French; Dysphasie; phonologie; Troubles de développement du langage; Français; Troubles spécifiques du langage
Abstract :
[en] This study investigated the phonological expressive disorders of Frenchspeaking children with SLI. The main goal of this paper was to confirm whether children with SLI have limitations in phonological ability even when they are compared with normally-developing children matched by MLU and phonemic inventory size. This was demonstrated by Bortoloni and Leonard (2000), Orsolini et coll. (2001), and Aguilar-Mediavilla et coll. (2002), which obtained the most detailed results in this direction, but it was never tested in French language. The second goal of the paper is to find out whether the characteristics of the French language are reflected in the nature of the children’s phonological disorder. In order to test this, the spontaneous language of 16 children with SLI and of 16 control children matched on MLU and phonemic inventory size (NLD group) was analysed using different measures bearing on utterances, words, syllables, or phonemes. In both SLI and NLD groups, the children were distributed in two different subgroups, on the basis of their MLU and phonemic inventory size. The results supported a specific limitation in the phonological abilities of French children with SLI, as was already demonstrated for English, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish-Catalan. However, two unexpected results were also obtained. Firstly, a significant difference between children with SLI and control children could only be found for older children (MLU above 3), not for younger children with MLU below 3. This was true for all measures. This finding stresses out the importance of having a development perspective and has to be confirmed with longitudinal design. Secondly, deficits were much more important at the phoneme level than at the syllable level. This can be explained by the fact that the French language has a very homogenous pronunciation of syllables, which makes them easier to segment.
Research center :
CNCC
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Parisse, Christophe
Maillart, Christelle  ;  Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > CODE
Language :
English
Title :
Les déficits phonologiques des enfants francophones ayant des troubles spécifiques de développement du langage
Alternative titles :
[en] Phonological disorders of French speaking children with specific language impairment
Publication date :
2004
Journal title :
Glossa : Cahiers de l'UNADRIO
ISSN :
0298-6477
eISSN :
2117-7155
Publisher :
Union Nationale pour le Développement de la Recherche et de l'Evaluation en Orthophonie (UNADRIO), Paris, France
Volume :
89
Pages :
34-47
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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