Morphosyntactic development; French language; Language disorders; Specific language impairment; Développement morphosyntaxique; Langue française; Troubles du développement du langage; Dysphasie; Morphosyntaxe
Abstract :
[en] Children’s morphosyntactic disorders have been studied extensively over the past few years, but mostly in English-speaking children. Recent data on French-speaking children are presented in the current article. There are three key-periods in morphological development : (1) language emergence ; (2) beginning of morphosyntax ; (3) later development. Different morphosyntactic features correspond to each of these periods in the language production of SLI children. The difference between language delay and language disorder is difficult to tease apart in young children. However, as children grow older, it becomes possible to identify characteristics that are specific to children with language disorders and others that are specific to French-speaking SLI children. [fr] Les troubles morphosyntaxiques de l’enfant ont fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches ces dernières années, principalement en langue anglaise. Pourtant, on trouve des données en langue française qui sont présentées dans cet article. Trois moments clés du développement morphosyntaxiques sont envisagés : 1 / émergence du langage ; 2 / démarrage de la morphosyntaxe et 3 / développement ultérieur. Ces moments reflètent les particularités morphosyntaxiques des enfants présentant des troubles de développement du langage (enfants TDL). Nous verrons que, si initialement il est difficile de différencier qualitativement les productions des enfants TDL de celles des enfants présentant un développement normal du langage (DNL), l’étude des enfants plus âgés permet d’observer des erreurs spécifiques à la pathologie langagière, voire même aux enfants TDL francophones.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics Theoretical & cognitive psychology
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