ORBi: Maillart Christelle - Phonological representations of children with SLI : a study of French.

Reference : Phonological representations of children with SLI : a study of French.


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Arts & humanities : Languages & linguistics Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Theoretical & cognitive psychology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/7313

Title :	Phonological representations of children with SLI : a study of French.
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Maillart, Christelle [Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > > > >]
	Schelstraete, Marie-Anne [> > > >]
	Hupet, Michel [> > > >]
Publication date :	2004
Journal title :	Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing research
Publisher :	American Speech Language Hearing Association
Volume :	47
Pages :	187 - 198
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1092-4388
City :	Rockville
Country :	MD
Keywords :	[en] specific language impairment ; SLI ; phonological representations
	[fr] dysphasie ; représentations phonologiques ; phonologie
Abstract :	[en] The present research examined the quality of the phonological representations of French children with specific language impairment (SLI) and those with normal language development (NLD). Twenty-five children with SLI and fifty normally developing children matched on lexical age level participated in an auditory lexical decision task. The observations gathered in our study can be summarized as follows. First, children with a higher receptive lexical level performed better, and this was true both for children with NLD and children with SLI. Second, both children with NLD and SLI were more likely to reject pseudo-words resulting from a modification affecting the number of syllables of a word than pseudo-words resulting from a slight modification with the number of syllables unchanged. This difference, however, was greater for the children with SLI who appeared to have much difficulty rejecting pseudo-words resulting from slight modifications. Finally, the performance of children with SLI was particularly poor when presented with pseudowords resulting from a slight modification at the beginning or the end of a word. These findings are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis of an underspecification of phonological representations in children with SLI.
Research units :	CNCC
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/7313

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