Domain-General Versus Domain-Specific Accounts of Specific Language Impairment: Evidence From Bilingual Children's Acquisition of Object Pronouns
| Autor: | Johanne Paradis, Martha Crago, Fred Genesee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Linguistics and Language
media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Object pronoun Object (grammar) Cognition Specific language impairment Language acquisition medicine.disease Language and Linguistics Linguistics Education Perception medicine Psychology Neuroscience of multilingualism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Language Acquisition. 13:33-62 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7817 1048-9223 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15327817la1301_3 |
| Popis: | In this study, we tested the predictions of 2 opposing perspectives on the nature of the deficit in specific language impairment (SLI): the domain-general, cognitive/ perceptual processing view and the domain-specific, linguistic representational view. Data consisted of spontaneous speech samples from French–English bilingual children with SLI; younger, typically developing, bilingual language peers, and monolingual French comparison groups. We analyzed the children’s use of direct object clitics/pronouns and definite articles in French and English. The bilingual children had more difficulty with clitics in French than articles in French and pronouns in English; and bilingual children with SLI performed like their younger, unaffected bilingual peers and like monolinguals with SLI. We argue that these findings present challenges to the domain-general perspective and support the claim that domain-specific limitations in linguistic representation are a component of SLI. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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