Various accounts have been proposed to explain the deficits found in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Since many of these hypotheses have been evaluated using English speaking subjects, there is an important need for cross-linguistic evidence. In this study, the language of Quebec French speaking language-impaired children was examined in an attempt to provide further information about the nature and characteristics of this impairment. / The research examined the language of ten 7-year-old unilingual French language-impaired children. Their language was compared to language samples elicited from ten 7-year-old and ten 5-year-old normally developing children. Spontaneous language samples were elicited and analyzed in terms of correct use and error type in six linguistic structures: auxiliaries, copulas, verbs, articles, adjectives, and possessive adjectives. The findings were discussed in light of current competing explanatory hypotheses and were found to support hypotheses that suggest that language impairment is at the level of functional categories. Finally, future directions and clinical implications were addressed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.24029 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Methé, Susan |
| Contributors | Crago, Martha (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001529398, proquestno: MM19838, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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