Domain-General versus Domain-Specific Accounts of Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Bilingual Children's Acquisition of Object Pronouns

Autor/inn/en	Paradis, Johanne; Crago, Martha; Genesee, Fred
Titel	Domain-General versus Domain-Specific Accounts of Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Bilingual Children's Acquisition of Object Pronouns
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition, 13 (2006) 1, S.33-62 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1207/s15327817la1301_3
Schlagwörter	Language Impairments; Children; Bilingualism; Form Classes (Languages); French; English; Language Acquisition; Language Processing; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bilingualismus; Analytischer Sprachbau; Französisch; English language; Englisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachverarbeitung
Abstract	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 pre sent challenges to the domain-general perspective and support the claim that domain-specific limitations in linguistic representation are a component of SLI. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10