The study investigates the appropriateness of the French and German LITMUS–Sentence Repetition (LITMUS–SR) and the LITMUS–Quasi–Universal–Nonword–Repetition task (LITMUS–QU–NWR) for the assessment of bilingual children with diverse language backgrounds. We examine the quantitative and qualitative… read more
The article provides an overview of linguistic research on SLI in German,
concentrating on linguistic markers and accounts of the underlying deficit. It
focuses on verbal morpho-syntax and verb placement, characteristic difficulties
in German SLI. It argues, however, that the difficulties also… read more
The present study investigates spontaneous production of 4 groups of typically developing French speaking children (TD6, TD8, TD11, TD14) and a group of French children with specific language impairment (SLI) with focus on the production of types of relative clauses and the occurrence of… read more
A travers l’analyse des résultats de récentes recherches, ce chapitre présente un survol de l’acquisition typique (et parfois atypique) de la syntaxe en français. Par ailleurs, plusieurs théories génératives concernant le développement du langage sont évaluées au regard des données. L’attention est… read more