In:Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
► pp. 191–214
Quantification in Catalan SLI
Published online: 11 August 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.58.09gav
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.58.09gav
In recent years researchers have pointed out various domains in which children
with SLI differ from typically developing children. However, the language
faculty is not compromised as a whole in SLI. In this paper we consider an area
that appears to be spared: knowledge of quantification. We compare the performance
of a group of 40 TD Catalan-speaking children and 7 Catalan-speaking
children with SLI in two truth-value judgement tasks testing knowledge of the
universal quantifiers tots ‘all’ and cada ‘each’ in distributive and cumulative contexts.
Although often in the lower range of performance, the children with SLI
do not perform differently from TD children of the same age.
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