Quantification in Catalan SLI
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Anna Gavarró
Abstract
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.
Abstract
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.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- The Genetics of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) 7
- Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia 35
- Is there an overlap between Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia? New insights from French 57
- Comparing SLI and dyslexia: developmental language profiles and reading outcomes 89
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is not specific enough: Sub-types of SLI and their implications for the theory of the disorder 113
- Memory profiles of children with SLI 125
- The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek 145
- Null Subjects in Monolingual and Bilingual, Typical and Atypical Development 175
- Quantification in Catalan SLI 191
- Specific Language Impairment in German Children 215
- The acquisition of past tense by Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment 253
- Theory Motivated Therapy Studies of SLI 287
- Index 319
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- The Genetics of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) 7
- Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia 35
- Is there an overlap between Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia? New insights from French 57
- Comparing SLI and dyslexia: developmental language profiles and reading outcomes 89
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is not specific enough: Sub-types of SLI and their implications for the theory of the disorder 113
- Memory profiles of children with SLI 125
- The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek 145
- Null Subjects in Monolingual and Bilingual, Typical and Atypical Development 175
- Quantification in Catalan SLI 191
- Specific Language Impairment in German Children 215
- The acquisition of past tense by Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment 253
- Theory Motivated Therapy Studies of SLI 287
- Index 319
