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What Do Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without SLI Produce When Phonology Is Too Complex?
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de Almeida, Laetitia; Ferré, Sandrine; Barthez, Marie-Anne; dos Santos, Christophe – First Language, 2019
In this study, the authors compare the production of internal codas and branching onsets in four groups of children learning French: monolingual typically-developing children (n = 12), bilingual typically-developing children (n = 61), monolingual children with Specific Language Impairment (n = 17) and bilingual children with Specific Language…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
A Nonword Repetition Task to Assess Bilingual Children's Phonology
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dos Santos, Christophe; Ferré, Sandrine – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are particularly sensitive to phonological complexity in their language. Their performance drops when there are specific phonological structures or when complexity increases. A nonword repetition (NWR) test, which aims to assess the phonology of bilingual speakers with and without SLI, should…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Bilingualism, French, Phonology