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Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in researchEdited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
► pp. 191–214
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
► pp. 191–214
Quantification in Catalan SLI
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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