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Word-finding difficulties in French-speaking children with SLI: a case STUDY.

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Bragard, Anne [UCL] Schelstraete, Marie-Anne [UCL]

This study presents the case of a 9-year-old boy, Jeoffrey, with word-finding difficulties. In an attempt to investigate the cause(s) of these difficulties, an in-depth evaluation of his semantic and phonological skills was carried out, in which lexical and phonological variables such as age of acquisition or phonological complexity were controlled. Jeoffrey's performance was compared to a child matched for age. Although Jeoffrey showed no apparent phonological deficit, our results revealed deficits in semantic processes. We argue that this boy's word-finding difficulties are the result of imprecise and unspecified semantic representations. Therefore, as this case demonstrates, it is essential to determine the origin(s) of children's word-finding difficulties, which could be different and specific for each child presenting such a lexical deficit.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Case Reports, Journal Article
Publication date 2007
Journal information "Clinical linguistics & phonetics" - Vol. 21, no. 11-12, p. 927-34 (2007)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0269-9206
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - PSP/PSP - faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
UCL - PSP/PSP - faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
MESH Subject Child ; France ; Humans ; Judgment ; Language Disorders - diagnosis ; Male ; Phonetics ; Semantics ; Vocabulary
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Bibliographic reference Bragard, Anne ; Schelstraete, Marie-Anne. Word-finding difficulties in French-speaking children with SLI: a case STUDY.. In: Clinical linguistics & phonetics, Vol. 21, no. 11-12, p. 927-34 (2007)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/11173