Étude de faisabilité portant sur l’évaluation de la production et de la compréhension du langage oral en français
Children learning French as a first language show morphosyntactic competence even before it is taught to them in elementary school (Marquis, Royle et al. 2012). School-aged French native speakers are also sensitive to semantic and morphosyntactic violations (Courteau, Royle et al. 2013). The purpose of this case study is to test the feasibility of using, in children with specific language impairment (SLI), two tests evaluating morphosyntactic production as well as semantic and morphosyntactic violation detection. We evaluated a five-year-old child without SLI who had completed kindergarten and an eight-year-old child with SLI who had completed his second year of elementary school, using a French “ passé compose ” (perfect past) verb production task (Marquis, Royle et al. 2012), and a semantic and morphosyntactic violation detection task in a visual auditory modality with noun phrases (Royle, 2010). Data analysis confirms the possibility of using these tasks with children who have SLI.
Semantic violations Morphosyntactic violations Language acquisition Specific language impairment