Stavrakaki Stavroula, Chrysomallis Marie-Annick, Petraki Evangelia
Department of Italian Literature and Linguistics, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2011 May;25(5):339-67. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2010.538954.
In this study we investigate the linguistic performance of a school age French-Greek simultaneous bilingual boy with specific language impairment (SLI) on the production of subject-verb agreement, object clitic pronouns and wh-questions. In addition, we compare his performance on these linguistic structures with that of two French-Greek bilingual children with typical development matched on language age. Furthermore, we discuss the performance of the child with SLI in the light of published data from monolingual French and Greek school-age children with SLI, as reported in the relevant literature. The results indicated that the performance of the bilingual French-Greek-speaking child with SLI was highly comparable to that of bilingual French-Greek typically developing children and monolingual children with SLI speaking French or Greek. In addition, the results revealed a language effect on the performance of the bilingual child with SLI on subject-verb agreement, object clitics and wh-questions. We adopt a comparative linguistic approach to interpret the results and argue that the specific linguistic properties of Greek and French were significant determinants for the manifestation of SLI in each language. We suggest that bilingualism per se did not aggravate the language deficits in this child with SLI. Finally, we discuss the clinical implications of our study for language intervention in bilingual individuals with SLI.
在本研究中，我们调查了一名患有特定语言障碍（SLI）的学龄期法希同时双语男孩在主谓一致、宾语代词和wh-疑问句生成方面的语言表现。此外，我们将他在这些语言结构上的表现与两名语言年龄匹配的法希双语发育正常儿童的表现进行了比较。此外，我们根据相关文献中报道的单语法语和希腊语学龄期SLI儿童的已发表数据，讨论了患有SLI的儿童的表现。结果表明，患有SLI的法希双语儿童的表现与法希双语发育正常儿童以及单语法语或希腊语SLI儿童的表现高度可比。此外，结果显示语言对患有SLI的双语儿童在主谓一致、宾语代词和wh-疑问句方面的表现有影响。我们采用比较语言学方法来解释结果，并认为希腊语和法语的特定语言特性是每种语言中SLI表现的重要决定因素。我们认为双语本身并未加重这名患有SLI的儿童的语言缺陷。最后，我们讨论了本研究对患有SLI的双语个体语言干预的临床意义。
