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Towards the identification of linguistic characteristics of specific language impairment in Persian

  • Author / Creator
    Foroodi Nejad, Farzaneh
  • Studies on specific language impairment (SLI) have identified specific aspects of language as particularly vulnerable. However, a picture of relative strengths and weaknesses characterizing SLI in Persian has not been established. This dissertation aims at the identification of linguistic characteristics of SLI in Persian-speaking children. It focuses on language abilities at 2 levels: at one level it explores areas of difficulty at higher-level component of language such as narratives (i.e., first mentions, story grammar) and at the other level, it examines the difficulties within a lower-level component of language such as morphosyntax (i.e case marking, object clitics). Elicited speech samples were collected from 9 Persian-speaking children with SLI as well as 16 TD children matched on age. Children with SLI scored lower than age-matched children on all of these measures. These findings are consistent with accounts that assume processing limitation in children with SLI, such as the morphological richness hypothesis.

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  • Graduation date
    Fall 2011
  • Type of Item
    Thesis
  • Degree
    Doctor of Philosophy
  • DOI
    https://doi.org/10.7939/R36047
  • License
    This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.