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Article Dans Une Revue Research in Developmental Disabilities Année : 2014

The sentence repetition task: A powerful diagnostic tool for French children with specific language impairment

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This study assesses the diagnostic accuracy and construct validity of a sentence repetition task that is commonly used for the identification of French children with specific language impairment (SLI). Thirty-four school-aged children with a confirmed, diagnostically based diagnosis of SLI, and 34 control children matched on age and nonverbal abilities performed the sentence repetition task. Two general scoring measures took into account the verbatim repetition of the sentence and the number of words accurately repeated. Moreover, five other scoring measures were applied to their answers in order to separately take into account their respect of lexical items, functional items, syntax, verb morphology, and the general meaning of the sentence. Results show good to high levels of sensitivity and specificity at the three cut-off points for all scoring measures. A principal component analysis revealed two factors. Scoring measures for the respect of functional words, syntax and verb morphology provided the largest loadings to the first factor, while scoring measures for the respect of lexical words and general semantics provided the largest loadings to the second factor. Sentence repetition appears to be a valuable tool to identify SLI in French children, and the ability to repeat sentences correctly is supported by two factors: a morphosyntactic factor and a lexical factor.

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hal-02078248 , version 1 (25-03-2019)

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Anne-Lise Leclercq, Pauline Quemart, David Magis, Christelle Maillart. The sentence repetition task: A powerful diagnostic tool for French children with specific language impairment. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2014, 35 (12), pp.3423-3430. ⟨10.1016/j.ridd.2014.08.026⟩. ⟨hal-02078248⟩

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