The present research examined the quality of the phonological representations of French
children with specific language impairment (SLI) and those with normal language
development (NLD). Twenty-five children with SLI and 50 children with NLD matched on
lexical age level participated in an auditory lexical decision task. The observations gathered
in our study can be summarized as follows. First, children with a higher receptive lexical
level performed better, and this was true both for children with NLD and children with SLI …

It has been hypothesized that children with specific language impairment (SLI) have difficulty
processing sound-based information, including storing and accessing phonological
representations in the lexicon. Tasks are emerging in the literature that provide a measure of
the quality of stored phonological representations, without requiring a verbal response. This
article describes the performance of children with specific language impairment (SLI)(n= 21),
typically developing children matched for age (n= 21), and typically developing children …