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Developmental dysphasia (or Specific Language Impairment, according to the terminology adopted in the USA) is a pathological condition in which the linguistic disorder is not associated with deficits in other cognitive domains. Indeed, children diagnosed as dysphasic do not follow the normal course of language development but they appear to be normal in all other respects. Moreover, they do not show any neurological sign of brain damage or dysfunction. Morphosyntax and phonology are the linguistic domains most affected: speech production by dysphasic children have an ‘agrammatic’ shape in that function words or morphemes are significantly omitted. Moreover, the learning course is characterized by chronological dissociations; that is, sub-components of grammar that in normal development emerge together may emerge at different times or may not emerge at all.
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Bottari, P., Cipriani, P., Chilosi, A.M. (2000). Dissociations in the Acquisition of Clitic Pronouns by Dysphasic Children: A Case Study from Italian. In: Powers, S.M., Hamann, C. (eds) The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3232-1_10
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