yale linguistics


Maria A. Babyonyshev - Teaching

Spring 2008


262b/662b  Topics in Semantics:
Specific Language Impairment


An exploration of the nature of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), a developmental linguistic disorder with a genetic basis, from a linguistic perspective. Topics include precise characterization of the impairment, distinct subtypes of SLI, cross-linguistic variation in SLI, changes in the symptoms of SLI over time, and recent theoretical models of the impairment.

Linguistics at Yale University