Pathological corpus analysis of a patient with oral Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

Abstract

In this article, we analyzed a pathological corpus of a case suffering from Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (formerly called dysphasia), to know its ability to use language for communication purposes, after differential diagnosis and application of language test (Chevrie-Muller), which showed that the case at a language level corresponding to a child age 5. Following a referential dialogue, we collected and analyzed the corpus that it produced in different levels of language: phonetic, phonological, lexical and semantic, syntactic and grammatical, discursive and pragmatic. The results show that the case suffers from difficulties at all levels, but the pragmatic level is the most disturbed.