title: [Relation between phonologic and pragmatic habilities in specific language impairment].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Specific language impairment.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To establish relations between the performance of subjects in phonologic and pragmatic tests.
  
  
  METHODS
  Tabulation and analyses of the data of phonologic and pragmatic tests of 20 children with ages raging from 3:0 to 5:11 years, with the diagnoses of Specific Language Impairment (SLI).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The statistic analyses showed good correlations between developmental processes (DP) and non-developmental processes (NDP), DP and the use of verbal mean, vocal mean and number of communication acts per minute.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The performance in the phonological and pragmatic tests does not seem to have a direct correlation in subjects with specific language impairment.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). dmblopes@usp.br
authors.forename: Debora Maria
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Befi-Lopes
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: de Araujo
authors.forename: Elisabete
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Giusti
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary