title: [Language acquisition in preterm infants during the first year of life].
abstract: Previous studies have shown that preterm children are at a higher risk for cognitive and language delays than full-term children. Most of these studies have concentrated on the effects of prematurity during the preschool or school years, while the effect of preterm birth on the early development of language, much of which occurs during the first year of life, remains very little explored. This article focuses on this crucial period and reviews the studies that have explored early phonological and lexical development in preterm infants. The results of these studies show uneven proficiency in different language subdomains in preterm infants. This raises the possibility that different constraints apply to the acquisition of different linguistic subcomponents in this population, in part as a result of a complex interaction between maturation, experience, and language subdomains.
authors: Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France; Laboratoire psychologie de la perception, CNRS, institut pluridisciplinaire des Saints-Pères, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France. Electronic address: thierry.nazzi@parisdescartes.fr.
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Nazzi
authors: Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France.
authors: L L
authors: LL
authors: Nishibayashi
authors: Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France.
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Berdasco-Muñoz
authors: Service de réanimation et de pédiatrie néonatales, hôpital Robert-Debré, 75019 Paris, France.
authors: O
authors: O
authors: Baud
authors: Service de réanimation et de pédiatrie néonatales, hôpital Robert-Debré, 75019 Paris, France.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Biran
authors: Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France; Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Royaume-Uni.
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Gonzalez-Gomez
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology*; D007804:Language Development; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D010700:Phonetics