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Nonword Repetition and Sentence Imitation as Clinical Markers for Primary Language Impairment in bilingual French-English- and English-French-speaking children in Northern Ontario

open access: yesDiversity of Research in Health Journal, 2017
Studies indicate that nonword repetition and sentence imitation are useful tools when assessing bilingual children. Bilingual children with primary language impairment (PLI) typically score lower on these two tasks than their typically developing ...
Sara Dubreuil-Piché   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a description of trilingual competence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Most studies involving trilingualism have been carried out within the theoretical framework of bilingualism research. No attempt has been made to delimit trilingualism as a concept in its own right, and often it has been assumed to be an extension of ...
Hoffmann, C
core   +2 more sources

Prerequisites of Third-Person Pronoun Use in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism and Typical Language Development

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The current study investigated the production of third-person subject and object pronouns in monolingual and bilingual children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and typical language development (TLD). Furthermore, it evaluated the underlying linguistic
Natalia Meir, Rama Novogrodsky
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Perceived Accentedness in Monolingual and Simultaneous Bilingual Children

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2021
Previous research on accentedness in simultaneous bilinguals has produced inconsistent results and has focused on adult speakers. The current study explores the question of whether simultaneous bilingual children are perceived to have stronger accents in
Cambria Willis   +2 more
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Language Distance Moderates the Effect of a Mixed-Language Environment on New-Word Learning for 4-Year-Old Children

open access: yesBrain Sciences
As bilingual families increase, the phenomenon of language mixing among children in mixed-language environments has gradually attracted academic attention.
Zhengkai Niu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relative clauses in English-Mandarin bilingual children: Language transfer and development in Singapore [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The role of cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children’s development remains a matter of debate. Some researchers have proposed that simultaneously bilingual learners develop the linguistic systems of two languages in the same way as matched ...
Matthews, SJ, Yan, J
core   +1 more source

The development of early expressive vocabulary in children with Down Syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A delay in expressive language in children with Down Syndrome (DS) is common, and often a major challenge of the condition. This study aimed to investigate the early expressive vocabulary skills of Maltese children with DS, whose first languages were ...
10.14614/VOCDOWNSYND/4/15   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of phonological structure: evidence from Polish–English bilingual children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study examines the production of consonant clusters in simultaneous Polish-English bilingual children and in language-matched English monolinguals (aged 7;01- 8;11).
Jones, G   +3 more
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Relationship between Bilingual Experience and Cognitive Control of Bilingual Children

open access: yesDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
There has been growing interest in how different dimensions of bilingual experience relate to cognitive abilities within the bilingual group. However, this interest rarely targeted data from young bilingual children who lack sufficient language ...
Xiaowei GONG   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Marking and Clitic Pronoun Resolution in Simultaneous Bilingual Children

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The acquisition of clitics still remains a highly controversial issue in Greek acquisition literature despite the bulk of studies performed. Object clitics have been shown to be early acquired by monolingual children in terms of production rates, whereas
Vasiliki Koukoulioti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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