{"title":"Lexical diversity in bilingual speakers of Croatian and Italian","authors":"Gordana Hržica, Maja Roch","doi":"10.1075/tilar.29.04hrz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.29.04hrz","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127510006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memory","authors":"N. Meir","doi":"10.1075/LAB.15033.MEI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LAB.15033.MEI","url":null,"abstract":"The current study assessed independent and combined effects of SLI and bilingualism on tasks tapping into verbal short-term memory (vSTM) with varying linguistic load in two languages (Russian and Hebrew). The study explored the extent to which the presence of SLI is related to limited vSTM storage and bilingualism is associated with reduced vocabulary size. A total of 190 monolingual and bilingual children aged 5;5–6;8 participated in the current study: 108 sequential Russian-Hebrew bilinguals (18 with SLI), 48 Hebrew monolinguals (13 with SLI) and 34 Russian monolinguals (14 with SLI). Children performed three repetition tasks: forward-digit span (FWD), non-word repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition (SRep); bilingual children were tested in both of their languages. Results indicated a negative effect of SLI on all experimental tasks tapping into vSTM. The effect of SLI rose as a function of increased linguistic load. Regarding bilingualism, no effect was found on the measure of vSTM with the lowest linguistic load (FWD), while its effect was robust once the linguistic load was increased (SRep). The results reported in this study bring evidence that lower performance on measures of vSTM in children with SLI and bilingual children stem from different sources. Although, children with SLI have limitations of vSTM, deficient vSTM cannot fully account for the linguistic difficulties observed in children with SLI. As for bilingualism, it does not affect verbal storage when the linguistic load is minimal, while poor performance in bilingual children on tasks with greater linguistic load is attributed to smaller vocabulary sizes.","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116316681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia Gagarina, S. Fichman, E. Galkina, E. Protassova, Natalia Ringblom, Yulia Rodina
{"title":"How oral texts are organized in monolingual and heritage Russian","authors":"Natalia Gagarina, S. Fichman, E. Galkina, E. Protassova, Natalia Ringblom, Yulia Rodina","doi":"10.1075/tilar.29.02gag","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.29.02gag","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"336 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124720458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time","authors":"T. Boerma, E. Blom","doi":"10.1075/tilar.29.10boe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.29.10boe","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128892047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A case study of a quadrilingual child","authors":"G. Håkansson, Birgitta Waters","doi":"10.1075/tilar.29.03hak","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.29.03hak","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"277 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116851536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laetitia de Almeida, Sandrine Ferré, Eléonore Morin, P. Prévost, Christophe dos Santos, Laurie Tuller, Racha Zebib, M. Barthez
{"title":"Identification of bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment in France","authors":"Laetitia de Almeida, Sandrine Ferré, Eléonore Morin, P. Prévost, Christophe dos Santos, Laurie Tuller, Racha Zebib, M. Barthez","doi":"10.1075/LAB.15019.ALM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LAB.15019.ALM","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the usefulness of three LITMUS tools in distinguishing bilingual children with SLI (Bi-SLI) from bilingual children with typical development (Bi-TD), in France: LITMUS-NWR-FR (non-word repetition), LITMUS-SR-FR (sentence repetition), and LITMUS-PABIQ (parental questionnaire). 82 bilingual children, aged 5–8, who had all been exposed to both French and either Arabic, Portuguese or Turkish, recruited both in ordinary schools and in SLP practices, were divided into Bi-TD ( n = 61) and Bi-SLI ( n = 21) groups based on parental questionnaire (LITMUS-PABIQ) information and standardized language scores in each language. Monolingual controls included 17 children with SLI and 37 TD children. NWR and SR significantly distinguished between the Bi-TD and the Bi-SLI children, and there was minimal impact of different factors related to bilingual development on children’s performance.","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127667980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Solveig Chilla, C. Hamann, P. Prévost, Lina Abed Ibrahim, Sandrine Ferré, Christophe dos Santos, Racha Zebib, Laurice Tuller
{"title":"The influence of different first languages on LITMUS nonword-repetition and sentence repetition in second language French and second language German","authors":"Solveig Chilla, C. Hamann, P. Prévost, Lina Abed Ibrahim, Sandrine Ferré, Christophe dos Santos, Racha Zebib, Laurice Tuller","doi":"10.1075/tilar.29.08chi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.29.08chi","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134485201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stanislava Antonijević-Elliott, R. Durham, Íde Ní Chonghaile
{"title":"Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition task","authors":"Stanislava Antonijević-Elliott, R. Durham, Íde Ní Chonghaile","doi":"10.1075/LAB.15026.ANT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LAB.15026.ANT","url":null,"abstract":"Currently there are no standardized language assessments for English-Irish bilingual school age children that would test languages in a comparable way. There are also no standardized language assessments of Irish for this age group. The current study aimed to design comparable language assessments in both languages targeting structures known to be challenging for children with language impairments. A sentence repetition (SRep) task equivalent to the English SRep task ( Marinis, Chiat, Armon-Lotem, Piper, & Roy, 2011 ) was designed for Irish. Twenty-four typically developing, sequential bilingual children immersed in Irish in the educational setting performed better on the English SRep task than on the Irish SRep task. Different patterns were observed in language performance across sentence types with performance on relative clauses being particularly poor in Irish. Similarly, differences were observed in error patterns with the highest number of errors of omission in Irish, and the highest number of substitution errors in English.","PeriodicalId":218065,"journal":{"name":"Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125115236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}