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Referential Cohesion in the Narratives of Bilingual and Monolingual Children with Typically Developing Language and with Specific Language Impairment
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Fichman, Sveta; Altman, Carmit – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The study explores referential cohesion in the narratives of bilingual preschool children with typical language development (TLD) and with specific language impairment (SLI). Referential cohesion requires integration of multiple discourse factors and is expected to pose a challenge for children with bilingual SLI due to weak proficiency…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Story Telling, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
Reference to Characters in Narratives of Russian-Hebrew Bilingual and Russian and Hebrew Monolingual Children with Developmental Language Disorder and Typical Language Development
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Fichman, Sveta; Walters, Joel; Melamed, Ravit; Altman, Carmit – First Language, 2022
This research analyzed adequacy of referential expressions in the narratives of bilingual and monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical language development (TLD), aiming to shed light on the relative contribution of morpho-syntactic, discourse-pragmatic, and semantic constraints. Narratives were collected from 51…
Descriptors: Russian, Semitic Languages, Preschool Children, Story Telling