Research Publications (Linguistics)
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- 6Language acquisition
- 3Bilingualism
- 3Language impairments
- 3Second language learning
- 2Children
- 2Comparative analysis
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2007
Bilingualism is often considered an inappropriate developmental choice for children with specific language impairment (SLI) because, according to a widespread belief, these children’s limited capacity for language would be overtaxed by learning two linguistic systems. However, there has not been...
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2018-03-01
Paradis, Johanne, Govindarajan, Krithika, Hernandez, Keren
The home language environment and language abilities were compared between children with ASD and children with typical development, both from newcomer families. Children were in elementary school, mostly 6 and 7 year olds. The goal was to understand if there were differences in bilingual...
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Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Persian-English bilinguals
Download2009
Foroodi-Nejad, F., Paradis, J.
Crosslinguistic transfer in bilingual language acquisition has been widely reported in various linguistic domains (e.g., D¨opke, 1998; Nicoladis, 1999; Paradis, 2001). In this study we examined structural overlap (D¨opke, 2000; M¨uller and Hulk, 2001) and dominance (Yip and Matthews, 2000) as...
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Lexical acquisition over time in minority first language children learning English as a second language
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Paradis, J., Crago, M., Goldberg, H.
The English second language development of 19 children (mean age at outset = 5 years, 4 months) from various first language backgrounds was examined every 6 months for 2 years, using spontaneous language sampling, parental questionnaires, and a standardized receptive vocabulary test. Results...
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The acquisition of tense in English: Distinguishing child second language from first language and specific language impairment
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Crago, M., Marquis, J., Rice, M.L., Paradis, J.
This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2), and specific language impairment (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain whether the L2 children’s tense acquisition patterns were...