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2007

Paradis, J.

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...

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...

09/20/2021

Paradis, Johanne C

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research proposes to take a tripartite approach to understanding the sources of successes and challenges in the bilingual development of Special Education Needs (SENs). Research will take place in Ottawa and Edmonton; Research in the non-elective bilingual and elective...

1974

Cummins, Jim

2018-05-26

Asirvatham, Sulochana R.

So I start with a simple observation, which is that Dio occasionally comments on the Greek and Latin bilingualism of emperors. Marcus Aurelius is the one that originally caught my eye, and I think it’s interesting to chew on because although I admit that I have not read every single piece of...

1978

Hammer, Petra

Fall 2018

Karaca, Figen

This thesis investigated the comprehension of evidentiality in Turkish heritage speakers and first generation immigrants, in comparison to monolingual speakers using a self-paced listening task. The question of how individual differences, such as the speakers’ proficiency and language environment...

2009

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...

2010-01-01

Marentette, P., Laurent, A., Nicoladis, E.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of linguistic dominance on gesture use in bilingual children. Twenty bilingual children aged between 6 and 10 years old were split into two groups regarding their familiarity with storytelling and were videotaped when they told back the...

2000

Genesee, F., Nicoladis, E., Paradis, J.

Does young bilingual children's code-mixing obey the same structural constraints as bilingual adults' code-mixing? The present study addresses this question using code-mixing data from 15 French±English bilingual children ®lmed in conversation with both parents at six-month intervals from the age...