A5072388204- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Gender Studies in Language
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Digital Communication and Language
- Employee Welfare and Language Studies
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
Utrecht University
2016-2025
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2020-2024
Netherlands Youth Institute
2020-2024
The Ohio State University
2015-2017
Bridge University
2015-2017
University of Alberta
2010-2017
University of Liverpool
2015-2017
University of Amsterdam
2007-2017
University of Kansas
2015-2017
University of Leeds
2015-2017
Whether bilingual children outperform monolingual on visuospatial and verbal working memory tests was investigated. In addition, relations among proficiency, language use at home, were explored. The Turkish–Dutch (n = 68) in this study raised families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) had smaller Dutch vocabularies than controls 52). Having these characteristics, they are part of an under-researched population. It found that the showed cognitive gains when SES vocabulary controlled,...
A comparison of the error profiles monolingual (child L1) learners Dutch, Moroccan children L2) and adults (adult learning Dutch as their L2 shows that participants in all groups massively overgeneralize [—neuter] articles to [+neuter] contexts. In groups, reverse gender mistake infrequently occurs. Gender expressed by attributive adjectives reveals an age-related asymmetry between three however. Whereas child one particular suffix (namely schwa), adult use both adjectival forms,...
This study was designed to investigate the development of third‐person singular (3SG) – s in children who learn English as a second language (L2). Adopting usage‐based perspective on learning inflection, we analyzed spontaneous speech samples collected from 15 L2 were followed over 2‐year period. Assessing contribution wide range predictors, show that word frequency, allomorph, lexicon size, inflectional properties first (L1), and months exposure all have impact children's use 3SG obligatory...
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive functioning, but other not revealed any effect of bilingualism. In this study we compared three groups in the Netherlands, aged six-to-seven years, with a monolingual control group. We were specifically interested whether cognitive advantage is modulated by sociolinguistic context language use. All exposed to minority besides nation's dominant (Dutch). Two regional (Frisian, Limburgish), and...
Understanding and expressing a narrative's macro-structure is relatively independent of experience in specific language. A narrative task therefore assumed to be less biased method language assessment for bilingual children than many other norm-referenced tests may thus particularly valuable identify impairment (LI) context.The present study aimed investigate the effects LI bilingualism on macrostructural skills. Moreover, it evaluated diagnostic validity within monolingual sample.Five-...
The challenging task of establishing meaningful translanguaging in multilingual classrooms necessitates negotiation between different stakeholders. Such requires investigation the contexts and ways which may be implemented as a suitable teaching strategy. aim current study was to elicit practical pedagogical issues classroom via interviews with three groups stakeholders: language education researchers, teachers, learners. We visited four differently composed high schools from concrete...
This study investigates the language development of 2- to 3-year-old Turkish—Dutch bilingual children with different amounts input quantity. Developmental patterns in spontaneous speech data are compared those monolingual same age. It is found that low quantity leads slower grammatical development, but only if clearly reduced. The observation not mean length utterance also finiteness can show pronounced delays acquisition contradicts maturational views development. However, such overall...
This study evaluated a newly developed quasi-universal nonword repetition task (Q-U NWRT) as diagnostic tool for bilingual children with language impairment (LI) who have Dutch 2nd language. The Q-U NWRT was designed to be minimally influenced by knowledge of 1 specific in contrast language-specific which it compared.One hundred twenty monolingual and without LI participated (30 per group). A mixed-design analysis variance used investigate the effects bilingualism on NWRTs. Receiver...
A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally bilingual is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction cross-linguistic influence what extent. According Interface Hypothesis, morphosyntactic phenomena regulated by discourse–pragmatic conditions likely lead non-native outcomes than strictly syntactic aspects (Sorace, 2011). To test this hypothesis, we examined subject realization placement Greek–English children learning Greek...
This study investigated whether past tense use could differentiate children with language impairment (LI) from their typically developing (TD) peers when English is children's second (L2) and L2 profiles followed the predictions of Bybee's (2007) usage-based network model.A group LI (L2-LI) a matched L2-TD were administered probe Test Early Grammatical Impairment (Rice & Wexler, 2001) Peabody Picture Vocabulary (Dunn Dunn, 1997). A representative input corpus provided distributional...
ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to investigate whether individual difference factors influence the second language (L2) learning children with specific impairment (SLI) and typical development (TD) differently. focuses on tense inflection in English L2 children. roles age acquisition, length exposure, first (L1) were examined. Twenty-four pairs 4- 5-year-old SLI TD participated study. Children's responses third person singular regular past probes Test Early Grammatical Impairment (Rice...
Abstract In this paper, the association between bilingualism and creativity is investigated. first part, results of a literature review are reported. Previous research predominantly found that bilinguals outperform monolinguals on tasks, which was explained by bilinguals’ enhanced executive functioning compared to monolinguals, their experience with multiple cultures. Most previous has examined relationship within psychological trait framework, does not take into account cognitive processes...
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Recent research suggests that cognitive control plays a role in code-switching, both bilingual adults children. Code-switching would only require control, however, when speakers maintain some degree of separation between their two languages, not they completely mix the lexicons grammars languages. For Frisian–Dutch bilinguals, mixing Dutch (majority language) into Frisian (minority is common, but not. Therefore, bilinguals need to language...
Abstract This study investigates the role of parental input quality on acquisition Greek as a heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing subject use, we tested four groups speakers: monolingual children, and parents each one those groups. Participants completed an elicited production task designed to elicit placement wide focus embedded interrogative contexts, where postverbal subjects are preferred/required variety. Results gave rise two main conclusions: first, received by children may...
<title>Abstract</title> This study investigates children’s narrative skills, using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), a theory-based tool adapted to 100 languages. How do overall including use of factual and inferred components, development complete episodes, differ across languages between monolinguals bilinguals? To answer this, we examined 2608 comparable fictional narratives 1189 monolingual bilingual children aged 3-13 years, speaking 33 Children told or...
This article focuses on the meaning of nonfinite clauses (“root infinitives”) in Dutch and English child language. I present experimental naturalistic data confirming claim that root infinitives are more often modal than infinitives. cross-linguistic difference is significantly smaller previously assumed, however. Explaining observations, assume morphology operates separately from syntax semantics (Beard (1982 Beard, R. 1982. “Is Separation Natural,”. Studia Gramatycne, VII: 119–133. [Google...