This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate significant language
impairments despite normal-range hearing and nonverbal IQ. Many of these children also …

The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult
speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) …

Young children find (some) object relatives much harder to understand than subject
relatives. The main finding of this article is that not all object relatives are difficult. The …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

Sentence repetition (SRep) tasks have been shown to be very sensitive and specific in
identifying children with language impairment in monolingual populations (Conti-Ramsden …

Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional
frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a …

Research on child bilingualism accounts for differences in the course and the outcomes of
monolingual and different types of bilingual language acquisition primarily from two …

Specific language-impairment (SLI) is a disorder of language acquisition in children who
otherwise appear to be normally developing. Controversy surrounds whether SLI results …