Does gender make a difference? Comparing the effect of gender on children's comprehension of relative clauses in Hebrew and Italian

A Belletti, N Friedmann, D Brunato, L Rizzi - Lingua, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we assessed the effect of gender morphology on children's comprehension of
object relatives in Hebrew and Italian. We compared headed object relative clauses in which …

The crucial role of thiamine in the development of syntax and lexical retrieval: a study of infantile thiamine deficiency

I Fattal, N Friedmann, A Fattal-Valevski - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This study explored the effect of thiamine deficiency during early infancy on the development
of syntax and lexical retrieval. We tested syntactic comprehension and production, lexical …

[HTML][HTML] Stages rather than ages in the acquisition of movement structures: Data from sentence repetition and 27696 spontaneous clauses

N Friedmann, J Reznick - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
This study explored the order of acquisition of various types of syntactic-movement and
embedding structures in Hebrew, using a sentence-repetition task, in which 60 children …

The comprehension of sentences derived by syntactic movement in Palestinian Arabic speakers with hearing impairment

N Friedmann, M Haddad-Hanna - Applied psycholinguistics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Sentence and text comprehension is known to be difficult for orally trained individuals with
hearing impairment. This study explored the comprehension of several syntactic structures …

Theory of mind in SLI revisited: Links with syntax, comparisons with ASD

S Durrleman, M Burnel, A Reboul - International journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background According to the linguistic determinism approach, knowledge of sentential
complements such as: John says that the earth is flat plays a crucial role in theory of mind …

Depth of vocabulary knowledge in dominant bilingual children with different language profiles: The impact of vocabulary size and verbal working memory

I Dosi, G Siskou, C Dourou - Psychology of Language and …, 2023 - sciendo.com
The current study investigated the depth of vocabulary knowledge (VK) through word
definitions, examining the effect of word characteristics, breadth of VK, and verbal working …

Morphosyntactic abilities of toddlers with hearing impairment and normal hearing: evidence from a sentence‐repetition task

R Novogrodsky, N Meir… - International journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background While considerable research exists on morphosyntax of school‐age children
with hearing impairment (HI), little is known about development of morphosyntax at younger …

Comparison of measures of morphosyntactic complexity in French-speaking school-aged children

C Mimeau, V Plourde, AA Ouellet… - First Language, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the validity and reliability of different measures of morphosyntactic
complexity, including the Morphosyntactic Complexity Scale (MSCS), a novel adaptation of …

Development of complex syntax: From early clause-combining to text-embedded syntactic packaging

RA Berman - … of communication disorders: Theoretical, empirical, and …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Concern in this chapter is with acquisition and development of complex syntax in the
expression of inter-clausal constructions by typically-developing children and adolescents …

Definitional skills of learners with and without developmental language disorder

I Dosi, Z Gavriilidou, C Dourou - International Journal of Learning, Teaching …, 2021 - ijlter.net
Definitions exhibit aspects of mental lexicon organization. Learners with Developmental
Language Disorder (DLD) have limited vocabulary knowledge (in breadth and depth) and …