Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals

J Paradis - Journal of Child Language, 2023 - cambridge.org
Bilingual children are a more heterogenous group than their monolingual counterparts with
respect to the sources of variation in their language learning environments, as well as the …

Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada

A Asli-Badarneh, K Hipfner-Boucher… - International …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: The study investigated narrative microstructure skills of Arabic-
speaking immigrant children in Canada (N= 75; age range 7–12 years) with specific focus …

The role of socioemotional wellbeing difficulties and adversity in the L2 acquisition of first-generation refugee children

J Paradis, A Soto-Corominas, I Vitoroulis… - Bilingualism …, 2022 - cambridge.org
First-generation refugee children often experience pre-and post-migration adversity and
display high levels of mental health/wellbeing difficulties, but to date, research has not …

Different variables hold varying significance from childhood to adolescence: Exploring individual differences in grammar development of Japanese heritage speakers

M Kubota, Y Goto, S Kurokawa, Y Matsuoka… - Studies in Second …, 2025 - cambridge.org
The current study examined the comprehension and production of classifiers, case marking,
and morphological passive structures among 414 child Japanese heritage speakers (mean …

Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin

J Hao, M Kubota, F Bayram… - Second Language …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Mandarin sortal classifiers simultaneously encode semantic and grammatical form class
cues. Building on a second language (L2) study of Grüter et al. we used the same visual …

Bilingual Adolescents' Complex Syntax Production in Both Languages Across Conversational and Expository Contexts

EJ Rioux, E Thordardottir - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Bilingual development has been shown to be highly dependent on language-
specific exposure. This study extended the study of bilingual development to adolescence …

[HTML][HTML] Parents' and Children's Emotional Well-Being and Language Beliefs in Heritage Bilingual Families

P Bonifacci, C Borghetti, M Cangelosi - European Journal of Investigation …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The present study aimed to examine how parents' psychological characteristics and positive
beliefs about multilingualism predict children's emotional well-being in 51 multilingual …

The effects of language input on word order in German as a heritage and majority language

A Sopata, K Długosz - Language Acquisition, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study addresses the question of how the main factors related to input—including the
environment in which children are exposed to both languages, the relative timing of the …

The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study

J Paradis, A Soto-Corominas, E Daskalaki… - Journal of Child …, 2025 - cambridge.org
The Arabic development of Syrian refugee children (N= 133; mean age= 9; 4 at Time 1) was
examined over 3 time periods during their first five years in Canada. Children were …

The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic

E Daskalaki, A Soto-Corominas, A Barisé… - Applied …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier
than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by …