Methods for identifying specific language impairment in bilingual populations in Germany

C Hamann, L Abed Ibrahim - Frontiers in communication, 2017 - frontiersin.org
This study investigates the performance of 22 monolingual and 54 bilingual children with
and without specific language impairment (SLI), in a non-word repetition task (NWRT) and a …

Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

J Lai, A Chan, E Kidd - Brain and Language, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) has been explained as either a deficit
deriving from an abstract representational deficit or as emerging from difficulties in acquiring …

Syntactic complexity in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses in typical language development and autism

S Durrleman, T Marinis, J Franck - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This study investigates effects of syntactic complexity operationalized in terms of movement,
intervention, and noun phrase (NP) feature similarity in the development of Aʹ …

ASD is not DLI: Individuals with autism and individuals with syntactic DLI show similar performance level in syntactic tasks, but different error patterns

N Sukenik, N Friedmann - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Do individuals with autism have a developmental syntactic impairment, DLI (formerly known
as SLI)? In this study we directly compared the performance of 18 individuals with Autism …

No case for Case in locality: Case does not help interpretation when intervention blocks A-bar chains

N Friedmann, L Rizzi, A Belletti - Glossa: a journal of general …, 2017 - glossa-journal.org
We discuss a robust yet at first sight surprising fact: individuals who have problems
understanding sentences with object A-bar movement cannot use overt Case marking of the …

Topics and passives in Italian-speaking children and adults

A Belletti, C Manetti - Language acquisition, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Through two elicited production experiments we investigated how preschool Italian-
speaking children access the left periphery of the clause with respect to topics in Clitic Left …

[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 …

Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder

J Lai, A Chan, E Kidd - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), present in 2 out of every 30 children, affects
primarily oral language abilities and development in the absence of associated biomedical …

Things happen: Individuals with high obsessive–compulsive tendencies omit agency in their spoken language

E Oren, N Friedmann, R Dar - Consciousness and cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
The study examined the prediction that obsessive–compulsive tendencies are related to an
attenuated sense of agency (SoA). As most explicit agency judgments are likely to reflect …

A deficit in movement-derived sentences in German-speaking hearing-impaired children

E Ruigendijk, N Friedmann - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Children with hearing impairment (HI) show disorders in syntax and morphology. The
question is whether and how these disorders are connected to problems in the auditory …