Natalia Meir
List of John Benjamins publications in which Natalia Meir is involved.
2025 Heritage speaker pragmatics: The interplay of Russian and Hebrew in request formation Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:2, pp. 243–274 | Article
The current study investigated request production in Russian as a Heritage language (HL), with a special focus on the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) of the majority societal language (here SL-Hebrew) and Age of Onset of Bilingualism (AOB). Ninety-seven adult participants were recruited… read more
2025 An attempt to identify language-universal and language-specific patterns in the use of filled pauses and prolongations: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual speakers of Russian, Hebrew, and Mandarin Chinese Journal of Second Language Studies 9:1, pp. 1–44 | Article
This study examines filled pauses and prolongations in Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew by comparing monolingual and bilingual speakers to identify both universal and language-specific disfluency patterns. Data were collected from monologues produced by monolinguals and two bilingual… read more
2025 Grammatical gender systems in the bilingual mental lexicon: Evidence from gender assignment in Russian-Hebrew code-switching The Mental Lexicon 20:1, pp. 37–66 | Article
This study explores gender assignment strategies in Russian-Hebrew code-mixed adjective-noun phrases. Russian features a three-gender system (masculine, feminine, neuter), while Hebrew uses a two-gender system (masculine, feminine). Despite these differences, both languages share transparent… read more
2024 Prediction in bilingual sentence processing: Is it linked to production? Processing in Bilingual Children, Dijk, Chantal van, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth (eds.), pp. 544–576 | Article
The Unified Competition Model (MacWhinney, 2012) accounts for cross-linguistic differences in thematic role mapping. We investigated production and predictive use of accusative case morphology in Russian-Hebrew bilingual children. We also investigated the role of production in predictive… read more
2022 The differential impact of age of onset of bilingualism and language exposure for bilingual children with DLD and ASD Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 33–38 | Commentary
2021 Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew-speaking children Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, Fernandez, Leigh B., Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 237–267 | Chapter
The present study explores the acquisition of the Russian accusative [acc] case inflections in two groups of bilingual children (Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew) who acquire Russian as their Heritage Language (HL) and two groups of monolingual Russian-speaking children within the Unified… read more
2021 Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memory Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe, Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (eds.), pp. 197–226 | Chapter
The current study assessed independent and combined effects of SLI and bilingualism on tasks tapping into verbal short-term memory (vSTM) with varying linguistic load in two languages (Russian and Hebrew). The study explored the extent to which the presence of SLI is related to limited vSTM… read more
2021 Restructuring in heritage grammars: Adjective-noun and numeral-noun expressions in Israeli Russian Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:2, pp. 222–258 | Article
This study investigates restructuring in heritage language (HL) grammars with a special focus on the driving forces behind changes in the underlying grammar. We evaluate the effect of Age of Onset of bilingualism (AoO) on possible grammatical restructuring. Relatedly, we assess whether HL… read more
2019 Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew-speaking children Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children, Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez (eds.), pp. 736–765 | Article
The present study explores the acquisition of the Russian accusative [acc] case inflections in two groups of bilingual children (Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew) who acquire Russian as their Heritage Language (HL) and two groups of monolingual Russian-speaking children within the Unified… read more
2017 Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memory Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017, Marinis, Theodoros, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas (eds.), pp. 301–330 | Article
The current study assessed independent and combined effects of SLI and bilingualism on tasks tapping into verbal short-term memory (vSTM) with varying linguistic load in two languages (Russian and Hebrew). The study explored the extent to which the presence of SLI is related to limited vSTM… read more
2017 Bi-directional cross-linguistic influence in bilingual Russian-Hebrew children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 514–553 | To be specified
This study examines cross-linguistic influence of L1 on L2 and L2 on L1 and the extent to which age of L2 onset (L2 AoO) is linked to the acquisition of morpho-syntactic properties in both languages of bilingual children who acquire L1-Russian as a heritage language and L2-Hebrew as a majority… read more