Sari Kunnari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sari Kunnari is involved.
Articles
2025 The acquisition of Finnish phonology First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.), pp. 117–134 | Chapter
While each child’s speech acquisition is unique, certain universal and language-specific patterns guide this process. This chapter summarises what we know about the typical phonological development of children acquiring Finnish. Based on the findings presented in this chapter, the following… read more
2020 Narrative comprehension in simultaneously bilingual Finnish-Swedish and monolingual Finnish children Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Chapter
We analysed narrative comprehension in 5-to-6-year-old simultaneously bilingual Finnish-Swedish (n = 16) and monolingual Finnish children (n = 16) by using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). We assessed mean total narrative comprehension scores for bilingual children… read more

