Carmit Altman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmit Altman is involved.
Articles
2022 The impact of language dominance on Russian-Hebrew bilingual children’s narrative production: Microstructure, macrostructure, and Internal State Terms Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 509–539 | Article
The study explores the effect of language dominance on microstructure, macrostructure, and Internal State Terms (ISTs) in narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children and examines within-language and cross-language associations between narrative elements in two dominance groups. Narratives… read more
2014 Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgrounds Input and Experience in Bilingual Development, Grüter, Theres and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 77–98 | Article
This chapter examines the influence of sociolinguistic and exposure factors on second language (L2) proficiency in Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew (second generation) preschool children. The children come from two distinct ethnolinguistic populations with different motivations for immigration and… read more