Hélène Delage
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hélène Delage is involved.
2026 Bilingualism, working memory, and relative clause comprehension in children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:2, pp. 171–202 | Article
Bilingualism has sometimes been associated with cognitive boosts, particularly in working memory (WM). However, it remains unclear whether such benefits extend to the comprehension of syntactically complex structures. We investigated this through a gamified character-selection task assessing… read more
2025 L’évaluation du langage chez l’élève multilingue: L’apport des évaluations en langue d’origine (EVLO) Towards an Integrated Approach to Heritage and School Languages in Education Policies: The case of multilingual Geneva, de Goumoëns, Claire, Laurent Gajo and Myriam Radhouane (eds.), pp. 317–335 | Article
Dans le cadre d’une politique générale d’intégration des élèves allophones, les difficultés d’apprentissage langagier chez les élèves multilingues soulèvent des défis spécifiques ; l’évaluation des troubles du langage doit notamment faire la part des choses entre des difficultés transitoires… read more
2019 Syntax and working memory in typically-developing children: Focus on syntactic complexity Language, Interaction and Acquisition 10:2, pp. 141–176 | Article
A growing trend in developmental psycholinguistics is to relate linguistic development to the development of other cognitive systems. Jakubowicz (2005, 2011) in particular argued that the processing of a complex sentence requires considerable working memory (WM) resources and that these… read more
2018 Syntactic awareness of clitic pronouns and articles in French-speaking children with autism, specific language impairment and developmental dyslexia On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 147–168 | Chapter
The performance of 122 children on syntactic awareness of clitics and articles in French was examined. Three clinical groups (21 children with ASD, 22 children with SLI, 23 children with DD) and a group of 56 younger children with TD were studied. On the article task, children with ASD obtained… read more
2018 Sentence repetition and language impairment in French-speaking children with ASD On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 235–258 | Chapter
This study investigates formal language abilities in French-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We report on the usefulness of the LITMUS-Sentence-Repetition-French task in distinguishing children with impaired language (ASD-LI) from children with normal language (ASD-LN). We… read more