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Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings
LITMUS in action across Europe
COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities. A battery of tools for Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) was designed within the Action to achieve these aims, including the Parental Bilingual Questionnaire, the Sentence Repetition Task, the Crosslinguistic Lexical Tasks, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, and two nonword repetition tasks that are not language-specific. The chapters in this volume present research on one or more of the LITMUS tasks in bilingual children with typical language development and on use of the LITMUS testing battery for identifying possible language impairment. The work presented here will be of interest for researchers and clinicians alike, and have profound impact in our understanding of bilingual language development and impairment.
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 25 October 2021
Published online on 25 October 2021
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionSharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann | pp. 1–10
- Part I. LITMUS in typical bilingual development
- MAIN story comprehension: What can we expect of a typically developing child?Ute Bohnacker and Josefin Lindgren | pp. 13–46
- How oral texts are organized in monolingual and heritage Russian: Evidence from six countriesNatalia Gagarina, Sveta Fichman, Elena Galkina, Ekaterina Protassova, Natalia Ringblom and Yulia Rodina | pp. 47–76
- A case study of a quadrilingual child: The influence of exposure and cognates when developing multiple languagesGisela Håkansson and Birgitta Waters | pp. 77–98
- Lexical diversity in bilingual speakers of Croatian and ItalianGordana Hržica and Maja Roch | pp. 99–130
- Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition taskStanislava Antonijevic, Ruth Durham and Íde Ní Chonghaile | pp. 131–166
- Part II. Using LITMUS for identifying SLI (DLD)
- Identification of bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment in FranceLaetitia de Almeida, Sandrine Ferré, Eléonore Morin, Philippe Prévost, Christophe dos Santos, Laurie Tuller, Racha Zebib and Marie-Anne Barthez | pp. 169–196
- Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memoryNatalia Meir | pp. 197–226
- The influence of different first languages on LITMUS nonword-repetition and sentence repetition in second language French and second language German: A crosslinguistic approachSolveig Chilla, Cornelia Hamann, Philippe Prévost, Lina Abed Ibrahim, Sandrine Ferré, Christophe dos Santos, Racha Zebib and Laurice Tuller | pp. 227–262
- Phonology and sentential semantics: Markers of SLI in bilingual children at age 6?Angela Grimm and Petra Schulz | pp. 263–300
- Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time: A longitudinal study on 5- to 8-year-old children with diverse language skillsTessel Boerma and Elma Blom | pp. 301–328
- Index
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