Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages.

This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages.

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2019.
©2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction to atypical language development in romance languages
  • Introduction
  • Typical language acquisition in Romance languages
  • Atypical language development
  • Preterm children
  • Specific Language Impairment
  • Deaf children
  • Genetic syndromes
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part I. Preterm children
  • Neuroconstructivism to understand the effect of very preterm birth on language and literacy
  • Rethinking preterm birth with the neuroconstructivist approach
  • Effects of preterm birth on communication and language development
  • Acquisition and consolidation of literacy
  • Interventions
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Prematurity, executive functions and language
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Participants
  • Instruments
  • Procedure
  • Analyses performed
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Risk for language delay in healthy preterm and full-term children
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Measures and instruments
  • Linguistic measures
  • Cognitive and other contextual measures
  • Procedure
  • Analyses performed
  • Results
  • Descriptive language, cognitive and environmental measures in PR and FT children
  • PR and FT children's RLD from 22 to 60 months
  • Predicting RLD at 22, 30 and 60 months
  • Discussion
  • References
  • Word segmentation and mapping in early word learning
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Measures
  • Results
  • Familiarization phase
  • Test phase
  • BSID-III measures of cognitive and language development
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Appendix 1.
  • Part II. Specific Language Impairment.
  • The influence of maternal education on the linguistic abilities of monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment
  • Overview
  • Family and socioeconomic status
  • Family and language development
  • Risk factors associated to language difficulties
  • Goals
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Selection criteria
  • Instruments
  • Experimental task
  • Procedure
  • Analysis
  • Results
  • Interaction between clinical diagnosis of SLI and ME level
  • Discussion
  • Limitations
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • A. Appendix
  • Idiom understanding competence of Spanish children with Specific Language Impairment and Pragmatic Language Impairment
  • Introduction
  • Figurative language and idiom understanding
  • Idiom understanding in children with SLI and PLI
  • Aims and hypothesis
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Language measures
  • Idiom understanding tasks
  • a. Verbal condition
  • Visual condition
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • I. Between-group comparisons on key and related measures
  • II. Within-group comparisons between verbal and visual conditions
  • III. Correlations between idiom understanding (verbal condition) and language measures
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Evaluation of narrative skills in language-impaired children
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Material
  • Procedure
  • Measures
  • Results of Study 1
  • Results of Study 2
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • Real-time comprehension of sentences in children with SLI
  • Introduction
  • Experiment 1
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Experiment 2
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Experiment 3
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • General discussion.
  • Appendix A. Sentences used in Experiment 1
  • Appendix B. Experimental sentences of Experiment 2
  • Appendix C. Sentences used in the Experiment 2
  • References
  • Part III. Deafness
  • Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss
  • Introduction
  • Deficits in emotion recognition in children with hearing loss
  • Language and emotion recognition in children with hearing loss
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Correlations between emotion recognition and language
  • Predictors of emotion recognition
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Executive functions and eye fixations in children with Cochlear Implant
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Data Analysis
  • Results
  • Language
  • Executive Functions
  • Visual Fixation Patterns
  • Discussion
  • References
  • Genetic syndromes with intellectual disabilities
  • The relationship between the lexicon and grammar in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome
  • Introduction
  • Lexical-grammatical relationships in children with Down Syndrome (DS)
  • Method
  • Participants
  • Instruments
  • Procedure
  • Data analysis
  • Results
  • Associations between vocabulary and grammar
  • Vocabulary composition and vocabulary levels
  • Grammatical word types relationships to grammatical structures in Group 2
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Profiles of grammatical morphology in Spanish-speaking adolescents with Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Participants
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Evaluative language and component structure of oral narratives in Williams Syndrome
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Participants
  • Procedure and coding
  • Results
  • Narrative structure.
  • Narrative evaluation: Evaluative expressions
  • Narrative evaluation: Evidential markers
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • References
  • Index.