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L2 Vocabulary Acquisition of Early Sequentially Bilingual Children with TD and DLD Affected Differently by Exposure and Age of Onset
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Smolander, Sini; Laasonen, Marja; Arkkila, Eva; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Kunnari, Sari – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Language exposure is known to be a key factor influencing bilingual vocabulary development in typically developing (TD) children. There is, however, a lack of knowledge in terms of exposure effects in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and, especially, in interaction with age of onset (AoO) of second language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, Young Children
Language Acquisition of Early Sequentially Bilingual Children Is Moderated by Short-Term Memory for Order in Developmental Language Disorder: Findings from the HelSLI Study
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Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Laasonen, Marja; Smolander, Sini; Kunnari, Sari; Arkkila, Eva; Service, Elisabet – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: The role of domain-general short-term memory (STM) in language development remains controversial. A previous finding from the HelSLI study on children with developmental language disorder (DLD) suggested that not only verbal but also non-verbal STM for temporal order is related to language acquisition in monolingual children with DLD.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children, Developmental Disabilities