Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment

Identification

Project identification: Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment [ ISCH COST Action IS0804 ]
Coordinator: Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Responsible at CLUNL: João Costa and Maria Lobo (LiFE – Formal and Experimental Linguistics group)
Duration: June 2009 – June 2013
Funding entity: European Science Foundation
Website: http://www.bi-sli.org/

Description

“The main objective of this Action is to profile bilingual Specific Language Impairment (SLI)by establishing a network to coordinate research on linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities.”

(Retrieved from the website COST Actions.)

Participating entities

Full information at: http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS0804?management

Publications

Articles

Friedmann, Naama and Costa, João (2011). Acquisition of SV and VS order in Hebrew, European Portuguese, Palestinian Arabic and Spanish. Language Acquisition, [online] 18(1), pp.1-38. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10489223.2011.530507 [Accessed 27 Sep. 2017]. e-ISSN 1532-7817; ISSN 1048-9223.
DOI 10.1080/10489223.2011.530507

Friedmann, Naama and Costa, João (2010). The child heard a coordinated sentence and wondered. On childrens difficulty in understanding coordination and relative clauses with crossing dependencies. Lingua, [online] 120(6), pp.1502-1515. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384109002186 [Accessed 27 Sep. 2017]. ISSN 0024-3841.
DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.10.006

Chapters in books/proceedings

Costa, João and Friedmann, Naama (2012). Children acquire unaccusatives and A-movement very early. In: M. Everaert, M. Marelj and T. Siloni, eds., Theta System: argument structure at the Interface. 1.^st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.354-378. ISBN 978-0-19-960252-0.

Friedmann, Naama and Costa, João (2011). Last resort and no resort: resumptive pronouns in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic hearing impairment. In: A. Rouveret, org., Resumptive pronouns at the interfaces. 1.^st ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.223-240. ISBN 978-90-272-0822-4.