Internal State Terms in the Narratives of Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Microstructure and Macrostructure

C Altman, S Fichman, N Perry, P Osher… - Language, Speech, and …, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: We examined the role of narrative microstructure (production of words and
sentences) and narrative macrostructure (organization of events) in the use of internal state …

Narrative abilities of bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (SLI): Differentiation and the role of age and input factors

K Govindarajan, J Paradis - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose: The narrative abilities of bilinguals with TD and with DLD/SLI in their English L2
were examined in order to 1) identify the narrative components that differentiate these two …

Macrostructure, microstructure, and mental state terms in the narratives of English–Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without specific language impairment

C Altman, S Armon-Lotem, S Fichman… - Applied …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Children's bilingual status is important because the interest here is in narrative performance
in both languages of bilingual children, in particular the within-subject, cross language …

Narrative abilities of monolingual and bilingual children with and without language impairment: Implications for clinical practice

T Boerma, P Leseman, M Timmermeister… - … journal of language …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Understanding and expressing a narrative's macro‐structure is relatively
independent of experience in a specific language. A narrative task is therefore assumed to …

Story grammar elements and mental state terms in the expression of enabling relations in narratives of bilingual preschool children

S Fichman, S Armon-Lotem, J Walters… - Discourse …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The present research analyzes causal relations between events in the narratives of bilingual
preschool children with typical development (BiTD) and with developmental language …

Story grammar elements and causal relations in the narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with SLI and typical language development

S Fichman, C Altman, A Voloskovich… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background While there is general agreement regarding poor performance of children with
Specific Language Impairment (SLI) on microstructure measures of narrative production …

The impact of language dominance on Russian-Hebrew bilingual children's narrative production: Microstructure, macrostructure, and Internal State Terms

S Fichman, J Walters, S Armon-Lotem… - Linguistic Approaches …, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
The study explores the effect of language dominance on microstructure, macrostructure, and
Internal State Terms (ISTs) in narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children and examines …

Story retelling by bilingual children with language impairments and typically developing controls

KE Squires, MJ Lugo‐Neris, ED Peña… - … journal of language …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background To date there is limited information documenting growth patterns in the
narratives of bilingual children with and without primary language impairment (PLI). Aims …

Narrative macrostructure and microstructure profiles of bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder: differentiation from bilingual children with developmental …

K Govindarajan, J Paradis - Applied psycholinguistics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show heterogeneous language profiles
beyond early language delays. Understanding the second language profiles of bilingual …

Text organization in typically developing bilinguals and bilinguals at risk of DLD: what is different and how language independent is it

N Gagarina, J Lomako, E Stadtmiller… - … and relational discourse …, 2020 - degruyter.com
This study investigates narrative text organization, ie well-formedness and coherence of
macrostructure in Russian-German sequential bilingual children. Specifically, it compares …