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- Holmström, Ketty, et al.
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A descriptive study of lexical organisation in bilingual children with language impairment: Developmental changes
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Ingår i: International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1754-9515 .- 1754-9507. ; 18:2, s. 178-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2015 The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited Published by Taylor & Francis. Purpose: This study aimed to describe the development of Arabic and Swedish lexical organisation in bilingual children with language impairment (BLI).Method: Lexical organisation was assessed through word associations in 10 BLI and 10 bilingual children with typical development (BTD), aged 6;2-8;0 years, matched for age and gender. The participants were assessed twice, with a 1-year interval. Word associations were coded as paradigmatic, syntagmatic, phonological, other and no answer. This study reports analyses of the semantically-related syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations. Using repeated measures ANOVA, main and interaction effects of Group, Time and Language were examined for paradigmatic and syntagmatic associations separately.Result: The interaction between Group and Time was significant for both associations. The BLI group increased syntagmatic associations from time 1 to time 2, while the BTD group increased paradigmatic associations. Results showed a significant main effect of Language for both types of associations, with better performance in Swedish. Significant Group by Language interactions resulted from lower Arabic than Swedish syntagmatic and paradigmatic scores for the BLI and BTD groups, respectively.Conclusion: Differing developmental trajectories indicate that bilingual children with LI develop lexical organisation at a slower pace than bilingual peers with typical language development.
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- Holmström, Ketty, et al.
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Conceptual Scoring of Lexical Organization in Bilingual Children with Language Impairment
- 2016
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Ingår i: Communication Disorders Quarterly. - : SAGE Publications. - 1525-7401 .- 1538-4837. ; 38:1, s. 24-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © Hammill Institute on Disabilities 2015. The aim was to evaluate conceptual scoring of lexical organization in bilingual children with language impairment (BLI) and to compare BLI performance with monolingual children with language impairment (MLI). Word associations were assessed in 15 BLI and 9 MLI children. BLI were assessed in Arabic and Swedish, MLI in Swedish only. A number of syntagmatic (semantic link, different word class) and paradigmatic associations (semantic link, same word class) were calculated. Arabic and Swedish scores were compared with a conceptual score (total number of concepts from both languages). For BLI, the paradigmatic conceptual score was significantly higher than single language scores, confirming the distribution of lexical knowledge across languages. The BLI group had significantly higher conceptual paradigmatic scores than the MLI group. Conceptual scoring may reduce the over-identification of language impairment (LI) and underestimation of lexical knowledge in bilingual populations.
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