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Relative Clause Production Abilities of Hebrew-Speaking Children with ASD
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Nufar Sukenik – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Relative clauses (RCs) are complex syntactic structures because they consist of multiple clauses and involve syntactic movement. RCs are known as a reliable clinical marker of syntactic impairment across many different languages and populations. Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle with the comprehension and production of RCs,…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Task Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Autism Spectrum Disorders
Text Complexity and Variety Factors in Narrative Retelling and Narrative Comprehension among Arabic-Speaking Preschool Children
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Kawar, Khaloob; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Armon-Lotem, Sharon – First Language, 2023
The current study investigates narrative retelling and comprehension among 30 native Arabic-speaking preschool children with a mean age of 5:10. Narrative features of text-complexity (less-complex and more-complex episodic structure) and language variety (Spoken Palestinian Arabic [PA] and Modern Standard Arabic [MSA]) were analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preschool Children, Arabic, Language Variation
Alphabet Books: The Nature of Parents' Shared Reading between and across Books
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Bergman Deitcher, Deborah; Aram, Dorit; Goldberg, Adva – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
This study examined the nature of parents' shared reading with their preschoolers between and across two different alphabet trade books. The "busy" book contains more sentences and words per page, more complex illustrations per page, and the target letter takes up less of the page and appears in the same colour as the text. The…
Descriptors: Books, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Alphabets
Examination of Creative Abilities of Preschool Children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
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Leikin, Mark; Tovli, Esther – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2019
The present study aims to examine the relationship between developmental language deficit and children's creative ability. For this purpose, we compared the performance of preschool children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) on general and mathematic creativity tests with that of typically developing children. The findings demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Correlation, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children
Developing Linguistic Flexibility across the School Years
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Kaplan, Dafna; Berman, Ruth – First Language, 2015
The study examined linguistic flexibility of Hebrew-speaking students from middle childhood to adolescence compared with adults on tasks requiring them to alternate between different versions of varied linguistic stimuli. Lexical flexibility was tested by constructing different words with a shared root and a shared prosodic template;…
Descriptors: Intonation, Syntax, Suprasegmentals, Sentence Structure
Typical Acquisition by Atypical Children: Initial Consonant Cluster Acquisition by Israeli Hebrew-Acquiring Children with Cochlear Implants
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Adi-Bensaid, Limor; Ben-David, Avivit – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This paper studies the developmental stages of word initial consonant clusters (CCs) in the speech of six monolingual Israeli Hebrew (IH) acquiring hearing impaired children using cochlear implant (CI). Focusing on the patterns of cluster reduction, this study compares the CI children with typically-developing hearing children. All the CI…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Hearing Impairments, Monolingualism