Cross-linguistic development of narrative comprehension from A to Z

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledging our reviewers vii
4. Cross-linguistic development of narrative comprehension from A to Z 1
5. Narrative comprehension in Lebanese Arabic-French bilingual children 31
6. Inferential comprehension, age and language 61
7. Bilingual Turkish-Swedish children’s understanding of MAIN picture sequences 99
8. Narrative comprehension in simultaneously bilingual Finnish-Swedish and monolingual Finnish children 149
9. Narrative comprehension by Croatian-Italian bilingual children 5–7 years old 171
10. Bilingual children’s lexical and narrative comprehension in Dutch as the majority language 197
11. Why do you think the boy would be unhappy if he saw what the cat was eating? 231
12. Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers 269
13. Bilingualism effects in the narrative comprehension of children with Developmental Language Disorder and L2-Greek 297
14. Commentary 331
15. Index 337