Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. LITMUS in typical bilingual development
5. MAIN story comprehension 13
6. How oral texts are organized in monolingual and heritage Russian 47
7. A case study of a quadrilingual child 77
8. Lexical diversity in bilingual speakers of Croatian and Italian 99
9. Part II. Using LITMUS for identifying SLI (DLD)
10. Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition task 131
11. Identification of bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment in France 169
12. Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memory 197
13. The influence of different first languages on LITMUS nonword-repetition and sentence repetition in second language French and second language German 227
14. Phonology and sentential semantics 263
15. Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time 301
16. Index 329