Evaluative language and component structure of oral narratives in Williams Syndrome

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction to atypical language development in romance languages 1
4. Part I. Preterm children
5. Neuroconstructivism to understand the effect of very preterm birth on language and literacy 23
6. Prematurity, executive functions and language 37
7. Risk for language delay in healthy preterm and full-term children 57
8. Word segmentation and mapping in early word learning 75
9. Part II. Specific Language Impairment
10. The influence of maternal education on the linguistic abilities of monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment 93
11. Idiom understanding competence of Spanish children with Specific Language Impairment and Pragmatic Language Impairment 113
12. Evaluation of narrative skills in language-impaired children 127
13. Real-time comprehension of sentences in children with SLI 143
14. Part III. Deafness
15. Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss 169
16. Executive functions and eye fixations in children with Cochlear Implant 185
17. Part IV. Genetic syndromes with intellectual disabilities
18. The relationship between the lexicon and grammar in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome 201
19. Profiles of grammatical morphology in Spanish-speaking adolescents with Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome 219
20. Evaluative language and component structure of oral narratives in Williams Syndrome 235
21. Index 253