Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages / edited by Eva Aguilar Mediavilla, [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aguilar Mediavilla, Eva, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech disorders.

Developmental disabilities.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Monograph ; : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.

Summary:

This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book covers four main conditions causing atypical language development. Part I explores the linguistic and communicative characteristics of preterm children learning Romance languages. The focus of Part II centers on children with Specific Language Impairment. Hearing Loss in Part III is another relevant factor leading to atypical language development. The final part IV zeroes in on genetic syndromes coupled to cognitive impairment with special attention to language development. This book presents a much needed overview of the most recent findings in all relevant fields dealing with atypical language development in children speaking Romance languages.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction to atypical language development in romance languages

Part I. Preterm children

Neuroconstructivism to understand the effect of very preterm birth on language and literacy

Prematurity, executive functions and language

Risk for language delay in healthy preterm and full-term children

Word segmentation and mapping in early word learning

Part II. Specific Language Impairment

The influence of maternal education on the linguistic abilities of monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

Idiom understanding competence of Spanish children with Specific Language Impairment and Pragmatic Language Impairment

Evaluation of narrative skills in language-impaired children

Real-time comprehension of sentences in children with SLI

Part III. Deafness

Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss

Executive functions and eye fixations in children with Cochlear Implant

Part IV. Genetic syndromes with intellectual disabilities

The relationship between the lexicon and grammar in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome

Profiles of grammatical morphology in Spanish-speaking adolescents with Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome

Evaluative language and component structure of oral narratives in Williams Syndrome

Index

Notes:

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