Browsing Humanitats by Author "Soto-Corominas, Adriana"
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Age, experience and language and literacy skills in english-arabic speaking syrian refugees
Gottardo, Alexandra; Al-Janaideh, Redab; Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Chen, Xi; Amin, Norah (Languages, 2023)Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition. The present study ... -
How language environment, age and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (Applied Psycholinguistics, 2020)Research on the bilingual development of refugee children is limited, despite this group having distinct characteristics and migration experiences that could impact language development. This study ... -
Indirect structural crosslinguistic influence in early Catalan–Spanish bilinguals in adulthood: predicate selection in Catalan existential constructions
Perpiñán, Silvia; Soto-Corominas, Adriana (Applied Psycholinguistics, 2021-11)This study reports an oral production experiment investigating the expression of existentiality in the Catalan of adult Catalan–Spanish early bilinguals (N = 58) with comparable proficiencies but different ... -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: the case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
Blom, Elma; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Attar, Zahraa; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Paradis, Johanne (Applied psycholinguistics, 2021)Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian ... -
Morphosyntactic development in first generation arabic- english children: the effect of cognitive, age, and input factors over time and across languages
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (Languages, 2020)This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6–13) within their first three ...