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Morphosyntactic development in first generation arabic- english children: the effect of cognitive, age, and input factors over time and across languages
(MDPI, 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 ...
How language environment, age and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada
(Cambridge University Press, 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 ...
Age, experience and language and literacy skills in english-arabic speaking syrian refugees
(MDPI, 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 ...
The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: the case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by morphological cues. Given ...