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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 ...
Interdependence between L1 and L2: the case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(Cambridge University Press, 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 ...