Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic—English Children: The Effect of Cognitive, Age, and Input Factors over Time and across Languages

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 years in Canada. Morphosyntactic abilities were measured using sentence repetition tasks (SRT) in...

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Main Authors: Johanne Paradis, Adriana Soto-Corominas, Evangelia Daskalaki, Xi Chen, Alexandra Gottardo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/1/51