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Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4] 2017
► pp. 359–393
Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition task
Stanislava Antonijevic | National University of Ireland, Galway
Ruth Durham | Health Service Executive Longford-Westmeath, Ireland
Íde Ní Chonghaile | Health Service Executive West, Ireland
Currently there are no standardized language assessments for English-Irish bilingual school age children that would test languages in a comparable way. There are also no standardized language assessments of Irish for this age group. The current study aimed to design comparable language assessments in both languages targeting structures known to be challenging for children with language impairments. A sentence repetition (SRep) task equivalent to the English SRep task (Marinis, Chiat, Armon-Lotem, Piper, & Roy, 2011) was designed for Irish. Twenty-four typically developing, sequential bilingual children immersed in Irish in the educational setting performed better on the English SRep task than on the Irish SRep task. Different patterns were observed in language performance across sentence types with performance on relative clauses being particularly poor in Irish. Similarly, differences were observed in error patterns with the highest number of errors of omission in Irish, and the highest number of substitution errors in English.
Keywords: Irish, bilingualism, sentence repetition, sequential bilingualism, minority language
Published online: 05 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15026.ant
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15026.ant
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