Elma Blom

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Elma Blom plays a role.

Journals

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics (DuJAL)

Edited by Steven Schoonjans and Helen de Hoop

ISSN 2950-189X | E-ISSN 2950-1881

Book series

Studies in Bilingualism (SiBil)

Edited by Fatih Bayram and Tihana Kraš

ISSN 0928-1533

Titles

Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk

Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer

[Studies in Bilingualism, 52] 2017. vi, 358 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 27] 2010. vii, 292 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles (13) | Order by:

Boerma, Tessel and Elma Blom 2021 Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time: A longitudinal study on 5- to 8-year-old children with diverse language skills Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe, Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (eds.), pp. 301–328 | Chapter

Previous research has shown that a crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative tasks can support the identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) in 5- and 6-year-old bilingual children. The tasks disentangled the effects of DLD and bilingualism and demonstrated good clinical… read more

Blom, Elma and Tessel Boerma 2020 Bilingual children’s lexical and narrative comprehension in Dutch as the majority language Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 197–230 | Chapter

Background. Some studies find that bilingual children perform below monolinguals on language measures, whereas other studies report no differences. For the purpose of this study, we investigated the Dutch lexical and narrative comprehension of bilingual Tarifit-Dutch and Turkish-Dutch children.… read more

Blom, Elma and Tessel Boerma 2017 Effects of language impairment and bilingualism across domains: Vocabulary, morphology and verbal memory Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017, Marinis, Theodoros, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas (eds.), pp. 277–300 | Article

Purpose: This study examined the effects of language impairment (LI) and bilingualism across vocabulary, morphology and verbal memory in a sample of children learning Dutch. Methods: Children (MAGE = 71 months) were assigned to a monolingual group with typical development (TD) (n = 30),… read more

Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer 2017 Cross-linguistic influence in bilingualism: Festschrift for Aafke Hulk Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Francot, R.J., Kirsten van den Heuij, Elma Blom, Wilbert Heeringa and Leonie Cornips 2017 Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community: The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabulary Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. 85–98 | Chapter

This study focuses on the relationship between dialect use and the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary by young children in the Dutch province of Limburg.1 The results of a newly-developed dialect expressive vocabulary task show extensive inter-individual variation that does not support a… read more

Marinis, Theodoros, Vasiliki (Vicky) Chondrogianni, Nada Vasić, Fred Weerman and Elma Blom 2017 The impact of transparency and morpho-phonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in sequential bilingual children and children with Specific Language Impairment: A cross-linguistic study Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 153–180 | Chapter

Blom, Elma and Nada Vasić 2016 The influence of phonological factors on the expression of finiteness by children learning Dutch as their first and second language Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 287–308 | Article

Previous research has indicated that children learning a first language (L1) and children learning a second language (L2) make errors with finiteness marking, even when they master the syntactic and morphological properties of finiteness marking in the target language. This study investigates… read more

Blom, Elma 2014 From the bird to the frog: A closer look at the acquisition of V2 in Dutch Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, pp. 321–324 | Commentary

Blom, Elma and Nada Vasić 2011 The production and processing of determiner–noun agreement in child L2 Dutch Internal and External Factors in Child Second Language Acquisition, Hulk, Aafke and Theodoros Marinis (eds.), pp. 265–290 | Article

Recent research has shown that children who learn Dutch as their second language (L2) have difficulties with Dutch grammatical gender. This study shows that six to nine year old L2 Dutch children whose first language (L1) is Turkish noticed incorrect gender agreement between determiner and noun… read more

Unsworth, Sharon and Elma Blom 2010 Chapter 10. Comparing L1 children, L2 children and L2 adults Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research, Blom, Elma and Sharon Unsworth (eds.), pp. 201–222 | Chapter

Blom, Elma 2008 Testing the Domain-by-Age Model: Inflection and placement of Dutch verbs Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 271–300 | Article

Generalizing over various observations on the language development of children acquiring a second language (child L2 acquisition), Schwartz (2003: 47) concludes that “in the domain of inflectional morphology, child L2 acquisition is more like child L1 acquisition, and in the domain of syntax, child… read more