Eleni Peristeri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eleni Peristeri plays a role.
2024 Chapter 8. Bilingualism matters: A study of children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 204–231 | Chapter
This study investigated bilingualism effects on language, executive functions and Theory of Mind (ToM) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The performance of these clinical groups was compared to that of children with typical… read more
2023 On the interaction of age, cognitive abilities, print exposure and pronoun type in pronoun resolution Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects, Fotiadou, Georgia and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (eds.), pp. 68–93 | Chapter
Our study examines the impact of age differences in the interpretation of null and overt subject pronouns in referentially ambiguous sentences, while investigating at the same time the extent to which ambiguous anaphora resolution is affected by cognitive and print exposure measures. Older… read more
2022 The language-communication divide: Evidence from bilingual children with atypical development Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition, Durrleman, Stephanie (ed.), pp. 5–51 | Article
Has language developed to serve as a system of communication or one of thought? While language is clearly an excellent tool for communication, the possible contribution of higher order cognitive processes other than language to communication may provide insights on how we think about language… read more
2020 Bilingualism effects in the narrative comprehension of children with Developmental Language Disorder and L2-Greek: Links with language, executive function and Theory of Mind Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 297–330 | Chapter
Narrative comprehension is a complex process that requires the ability to integrate language information from the speech signal with visual and contextual knowledge, while drawing also from social cognition and executive functions. Although many studies have examined narrative comprehension in… read more
2017 Object Clitic production in monolingual and bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment: A comparison between elicited production and narratives Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017, Marinis, Theodoros, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas (eds.), pp. 394–430 | Article
Pronominal clitics are sensitive to both morphosyntax and discourse. Problems in clitic use could therefore stem from morphosyntactic or discourse management problems in children with SLI. Previous studies focused on 3rd person clitic use identifying morphosyntactic problems. We compare 1st with… read more
2017 Cross-linguistic influence meets language impairment: Determiners and object clitics in Russian-Greek bilingual children with typical development and with Specific Language Impairment Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 331–354 | Chapter
Our study investigates the use of articles and object clitics in the L2-Greek of child speakers of Russian with and without Specific Language Impairment. Effects of language impairment were examined in the narratives of children whose languages differ in the expression of definiteness: Russian… read more