Mark Leikin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark Leikin plays a role.
Articles
2007 Learning to read in English as third language: The cross-linguistic transfer of phonological processing skills Written Language & Literacy 10:1, pp. 25–52 | Article
The present study compared the influence of bi-literate bilingualism versus mono-literate bilingualism on the development of literary skills in English as L3. Two main predictions were made. First, it was predicted that Russian (L1) literacy would benefit decoding and spelling acquisition in… read more
2005 Bi-literate bilingualism versus mono-literate bilingualism: A longitudinal study of reading acquisition in Hebrew (L2) among Russian-speaking (L1) children Literacy Processes and Literacy Development, Reitsma, Pieter and Ludo Verhoeven (eds.), pp. 103–130 | Article
The present study compared the early Hebrew (L2) literacy development of three groups; two groups of bilinguals — bi-literate and mono-literate Russian-Hebrew speakers, and a third group of monolingual Hebrew-speakers. We predicted that bi-literacy rather than bilingualism is the key variable as… read more
2002 Locative prepositions in language acquisition and aphasia Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context, Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), pp. 283–297 | Article
1996 6. The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production abd Comprehension of Locative
Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis, Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 381 ff. | Article