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View article: Searching for words: picture naming errors and contributing factors in bilingual and monolingual children aged 3–7 years
Searching for words: picture naming errors and contributing factors in bilingual and monolingual children aged 3–7 years Open
To investigate how children organise their vocabularies, we can analysethe errors they make when unable to retrieve a word. Analysis ofnaming errors has not been sufficiently explored in the first language (L1) of bilingual children. We em…
View article: Language assessment of Polish‐English bilingual children by speech and language therapists who do not speak Polish: A feasibility study of a novel scoring schema for Sentence‐Repetition‐Tasks
Language assessment of Polish‐English bilingual children by speech and language therapists who do not speak Polish: A feasibility study of a novel scoring schema for Sentence‐Repetition‐Tasks Open
Background The challenge of assessing all languages of multilingual children by clinicians who do not speak the children's heritage languages is a global problem amplified by the increase in recent migration as well as a lack of available …
View article: A story of stories: a large-scale cross-linguistic study of young children’s narratives
A story of stories: a large-scale cross-linguistic study of young children’s narratives Open
This study investigates children’s narrative skills, using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), a theory-based tool adapted to 100 languages. How do children’s overall narrative skills, including the use of factual…
View article: Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers Open
In this longitudinal study, we compare the age of reaching early developmental milestones in bilingual and monolingual children and between the bilinguals’ two languages. We present data from 302 Polish bilinguals (living outside of Poland…
View article: Bilinguals’ knowledge of ‘home’ and ‘school’ words revisited: evidence from Polish-English bilinguals
Bilinguals’ knowledge of ‘home’ and ‘school’ words revisited: evidence from Polish-English bilinguals Open
Bilingual children’s total vocabulary in each of their languages is oftensmaller than that of monolinguals. In their seminal study, Bialystok et al.(2010. ‘Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingualchildren.’ Bilingualis…
View article: Parental report of vocabulary in 3‐ to 6‐year‐old Polish children: Reliable but not valid
Parental report of vocabulary in 3‐ to 6‐year‐old Polish children: Reliable but not valid Open
Background For over 30 years, parental reports have been used to study the vocabulary of children under 4 years of age. Research exploring parental checklists as a measure of vocabulary in older children is very limited. Typically, authors…
View article: Identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial
Identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial Open
The result demonstrates the promise of this approach to collect reference data and identify DLD in multilingual children. The online LITMUS battery has the potential to support identification of multilingual DLD in any target language.
View article: Co-occurrence and cognitive basis of low language and low reading skills in children speaking a transparent language
Co-occurrence and cognitive basis of low language and low reading skills in children speaking a transparent language Open
We investigated the comorbidity of low language and reading skills in 6- to 8-year-old monolingual Polish-speaking children ( N = 962) using three different approaches: norming data to determine the prevalence of co-morbid difficulties, gr…
View article: Assessing language in infants with an elevated likelihood or diagnosis of autism: The association between parent- versus researcher-administered measures
Assessing language in infants with an elevated likelihood or diagnosis of autism: The association between parent- versus researcher-administered measures Open
Purpose: Infants later diagnosed with autism typically have smaller vocabularies than their peers. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI) and the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) are key tools for assessing i…
View article: Both L1 and L2 proficiency impact ToM reasoning in children aged 4 to 6. Painting a more nuanced picture of the relation between bilingualism and ToM – CORRIGENDUM
Both L1 and L2 proficiency impact ToM reasoning in children aged 4 to 6. Painting a more nuanced picture of the relation between bilingualism and ToM – CORRIGENDUM Open
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View article: Both L1 and L2 proficiency impact ToM reasoning in children aged 4 to 6. Painting a more nuanced picture of the relation between bilingualism and ToM
Both L1 and L2 proficiency impact ToM reasoning in children aged 4 to 6. Painting a more nuanced picture of the relation between bilingualism and ToM Open
Previous studies that contrasting bilinguals with monolinguals on Theory of Mind (ToM) have shown mixed results. We present a relatively large ( N = 102) study comparing Polish–English sequential bilinguals living in the UK with Polish mon…
View article: Metacognitive verbs do not show a cross-language gap: An investigation of metacognitive and concrete verbs in bilingual children
Metacognitive verbs do not show a cross-language gap: An investigation of metacognitive and concrete verbs in bilingual children Open
Purpose: Previous research on bilingual vocabulary has focussed largely on words for imaginable objects and actions (e.g., ‘apple’, ‘write’), but did not consider abstract words. We looked for a disproportion across two languages (a cross-…
View article: Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol
Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol Open
Social sciences researchers emphasize that new technologies can overcome the limitations of small and homogenous samples. In research on early language development, which often uses parental reports, taking the testing online might be part…
View article: The Vocabulary of Infants with an Elevated Likelihood and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Infant Language Studies Using the CDI and MSEL
The Vocabulary of Infants with an Elevated Likelihood and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Infant Language Studies Using the CDI and MSEL Open
Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are typically accompanied by atypical language development, which can be noticeable even before diagnosis. The siblings of children diagnosed with ASD are at elevated likelihood for ASD diagnosis…
View article: Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties
Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties Open
Word knowledge and the speed of word processing in monolingual children and adults are influenced by word properties, such as the age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, and frequency. Understanding how different properties of words contri…
View article: Separating the influences of late talking and dyslexia on brain structure.
Separating the influences of late talking and dyslexia on brain structure. Open
Being a late talker constitutes a risk factor for later neurodevelopmental disorders; however, its neurobiological basis remains unexplored. We aimed to determine the unique and mutual correlates of late talking and developmental dyslexia …
View article: COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains.
COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Open
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources…
View article: COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains.
COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Open
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources…
View article: Polish MAIN: how was it developed and how has it been used so far?
Polish MAIN: how was it developed and how has it been used so far? Open
This paper describes in detail the development of the Polish version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). We first describe its two earlier versions, the unpublished version and the published versio…
View article: Polish–English bilingual children overuse referential markers: MLU inflation in Polish-language narratives
Polish–English bilingual children overuse referential markers: MLU inflation in Polish-language narratives Open
Polish and English differ in the surface realization of the underlying Determiner Phrase (DP): Polish lacks an article system, whereas English makes use of articles for both grammatical and pragmatic reasons. This difference has an impact …
View article: Developmental Psycholinguistics: Old Questions, New Answers
Developmental Psycholinguistics: Old Questions, New Answers Open
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View article: Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian
Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian Open
We present a new set of subjective Age of Acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158 nouns, 141 verbs) in seven languages from various language families and cultural settings: American English, Czech, Scottish Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Ma…
View article: Retelling a model story improves the narratives of Polish-English bilingual children
Retelling a model story improves the narratives of Polish-English bilingual children Open
Reading and telling stories to children improves their narrative skills, which is well-documented for monolinguals, but not for bilinguals. We investigated whether bilingual narratives improve when the child is provided with a model story.…
View article: “Do You Remember Going to the Beach?”: References to Internal States in Polish and American Mother-Preschooler Shared Narratives
“Do You Remember Going to the Beach?”: References to Internal States in Polish and American Mother-Preschooler Shared Narratives Open
The present study examined references to cognitive states and emotions in narratives produced by mothers and preschoolers (aged 3 or 5 years) in Polish and American families. Participants were 32 mother-child dyads from Poland and 32 mothe…
View article: Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires: A cross-linguistic study of bilingual assessment methods
Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires: A cross-linguistic study of bilingual assessment methods Open
Purpose: As a contribution to the endeavour of developing appropriate tools for bilingual language assessment, this paper investigates the concurrence between two new tools from the recent COST Action IS0804 (Bi-SLI), and the differences b…