Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-speaking Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

   PDF

2. Typical Language Development in Monolingual and Bilingual Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. Typical Language Development of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children

      • Sonia Mariscal, Alejandra Auza Benavides

      Pages 3-36

   3. Language Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with and Without Specific Language Impairment: A Longitudinal Perspective

      • Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucia Buil-Legaz, Raül López-Penadés, Daniel Adrover-Roig

      Pages 37-62

   4. Bilingual and Monolingual Children’s Patterns of Syntactic Variation: Variable Clitic Placement in Spanish

      • Naomi L. Shin, Pablo E. Requena, Anita Kemp

      Pages 63-88

3. Children at Risk of Language Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

      PDF

   2. Executive Functions and Language Development in Pre-Term and Full-Term Children

      • Miguel Pérez-Pereira, Manuel Peralbo, Alberto Veleiro

      Pages 91-112

   3. Processing Speed of Infants with High and Low Communicative Skills

      • Elda Alicia Alva Canto, Paloma Suárez Brito

      Pages 113-128

   4. Relevance of Family Psychosocial Environment in the Language Development of Mexican Children

      • Silvia Izazola-Ezquerro, Mario Mandujano-Valdés, Rolando Rivera-González, Antonio Sierra-Cedillo, Miriam Figueroa-Olea, Karla Soler-Limón et al.

      Pages 129-146

   5. Language Delay and Amount of Exposure to the Language: Two (Un)Related Phenomena in Early Spanish-Basque Bilingualism

      • Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena, Iñaki García Fernández

      Pages 147-164

4. Children with Specific Language Impairment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

      PDF

   2. Neurocognitive and Psycholinguistic Profile of Specific Language Impairment: A Research Study on Comorbidity of SLI With/Without Reading Disabilities

      • Dolors Girbau

      Pages 167-188

   3. Connections Among Language Knowledge, Language Processing, and Nonlinguistic Cognitive Processing in Bilingual Children with Language Impairment

      • Kerry Danahy Ebert, Giang Pham

      Pages 189-204

   4. Sentence Repetition in Typical and Atypical Spanish-Speaking Preschoolers Who Are English Language Learners

      • Gabriela Simón-Cereijido

      Pages 205-215

   5. The Role of Verb Semantic Representation in Sentence Processing in Children with SLI

      • Llorenç Andreu, Mònica Sanz-Torrent

      Pages 217-233

   6. Self-Repair Timing of Lexical Problem Sources: A Window into Primary Language Impairment Online Processing

      • Wendy Fabiola Lara Galindo, Cecilia Rojas-Nieto

      Pages 235-260

   7. Narrative Comprehension and Language Skills in Chilean Children with Specific Language Impairment

      • Carmen Julia Coloma, María Mercedes Pavez

      Pages 261-287

   8. Working Memory and Morphosyntax in Children with Specific (Primary) Language Impairment

      • Andrea Chávez, Alejandra Auza Benavides

      Pages 289-307

5. Children with Syndromes and other Language Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309

      PDF

   2. Morphological Profile of Williams Syndrome: Typical or Atypical?

      • Eliseo Diez-Itza, Verónica Martínez, Maite Fernández-Urquiza, Aránzazu Antón

      Pages 311-327

Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes.

• child language disorders
• remediation of language disorders in Spanish
• language impairment
• language development disorders
• language processing
• atypical development of Spanish-speaking children
• children at risk of language disorders
• monolingual spanish-speaking children
• clinical perspectives on language processing
• experimental research on phonology of Spanish
• acquisition of Spanish

• Hospital General “Dr. Manuel Gea González”, Mexico City, Mexico

  Alejandra Auza Benavides

• Program in Speech and Hearing, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA

  Richard G. Schwartz

Policies and ethics