TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gagarina, Natalʹja Vladimirovna
A1  - Gey, Stefanie
A1  - Sürmeli, Natalie
T1  - Identifying early preschool bilinguals at risk of DLD: a composite profile of narrative and sentence repetition skills
T2  - Narrative texts by children and adults: insights into their organization through a prism of language system and environmental factors ; ZASPiL ; 62
N2  - For this study one hundred sixty-seven Russian-/Turkish-German preschool children were tested with a battery of language proficiency tests in both languages. On the basis of 1.5 SD below monolingual norm for L2 German and 1.25 SD below bilingual mean for either home language, 9 children at risk of developmental language disorders (DLD) (mean age of 4 years and 5 months) were identified and 16 age-matched TD children were selected out of the cohort. All these children were tested with the LITMUS-MAIN and –SR tests in German. The results across TD and at risk of DLD group were compared. TD clearly outperformed at risk of DLD in SR. In elicited narratives, macrostructure and microstructure were scrutinized across groups. Similar to the previous findings, our results show significant differences between at risk of DLD und TD in the microstructure, e.g. total number of word tokens and verb-based communication units and SR. For the macrostructure, TD outperformed at risk children only for story complexity. The study expands our knowledge on the cut-off criteria for the identification of bilinguals at risk of DLD, scrutinized very early narratives for bilinguals at risk of DLD features and questions the similarity of cognitive skills in TD and at risk of DLD children.
KW  - Spracherwerb, biling.
KW  - pathologischer Spracherwerb
KW  - Erzählen, pragm.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51165
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-511654
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 62
SP  - 168
EP  - 189
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -