Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-speaking Children

Part I. Typical Language Development in Monolingual and Bilingual Children

1. Typical Language Development of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children
Sonia Mariscal, Alejandra Auza Benavides

2. 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

3. Bilingual and Monolingual Children’s Patterns of Syntactic Variation: Variable Clitic Placement in Spanish
Naomi L. Shin, Pablo E. Requena, Anita Kemp

Part II. Children at Risk of Language Disorders

4. Executive Functions and Language Development in Pre-Term and Full-Term Children
Miguel Pérez-Pereira, Manuel Peralbo, Alberto Veleiro

5. Processing Speed of Infants with High and Low Communicative Skills
Elda Alicia Alva Canto, Paloma Suárez Brito

6. 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, Yadira Villanueva-Romero

7. Language Delay and Amount of Exposure to the Language: Two (Un)Related Phenomena in Early Spanish-Basque Bilingualism
Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena, Iñaki García Fernández

Part III. Children with Specific Language Impairment

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

9. Connections Among Language Knowledge, Language Processing, and Nonlinguistic Cognitive Processing in Bilingual Children with Language Impairment
Kerry Danahy Ebert, Giang Pham

10. Sentence Repetition in Typical and Atypical Spanish-Speaking Preschoolers Who Are English Language Learners
Gabriela Simón-Cereijido

11. The Role of Verb Semantic Representation in Sentence Processing in Children with SLI
Llorenç Andreu, Mònica Sanz-Torrent

12. Self-Repair Timing of Lexical Problem Sources: A Window into Primary Language Impairment Online Processing
Wendy Fabiola Lara Galindo, Cecilia Rojas-Nieto

13. Narrative Comprehension and Language Skills in Chilean Children with Specific Language Impairment
Carmen Julia Coloma, María Mercedes Pavez

14. Working Memory and Morphosyntax in Children with Specific (Primary) Language Impairment
Andrea Chávez, Alejandra Auza Benavides

Part IV. Children with Syndromes and other Language Disorders

15. Morphological Profile of Williams Syndrome: Typical or Atypical?
Eliseo Diez-Itza, Verónica Martínez, Maite Fernández-Urquiza, Aránzazu Antón

16. Language Skills in Down Syndrome
Natalia Arias-Trejo, Julia B. Barrón-Martínez

17. Vocabulary and Cognitive Flexibility in People with Down Syndrome
Octavio García, Beatriz Castillo-Ignacio, Natalia Arias-Trejo

Avainsanat: Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Cognitive Linguistics