Intro -- Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction to atypical language development in romance languages -- Introduction -- Typical language acquisition in Romance languages -- Atypical language development -- Preterm children -- Specific Language Impairment -- Deaf children -- Genetic syndromes -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Preterm children -- Neuroconstructivism to understand the effect of very preterm birth on language and literacy -- Rethinking preterm birth with the neuroconstructivist approach -- Effects of preterm birth on communication and language development -- Acquisition and consolidation of literacy -- Interventions -- Conclusions -- References -- Prematurity, executive functions and language -- Introduction -- Method -- Participants -- Instruments -- Procedure -- Analyses performed -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Risk for language delay in healthy preterm and full-term children -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Measures and instruments -- Linguistic measures -- Cognitive and other contextual measures -- Procedure -- Analyses performed -- Results -- Descriptive language, cognitive and environmental measures in PR and FT children -- PR and FT children's RLD from 22 to 60 months -- Predicting RLD at 22, 30 and 60 months -- Discussion -- References -- Word segmentation and mapping in early word learning -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Measures -- Results -- Familiarization phase -- Test phase -- BSID-III measures of cognitive and language development -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix 1. -- Part II. Specific Language Impairment.

The influence of maternal education on the linguistic abilities of monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment -- Overview -- Family and socioeconomic status -- Family and language development -- Risk factors associated to language difficulties -- Goals -- Methodology -- Participants -- Selection criteria -- Instruments -- Experimental task -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Results -- Interaction between clinical diagnosis of SLI and ME level -- Discussion -- Limitations -- Conclusions -- References -- A. Appendix -- Idiom understanding competence of Spanish children with Specific Language Impairment and Pragmatic Language Impairment -- Introduction -- Figurative language and idiom understanding -- Idiom understanding in children with SLI and PLI -- Aims and hypothesis -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Language measures -- Idiom understanding tasks -- a. Verbal condition -- Visual condition -- Procedure -- Results -- I. Between-group comparisons on key and related measures -- II. Within-group comparisons between verbal and visual conditions -- III. Correlations between idiom understanding (verbal condition) and language measures -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Evaluation of narrative skills in language-impaired children -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Material -- Procedure -- Measures -- Results of Study 1 -- Results of Study 2 -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Real-time comprehension of sentences in children with SLI -- Introduction -- Experiment 1 -- Methodology -- Participants -- Procedure -- Results -- Discussion -- Experiment 2 -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Results -- Discussion -- Experiment 3 -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Results -- Discussion -- General discussion.

Appendix A. Sentences used in Experiment 1 -- Appendix B. Experimental sentences of Experiment 2 -- Appendix C. Sentences used in the Experiment 2 -- References -- Part III. Deafness -- Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss -- Introduction -- Deficits in emotion recognition in children with hearing loss -- Language and emotion recognition in children with hearing loss -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Results -- Descriptive statistics -- Correlations between emotion recognition and language -- Predictors of emotion recognition -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Executive functions and eye fixations in children with Cochlear Implant -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Language -- Executive Functions -- Visual Fixation Patterns -- Discussion -- References -- Genetic syndromes with intellectual disabilities -- The relationship between the lexicon and grammar in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome -- Introduction -- Lexical-grammatical relationships in children with Down Syndrome (DS) -- Method -- Participants -- Instruments -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- Results -- Associations between vocabulary and grammar -- Vocabulary composition and vocabulary levels -- Grammatical word types relationships to grammatical structures in Group 2 -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Profiles of grammatical morphology in Spanish-speaking adolescents with Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Procedure -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Evaluative language and component structure of oral narratives in Williams Syndrome -- Introduction -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure and coding -- Results -- Narrative structure.

Narrative evaluation: Evaluative expressions -- Narrative evaluation: Evidential markers -- Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Index.

This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages.

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