This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity
in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition …

Despite the often-reported finding that multilingual children may temporarily possess less
advanced lexical or grammatical skills in at least one of their languages than monolingual …

Immer mehr Kinder in Deutschland wachsen mit mehreren Sprachen gleichzeitig auf. Diese
Situation birgt viele Chancen, wenngleich oft eine Herausforderung darin gesehen wird. Ziel …

Several studies on heritage language (HL) acquisition investigate a single linguistic
structure, showing how language exposure or cross-linguistic effects affect its acquisition …

This study examined potential sources of grammatical gender variability in heritage
speakers (HSs) of Italian with a focus on morphological markedness. Fifty-four adult Italian …

The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances
emergent bilingual children's narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable …

Children with autism often display discrepancies in their intellectual functioning, with
nonverbal skills frequently being more developed than verbal. Compared to monolingual …

The main aim of this study was to investigate the existence and the direction of a causal
relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and metaphor comprehension during middle …

Sentence repetition tasks (SRTs) have been extensively used as measures of bilinguals'
language abilities. Most studies relied on SRTs in which the target sentences were not …

The current study evaluated the separate and combined effects of bilingualism and Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on informativeness and definiteness marking of referential …