Sharon Armon-Lotem

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sharon Armon-Lotem plays a role.

Titles

Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe

Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.
Subjects Language disorders & speech pathology | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017

Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics

Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor and Sharon Armon-Lotem 2024 Chapter 6. Diglossia and developmental language disorder (DLD) in Arabic: The role of linguistic distance and linguistic proximity?Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 154–183 | Chapter
‘Diglossia’ is a sociolinguistic context characterized by a stable co-existence within the same community of two linguistically related language varieties that are mostly used in different settings/functions. In Arabic, Spoken Arabic (SpA) vernaculars are used for everyday speech whereas… read more
The study explores the effect of language dominance on microstructure, macrostructure, and Internal State Terms (ISTs) in narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children and examines within-language and cross-language associations between narrative elements in two dominance groups. Narratives… read more
Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Kleanthes K. Grohmann 2021 IntroductionLanguage Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe, Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
Marinis, Theodoros, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas 2017 Language impairment in bilingual children: State of the art 2017Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017, Marinis, Theodoros, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas (eds.), pp. 265–276 | Introduction
Meir, Natalia, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem 2017 Bi-directional cross-linguistic influence in bilingual Russian-Hebrew childrenLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 514–553 | Article
This study examines cross-linguistic influence of L1 on L2 and L2 on L1 and the extent to which age of L2 onset (L2 AoO) is linked to the acquisition of morpho-syntactic properties in both languages of bilingual children who acquire L1-Russian as a heritage language and L2-Hebrew as a majority… read more
Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Susan Joffe, Hadar Abutbul-Oz, Carmit Altman and Joel Walters 2014 Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgroundsInput and Experience in Bilingual Development, Grüter, Theres and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 77–98 | Article
This chapter examines the influence of sociolinguistic and exposure factors on second language (L2) proficiency in Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew (second generation) preschool children. The children come from two distinct ethnolinguistic populations with different motivations for immigration and… read more
This paper evaluates the contribution of external background factors which pertain to the child’s environment (e.g., parents’ education, parents’ occupation, family size, etc.), and internal ones which reflect the child’s time related experience with language (e.g., chronological age, age of L2… read more
Armon-Lotem, Sharon 2008 The interaction between question formation and verbal morphology in the acquisition of Hebrew: A minimalist perspectiveCurrent Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 223–244 | Article
Question formation in Hebrew involves wh-movement, but no verb or auxiliary movement. A longitudinal study of 4 Hebrew speaking children aged 1;63;0 shows that children go through four phases in their use of questions, which are differentiated by the use of verbs and verbal morphology. The same… read more
Armon-Lotem, Sharon 2008 6. Subject-object asymmetry in children's comprehension of sentences containing logical wordsFirst Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners, Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens (eds.), pp. 137–159 | Article
This chapter investigates the influence of syntax, semantics and pragmatics on children’s understanding of sentences containing some and or, showing a subjectobject asymmetry. Chierchia, Crain, Guasti and Thornton (1998) showed that once the scalar implicature is erased (in the prediction mode),… read more
Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein 2008 Current issues in generative Hebrew linguisticsCurrent Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Armon-Lotem, Sharon 2001 Checking on CHECKINGThe Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997, Alexandrova, Galina M. and Olga Arnaudova (eds.), pp. 65–76 | Article