Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.
Ute Bohnacker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ute Bohnacker plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
[Studies in Bilingualism, 61] 2020. vii, 341 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Narrative Studies
Articles
2022 Storytelling in bilingual Turkish-Swedish children: Effects of language, age and exposure on narrative macrostructure Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 413–445 | Article
The empirical evidence for whether narrative macrostructure skills are shared between a bilingual child’s two languages is inconclusive, and it is not known how macrostructure (overall story structure) is influenced by general language proficiency and amount of exposure. The present study… read more
2022 Storytelling in bilingual children: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills and environmental factors Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 407–412 | Review article
2022 How do age, language, narrative task, language proficiency and exposure affect narrative macrostructure in German-Swedish bilingual children aged 4 to 6? Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 479–508 | Article
Previous studies show mixed findings concerning whether higher-order story structure (macrostructure) is similar across bilinguals’ two languages. It is not known how macrostructure is influenced by general language proficiency and amount of exposure. The present study investigates these issues… read more
2021 On transfer and third language acquisition: A commentary on Schwartz & Sprouse Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 37–44 | Commentary
As this is a commentary on a paper by Schwartz and Sprouse, my understanding is that there should not be any abstract. read more
2021 MAIN story comprehension: What can we expect of a typically developing child? Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe, Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (eds.), pp. 13–46 | Chapter
This study investigates story comprehension in 124 typically-developing children aged 4–6 growing up in Sweden, using the LITMUS Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN, Gagarina et al. 2012). 72 Swedish monolinguals and 52 Swedish-English bilinguals from similar socio-economic… read more
2020 Chapter 8. Subordination in children acquiring Turkish as a heritage language in Sweden Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language, Bayram, Fatih (ed.), pp. 155–204 | Chapter
This paper investigates Turkish subordinate constructions in 201 fictional narratives told by 102 bilingual Turkish-Swedish children (age 4 to 7), growing up in Sweden with Turkish as a heritage language. All narratives were elicited with the picture sequences of the Multilingual Assessment… read more
2020 Cross-linguistic development of narrative comprehension from A to Z Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Chapter
2020 Bilingual Turkish-Swedish children’s understanding of MAIN picture sequences: Individual variation, age, language and task effects Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 99–148 | Chapter
This study investigates story comprehension in 100 bilingual Turkish-Swedish children aged 4 to 7 years, growing up in Sweden with Turkish as their home language and Swedish as the societal language. Information about language development, exposure and other background factors was obtained via… read more
2020 Vocabulary development in closely-related languages: Age, word type and cognate facilitation effects in bilingual Swedish-German preschool children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:5, pp. 587–622 | Article
This paper investigates vocabulary comprehension and production in 46 bilingual Swedish-German children age 4–6 growing up in Sweden. Using a newly developed tool, the Cross-linguistic Lexical Task (CLT, Haman, Łuniewska & Pomiechowska 2015), the children’s receptive and expressive vocabulary… read more
2020 Inferential comprehension, age and language: How German-Swedish bilingual preschoolers understand picture-based stories Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 61–98 | Chapter
This study investigates story comprehension in 46 German-Swedish 4- to 6-year-old bilinguals growing up in Sweden. The children’s inferential understanding of goals and emotions of story characters in visually presented stories was assessed in both German and Swedish, using the comprehension… read more
2005 Nonnative acquisition of Verb Second: On the empirical underpinnings of universal L2 claims The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 41–77 | Article
2004 Nominal phrases The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar, Josefsson, Gunlög, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson (eds.), pp. 195–260 | Article