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Cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder: drawing of nonexistent objects
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adapt thoughts and behaviors to new environments. Previous studies investigating cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) present contradictory findings. In the current study, cognitive flexibility was assessed in 5- and 6-year-old preschoolers with DLD (<i>n</i> = 23) and peers with typical development (TD; <i>n</i> = 50) ... -
Cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder: Drawing of nonexistent objects
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adapt thoughts and behaviors to new environments. Previous studies investigating cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) present contradictory findings. In the current study, cognitive flexibility was assessed in 5- and 6-year-old preschoolers with DLD (n = 23) and peers with typical development (TD; n = 50) using a ... -
The Influence of Situational Cues on Children’s Creativity in an Alternative Uses Task and the Moderating Effect of Selective Attention
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-19)Taking a perception-action perspective, we investigated how the presence of different real objects in children’s immediate situation affected their creativity and whether this effect was moderated by their selective attention. Seventy children between ages 9 and 12 years old participated. Verbal responses on a visual Alternative Uses Task with a low stimulus and high stimulus condition were coded ... -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: the case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-15)Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 living in Canada (n = 56) and the Netherlands (n = 47). Our goal was to establish the impact of the first language (L1 = Syrian Arabic) skills on L2 (English, Dutch) outcomes and whether ... -
No Bilingual Benefits Despite Relations Between Language Switching and Task Switching
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-24)Previous research has shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing cognitive control. Bilinguals’ enhanced cognitive control is thought to be caused by the necessity to exert more language control in bilingual compared to monolingual settings. Surprisingly, between-group research of cognitive effects of bilingualism is hardly ever combined with within-group research that ... -
Nonverbal Switching Ability of Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-28)Bilingualism is associated with enhanced switching skills, while a developmental language disorder (DLD) may negatively impact switching ability. However, both studies with bilinguals as well as studies including children with DLD have revealed mixed results. Moreover, the interaction of bilingualism and DLD has not been addressed and the origin of the stronger or weaker switching performance ... -
Reading outcomes in children with developmental language disorder: A person-centered approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-22)Background and aims: Many children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) develop reading difficulties. The purpose of this study is to better understand variation in the reading outcomes of children with DLD using a personcentered approach.<p> <p>Method: 87 monolingual Dutch children diagnosed with DLD performed at ages 5 or 6 years nine tests of nonverbal IQ, oral language proficiency, ... -
Regular and irregular inflection in different groups of bilingual children and the role of verbal short-term and verbal working memory
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-22)Bilingual children often experience difficulties with inflectional morphology. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate how regularity of inflection in combination with verbal short-term and working memory (VSTM, VWM) influences bilingual children’s performance. Data from 231 typically developing five- to eight-year-old children were analyzed: Dutch monolingual children (N = 45), ... -
Robustness of the rule-learning effect in 7-month-old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-16)We conducted a close replication of the seminal work by Marcus and colleagues from 1999, which showed that after a brief auditory exposure phase, 7-month-old infants were able to learn and generalize a rule to novel syllables not previously present in the exposure phase. This work became the foundation for the theoretical framework by which we assume that infants are able to learn abstract representations ... -
Understanding variation in prospective poor decoders: A person-centred approach from kindergarten to Grade 2
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-30)In the present study, we aimed to clarify variation in prospective poor decoders by studying the development of their word decoding skills during the first 1½ years of formal reading education and their unique pre-reading profiles before the onset of formal reading education. Using structural equation modelling and a factorial mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA), we found autoregression ... -
What risk factors for Developmental Language Disorder can tell us about the neurobiological mechanisms of language development
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-21)Language is a complex multidimensional cognitive system that is connected to many neurocognitive capacities. The development of language is therefore strongly intertwined with the development of these capacities and their neurobiological substrates. Consequently, language problems, for example those of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), are explained by a variety of etiological ... -
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-11)Many children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are reported to have word reading difficulties. However, previous research has focused mostly on monolingual children. The present study used two existing datasets to assess word reading outcomes of bilingual children with DLD. In Study 1, we compared word reading outcomes of monolingual and bilingual children with and without DLD (n = 93 ...
