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2021
2021

Natalia Meir, Susan Joffe, Ronal Shabtaev, Joel Walters & Sharon Armon-Lotem.

2021  Heritage languages of Israel: a multilingual tapestry with Hebrew threads. In Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages, pp. 129-155..

2020
2020

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Adlaida Maria Restrepo, Minna Lipner, Peer Ahituv-Shlomo

& Carmit Altman. 2020. Vocabulary gains in bilingual narrative intervention (BINARI). LSHSS. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00117

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Karen Rose & Carmit Altman. 2020. The Development of

English as a Heritage Language: The Role of Chronological Age and Age of Onset of Bilingualism. First Language  https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723720929810

2019
2019

Armon-Lotem, Sharon, & Meir, Natalia. 2019. The nature of exposure and input in

early bilingualism. In A. De Houwer & L. Ortega (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of bilingualism (pp. 193–212). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press    

 

Judy Kupersmitt & Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2019. The linguistic expression of

causal relations in picture-based narratives: A comparative study of bilingual and monolingual children with TLD and DLD. First Language. Doi:10.1177/0142723719831927 

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2019. Bilingual Children With Specific Language

Impairment. In Jack S. Damico &  Martin J. Ball (eds.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (pp.277-280). Sage Publications Inc. DOI: 10.4135/9781483380810.n89

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem & Carmit Altman. 2019. Bilingualism. In Jack S. Damico

&  Martin J. Ball (eds.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (pp. 284-288). Sage Publications Inc. DOI: 10.4135/9781483380810.n91.

2018

Carmit Altman, Tamara Goldstein, Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2018. Vocabulary,

metalinguistic awareness and language dominance among bilingual preschool children. Frontiers in Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01953

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2018. SLI in bilingual populations. In Amalia Bar-On, Elitzur

Datner and Dorit Ravid (eds.)  Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives.  (pp. 615-639). Mouton de Gruyter DOI 10.1515/9781614514909-031

 

Efrat Harel, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Irena Botwinik. 2018. Passive comprehension in

bilingual acquisition: L1 English, L2 Hebrew. In Pedro Guijarro Fuentes & Cristina Suarez (Eds.), Language acquisition and development: Proceedings of GALA 2017. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars

2018
2017

Sveta Fichman,  Carmit Altman, Anna Voloskovich, Sharon Armon-Lotem and Joel

Walters. 2017. Story grammar elements and causal relations in the narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with SLI and typical development. Journal of Communication Disorders. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2017.08.001

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2017. Variations in Phonological Working memory: the

contribution of impaired representation and bilingual processing. Applied Psycholinguistics 38:6, 1305-1313

Natalia Meir & Sharon Armon-Lotem. Independent and Combined Effects of

Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Bilingualism on Children’s Vocabulary and Verbal Short-Term MemoryFrontiers in Psychology

 

Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas. Language

impairment in bilingual children: State of the art. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3-4,  265-276.

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem & Odelya Ohana. A CDI study of bilingual English-Hebrew

children - frequency of exposure as a major source of variation. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 20(2), 201-217.

 

Carmit Altman, Tamara Goldstein & Sharon Armon-Lotem. Quantitative and

qualitative differences in the lexical knowledge of monolingual and bilingual children. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1312533

 

Ewa Haman, Magdalena Łuniewska, Pernille Hansen, Hanne Gram Simonsen,

Shula Chiat, Jovana Bjekić, Agnė Blažienė, Katarzyna Chyl, Ineta Dabašinskienė, Pascale Engel de Abreu, Natalia Gagarina, Anna Gavarró, Gisela Håkansson, Efrat Harel, Elisabeth Holm, Svetlana Kapalková, Sari Kunnari, Chiara Levorato, Josefin Lindgren, Karolina Mieszkowska, Laia Montes Salarich, Anneke Potgieter, Ingeborg Ribu, Natalia Ringblom, Tanja Rinker, Maja Roch, Daniela Slančová, Frenette Southwood, Roberta Tedeschi, Aylin Müge Tuncer, Özlem Ünal-Logacev, Jasmina Vuksanović, Sharon Armon-Lotem. Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: data from cross-linguistic lexical tasks (LITMUS-CLT). Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553.

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem. Disentangling bilingualism from SLI: Dissociating exposure

and input. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 20(1), 33-34. doi:10.1017/S1366728916000377

 

Ciara O’Toole, Daniela Gatt, Tina Hickey, Ewa Haman, Sharon Armon-Lotem,

Anneta Miekisz,  Tania Rinker, Odelya Ohana, Christof dos Santos, S. Kern, Parent report of early lexical production in bilingual children: A cross-linguistic MB-CDI comparison. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 20 (2), 124-145. 10.1080/13670050.2016.1179258

2017
2016
2016

Natalia Meir, Joel Walters & Sharon Armon-Lotem. Bidirectional morpho-syntactic

transfer: the role of age of onset and language proficiency. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. http://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15007.mei

 

Sarit H. Ben Oved & Sharon Armon-Lotem Ethnolinguistic Identity and Lexical

Knowledge among Children from Amharic Speaking Families. Israel Studies in Language and Society 8 (1-2), 238-275.

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem & Natalia Meir. Diagnostic accuracy of repetition tasks for

the identification of specific language impairment (SLI) in bilingual children: evidence from Russian and Hebrew. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 51(6):715-731 DOI:10.1111/1460-6984.12242

 

Natalia Meir, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem. Disentangling bilingualism

and SLI using Sentence Repetition: the impact of L1 and L2 properties.  International Journal of Bilingualism. 20 (4), 421-452 doi: 10.1177/1367006915609240

 

Carmit Altman, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Sveta Fichman & Joel Walters.

Macrostructure, microstructure and mental state terms in the narratives of English-Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without SLI. Applied Psycholinguistics 37(1), 165-193 DOI:10.1017/S0142716415000466

 

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Ewa Haman, Kristine Jensen de Lopez, Magdalena

Smoczynska, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Marcin Szczerbinski, Angeliek van Hout,  Ineta Dabasinskiene, Anna Gavarró, Erin Hobbs, Laura Kamandulyte, Napoleon Katsos, Sari Kunnari, Chrisa Nitsiou, Lone Sundahl Olsen, Uli Sauerland, Reeli Torn-Leesik, Heather van der Lely A large scale crosslinguistic investigation of the acquisition of passive. Language Acquisition 23 (1), 27-56. DOI:10.1080/10489223.2015.1047095

2015
2015

Magdalena Łuniewska , Ewa Haman, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bartłomiej

Etenkowski, Frenette Southwood, Darinka Anđelković, Elma Blom, Tessel Boerma, Shula Chiat, Pascale Engel de Abreu, Natalia Gagarina, Anna Gavarró, Gisela Håkansson, Tina Hickey, Kristine Jensen de López, Theodoros Marinis, Maša Popović, Elin Thordardottir, Agnė Blažienė, Myriam Cantú Sánchez, Ineta Dabašinskienė, Pınar Ege, Inger-Anne Ehret, Nelly-Ann Fritsche, Daniela Gatt, Bibi Janssen, Maria Kambanaros, Svetlana Kapalková, Bjarke Kronqvist, Sari Kunnari, Chiara Levorato, Olga Nenonen, Siobhán Nic Fhlannchadha, Ciara O’Toole, Kamila Polišenská, Barbara Pomiechowska, Natalia Ringblom, Tanja Rinker, Maja Roch, Maja Savić, Daniela Slančová, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Özlem Ünal-Logacev. Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words? Behavior Research Methods, 48(3), 1154–1177. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0636-6

 

Botwinik, I., Beshara, R. & S. Armon-Lotem. Children's production of relative

clauses in Palestinian Arabic: Unique errors and their movement account. Lingua, 40-56. DOI information: 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.10.00

2014
2014

Armon-Lotem S.  Between L2 and SLI: inflections and prepositions in the

Hebrew of bilingual children with TLD and monolingual children with 
SLI
Journal of Child Language, 41(1), 1-31.

Altman C., Feldman-Burstein Z., Yitzhaki D., Armon-Lotem S., Walters J. Family

language policies, reported language use and proficiency in Russian-Hebrew bilingual children in Israel, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 35(3), 216-234

Walters, J., Armon-Lotem, S., Altman, C., Topaj, N. & N. Gagarina. Social Identity

and Language Proficiency in Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German preschool children. In Rainer K. Silbereisen, Yossi Shavit & Peter F. Titzmann (Eds.) The Challenges of Diaspora Migration in Today’s Societies -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Research in Israel and Germany.  Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK

Gagarina, N., Walters, J., Klassert, A., Topaj, N., Altman, C., Burstein-Feldman, Z.,

&  S. Armon-Lotem. The impact of internal and external factors on linguistic performance in the home language and in L2 among Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German preschool children. In Rainer K. Silbereisen, Yossi Shavit & Peter F. Titzmann (Eds.) The Challenges of Diaspora Migration in Today’s Societies -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Research in Israel and Germany.  Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK

2013
2013

Iluz-Cohen, P. & S. Armon-Lotem. Language proficiency and executive control in

bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16 (4), 884-899

Armon-Lotem, S., Altman,C., Burstein, Z. & J. Walters. Sociolinguistic aspects of

the language of immigrant Hebrew speaking children. In Shmuel Bolozky, Geoffrey Khan, Gary Rendsburg, Aaron Rubin, Ora Schwarzwald & Tamar Zewi (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (EHLL), Vol 2, 232-236. Boston-Leiden: Brill

Chiat, S., Armon-Lotem, S., Marinis, T., Polisenska, K., Roy, P., & Seeff-Gabriel, B.

The potential of sentence imitation tasks for assessment of language abilities in sequential bilingual children. In V. C. Mueller Gathercole (Ed.), Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals. 56-89. Multilingual Matters.

2012
2012

Armon-Lotem S. & O. Amiram. The Assignment of Gender in L2 Hebrew: The Role

of the L1 Gender System. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (BAALL) 4 (1), 232-251 http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/18776930/4/1.

Armon-Lotem, S. & S. Chait. How do sequential bilingual children perform on non-

word repetition tasks? In Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia E. Kimball (eds.) Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press, 53-62

Armon-Lotem, S. Introduction: Bilingual children with SLI - the nature of the

problem. Bilingualism:Language and Cognition 15 (1), 1–4

2011
2011

Armon-Lotem, S., N. Gagarina & J. Walters. The impact of internal and external

factors on linguistic performance in the home language and in L2 among Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German preschool children, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Earlier
2010

Armon-Lotem. S. 2010. Instructive bilingualism: can bilingual children with SLI rely

on one language in learning a second one? Applied Psycholinguistics 31:2, 29-36

Sharon Armon-Lotem & Joel Walters. 2010. An approach to differentiating

bilingualism and language impairment. In J. Guendouzi, F. Loncke & M. Williams (eds.) The Handbook of Psycholinguistic & Cognitive Processes: Perspectives in Communication Disorders. London: Taylor & Francis

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Galina Gordishevsky & Joel Walters. 2010. Instructive

bilingualism: Prepositions in the Hebrew of bilingual children with SLI. GALA proceedings

2009

Armon-Lotem. S. 2009. The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology in First and Second

Language. In A. Feuer, S. Armon-Lotem & B. Cooperman (eds.). Issues in the Acquisition and Teaching of Hebrew. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland

Armon-Lotem, S., Adam, G., Saiege-Haddad, E., Blass, A., Harel, E. & J. Walters.

2009. Verb inflection as indicators of SLI among bilinguals: Task effects and Cross-Linguistic Differences. Safa Vemoax 8, 1-20. Tel-AvivUniversity (in Hebrew)

2008

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Natalia Gagarina, Carmit Altman, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman,

Galina Gordishevsky, Olga Gupol, Joel Walters. 2008. Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Israel. Israel Studies in Language and Society, Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society, 155-177

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon & Joel Walters. 2008. The use of prepositions

by bilingual SLI children: The relative contribution of representation and processing. Proceedings of the Generative Assembly on Language Acquisition, 41-46

Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2008. Subject object asymmetry in children’s

comprehension of sentences containing logical words. In Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Larrañaga, P. and Clibbens, J. (eds.). First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across Languages and Learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Galit Adam, Elinor Siege-Haddad, Joel Walters. 2008. Verb

inflection as indicators of Bilingual SLI: Task effects and Cross-Linguistic Differences. Child Language Seminar Electronic Proceedings.

Some Earlier Publications

Natalia Gagarina, Sharon Armon –Lotem, Olga Gupol. 2007. Developmental

variation in the acquisition of L1 Russian verb inflection by monolinguals and bilinguals. Electronic supplement to the proceedings of the 31st Annual BUCLD, Cascadilla Press (2007).

Sharon Armon-Lotem.2006.  Subject use and the acquisition of Verbal Agreement

in Hebrew. In N. Gagarina and I.Guelzow (ed.), Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments. Kluwer Academic Publishers: 269-291

Sharon Armon-Lotem, Irena Botwinik-Rotem & Seagull Birka. 2006. The

acquisition of relative clauses in Hebrew: prepositions and resumptive pronouns. In Proceedings of the Generative Assembly on Language Acquisition, University of Siena, Italy, 1-14

Armon-Lotem, S. 2005. The acquisition of subordination:

From preconjunctionals to later use. In Dorit Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot(eds.) Perspectives on language and language development. Kluwer: 192-204 .

Armon-Lotem, S. & Avram, I. 2005. The Autonomous Contribution of Syntax and

Pragmatic: The Acquisition of the Hebrew Definite Article. In Anne-Marie Di Sciullo and R. Delmonte (eds.) Universal Grammar and the External systems. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 169-182

Armon-Lotem S., S. Crain. and S. Varlokosta. 2004.  Interface Conditions in Child

Language: A Crosslinguistic Look at some Aspects of Possession. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, Volume 12, issue  3&4, 171-217

Armon-Lotem, S.  and R.A. Berman. 2003. The Emergence of Grammar: Early

Verbs and Beyond. Journal of Child Language, 30.4: 845-877

Armon-Lotem, S.  2001. Checking on CHECKING. In Galina M. Alexandrova, G. M.

and O. Arnaudova (eds.) The Minimalist Parameter.  John Benjamins Publishing Company: 47-58

Armon-Lotem, S. 2000. Language Attrition: Why are Resumptive Pronouns so

Susceptible? In S. Catherine Howell, Sarah A. Fish, and Thea Keith-Lucas (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th Annual BUCLD, Cascadilla Press: 58-67.

Sypridoula, V. and Armon-Lotem, S. 1998. Resumptives and wh-movement in the

acquisition of relative Clauses in Modern Greek and Hebrew. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual BUCLD, Cascadilla Press.

Armon-Lotem, S. 1998. Mommy Sock in a Minimalist Eye: On the Acquisition of DP

in Hebrew: In Z.Penner and N. Dittmar, eds. Issues in the Theory of Language Acquisition. Peter Lang AG, European Academic Publishers (1998).

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