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Elin Thordardottir
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Research
Latest papers
Sentence Comprehension and L2 Exposure Effects in 6-Year-Old Sequentially Bilingual Children With Typical Development and Developmental Language Disorder.
International journal of language & communication disorders · 2025
Biliterate Adolescents' Writing Skills in a Two-Majority Language Context.
Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2025 · senior author
The Effect of Age of First Exposure on Vocabulary, Mean Length of Utterance, Morphosyntactic Accuracy, and Semantic and Sentence-Level Patterns in the First 2 Years of French Second-Language Learning by Preschool- to Adolescent-Age Mandarin Speakers.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $44,125
Trilingualism in allophone school-age children in Quebec: opportunities and challenges
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $239,346
Long term language outcomes of bilingual children learning French: impact on school and everyday communication
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $179,925
Effects of amount and timing of bilingual exposure on bilingual acquisition
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
Sentence Comprehension and L2 Exposure Effects in 6-Year-Old Sequentially Bilingual Children With Typical Development and Developmental Language Disorder.
Smolander S, Laasonen M, Lahti-Nuuttila P, Arkkila E, Thordardottir E, Kunnari S
Biliterate Adolescents' Writing Skills in a Two-Majority Language Context.
Rioux EJ, Thordardottir E
The Effect of Age of First Exposure on Vocabulary, Mean Length of Utterance, Morphosyntactic Accuracy, and Semantic and Sentence-Level Patterns in the First 2 Years of French Second-Language Learning by Preschool- to Adolescent-Age Mandarin Speakers.
Thordardottir E, Plez L
Bilingual Adolescents' Complex Syntax Production in Both Languages Across Conversational and Expository Contexts.
Rioux EJ, Thordardottir E
Adolescent language outcomes in a complex trilingual context: When typical does not mean unproblematic.
Thordardottir E
How aware is the public of the existence, characteristics and causes of language impairment in childhood and where have they heard about it? A European survey.
Thordardottir E, Topbaş S, Working Group 3 of COST Action IS1406
Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?
Łuniewska M, Haman E, Armon-Lotem S, Etenkowski B, Southwood F, Anđelković D, Blom E, Boerma T, Chiat S, de Abreu PE, Gagarina N, Gavarró A, Håkansson G, Hickey T, de López KJ, Marinis T, Popović M, Thordardottir E, Blažienė A, Sánchez MC, Dabašinskienė I, Ege P, Ehret IA, Fritsche NA, Gatt D, Janssen B, Kambanaros M, Kapalková S, Kronqvist B, Kunnari S, Levorato C, Nenonen O, Fhlannchadha SN, O'Toole C, Polišenská K, Pomiechowska B, Ringblom N, Rinker T, Roch M, Savić M, Slančová D, Tsimpli IM, Ünal-Logacev Ö
Grammatical morphology is not a sensitive marker of language impairment in Icelandic in children aged 4-14 years.
Thordardottir E
The relationship between bilingual exposure and morphosyntactic development.
Thordardottir E
The effect of bilingual exposure versus language impairment on nonword repetition and sentence imitation scores.
Thordardottir E, Brandeker M
Trilingualism in allophone school-age children in Quebec: opportunities and challenges
Principal investigators: Thordardottir, Elin T.
Keywords: multilingualism; trilingualism; second language; third language; school-age; incidental English; language exposure; French; Arabic
Long term language outcomes of bilingual children learning French: impact on school and everyday communication
Principal investigators: Thordardottir, Elin T.
Keywords: bilingualism; second language; L2; longitudinal; input; age of acquisition; motivation; qualitative research; bilingual advantage
Effects of amount and timing of bilingual exposure on bilingual acquisition
Principal investigators: Thordardottir, Elin T.
Keywords: language acquisition; bilingualism; input; critical period; lexicon; syntax; language assessment; norms; minority language
Effects of bilingual exposure on lexical and syntactic development in French and English
Principal investigators: Thordardottir, Elin T.
Keywords: language acquisition; bilingualism; lexicon; syntax; morphosyntax; input; modularity; language assessment; cross-linguistic; norms
A longitudinal study of language learning in children with Down syndrome
Principal investigators: Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth R. M.
Keywords: down syndrome; bilingual; language development; language disorders
Effect of processing limitations on the acquisition and the use of verbs
Principal investigators: Thordardottir, Elin
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Annette Majnemer and Elin Thordardottir: 2 shared papers
- Alan Evans and Annette Majnemer: 1 shared paper
- Alan Evans and Elin Thordardottir: 1 shared paper
- Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
- Neurology
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
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