Prof. Sharon Armon-Lotem

Unit
Linguistics
Rank
Professor
Telephone
Email
sharon.armon-lotem@biu.ac.il
Office
Bldg. 901 room 415
Reception Hours
Monday 12:00-14:00 by appt
    Fields of Interest

    Bilingual Language Acquisition

    Developmental Langugae Disorder (DLD)

    Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

    Early Bilingualism

    Child Second Language Acquisition

     

     

    CV

    PERSONAL:  Born October 15, 1962 -- Manchester, England

                            Resident of Israel since 1965

                            Married, four children

     

    HIGHER EDUCATION

    1997

    Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University -- Linguistics, First Language Acquisition and Syntax. Dissertation:   The Minimalist Child: Parameters and                                        Functional Heads in the Acquisition of Hebrew.

    1990

    MA  Magna Cum Laude, Tel-Aviv University -- Linguistics, Syntax

    Dissertation:   Case theory and obligatory verb movement

    1986

    BA, Tel-Aviv University -- Linguistics and English Literature

     

     

    RECENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

    2018 - present

    Full Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition, Bilingualism & Specific Language Impairment --
    The English Literature and Linguistics Department, Bar-Ilan University

    2012-2018

    Associate Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition, Bilingualism & Specific Language Impairment --
    The English Literature and Linguistics Department, Bar-Ilan University

    2006-2012

    Senior Lecturer, Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition, Bilingualism & Specific Language Impairment --
    The English Department, Bar-Ilan University

    2003-present

    Fellow, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University

    1996-1999

    Visiting Researcher, Postdoctoral Studies, University of Maryland, College Park  -- Psycholinguistics: Processing studies using an eye-tracker, First & Second Language Acquisition, Specific Language Impairments

     

     

    SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

    2021

    BSF 2020263 – PI1 “Towards an Optimal Bilingual Language Instructional Model in Preschool Years (BLIMP)- $178,200 (with Altman & Restrepo)

    2021

    ISF Scientific Workshop on Typical and Atypical Arabic Language Development in Bilectal (diglossic) and Bilingual Contexts: Assessment and Intervention. ISF, 70,000NIS (with E. Saiegh-Haddad)

    2021

    Ministry of Education. New immigrants in remote learning - challenges and solutions (עולים חדשים בלמידה מקוונת – אתגרים ומענים) – 250,000NIS (with C. Altman & J. Walters)

    2020

    Erasmus+ scheme “Teacher Education About Multilingualism” – Partner together with Altman and Goldfard (led by Poznan University) 56,000EURO

    2019

    Bar Ilan Vice President of Research grant for Impact Centers. 100,000NIS (with C. Altman)

    2018-2019 ISF 454/18– PI2 " The Linguistic Profile of Preschool Arabic Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)"
    2017 Bar Ilan center of excellence research group. (with C. Altman & J. Walters)
    2017-2018 Ministry of Education. Bilingualism, Language Impairment, and Socioeconomic Status: Impact on Emergent Literacy (BLISS-EL) (with C. Altman & J. Walters)
    2014-2018 ISF – PI1 " Disentangling Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and socioeconomic influences on language acquisition and emergent literacy among preschool children with and without SLI from two bilingual disadvantaged populations" – Four years, funded from October 2014

    2011-2014

    GIF _PI1 " How can a teacher tell if a bilingual child has language impairment: A study of the language of Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school years".

    2010-2013

    ISF – PI1 “Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children A longitudinal study”

    2009-2013

    COST Action IS0804  "Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment" - Chair

    2007-2009

    BMBF (The German Ministry of Education) – “Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and Israel”. PI2 with Joel Walters (Bar-Ilan University), Natalia Gagarina (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), and Larissa Remennick (Bar-Ilan University)

    2003-2007

    ISF – PI1 “Morphological, Syntactic, and Pragmatic Representation and Processing in Bilingual Children with SLI”

     1996

    Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship

     

     

     

     

    GRADUATE STUDENTS (ALUMNI)

    Orit Amiram. 2002. The Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Hebrew - Evidence from Language Acquisition (MA)

    Efrat Harel. 2004. Very Early Child Second Language Acquisition. Do Morphological and Syntactic Differences between L1 and L2 Still Interfere? (MA)

    Efrat Shimon. 2008. The Use of Prepositions by English-Hebrew Bilingual and Bilingual SLI Children (MA)

    Michal Cohen. 2008. The Relationship between Acquisition of Wh Questions and Theory of Mind: Evidence from Pre-school High Functioning Children with ASD and Young Typically Developing Toddlers  (MA)

    Peri Iluz-Cohen. 2008. Language Proficiency, Language Control and Executive Control in Bilingual Children (MA)

    Orit Amiram. 2008. Processing of Competing Linguistic and Visual Clues by Children with SLI (Specific Language Impairment) (PhD, with Susan Rothstein)

    Idit Avram. 2008. The Autonomous Contribution of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics to the Acquisition of the Hebrew Definite System and the Relation to Theory of Mind (PhD, with Susan Rothstein)

    Bat-Sheva Keren- Levisohn. 2009. The Sociopragmatics of Variation in Hebrew Imperatives (PhD, with Joel Walters)

    Ruth Litt-Afori. 2010. The Acquisition of Conditionals by Hebrew Speaking Children (PhD, with Yael Greenberg)

    Dana Mlodinov. 2009. The narratives of bilingual children with TLD and with SLI (MA)

    Sharon Porat. 2010. The use of structures involving syntactic movement by English-Hebrew Bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (MA)

    Amal Kadri. 2010. The Early Acquisition of Palestinian Spoken Arabic Vernacular by Uni -and Bi-Dialectical Children (PhD, with Joel Walters)

    Olga Gupol 2010. The Acquisition of Russian Verbal Morphosyntax in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Children (PhD, with Susan Rothstein)

    Shira Bar Dayan. 2011. The Complexity of Scalar Implicatures: Evidence from SIs' acquisition by Hebrew- speaking typically developing children and children with autistic spectrum disorder with  (MA with Yael Greenberg)

    Tehila Shpack (MA with Malka Muchnik, Hebrew Language). 2012. Comprehension and Processing of Multiple Negation by Adolescents with Language Impairment

    Reem Bshara (PhD). 2013.  A Study of the Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Palestinian Arabic Vernacular

    Efrat Harel (PhD). 2013.  The Profile of Typically-Developing  Bilingual Children

    Odelya Ohana (MA) 2014. Using Parental Reports to assess the Language Development of English-Hebrew Bilingual children ages 2-3

    Debbie Sarig (MA) 2014. Bidirectional transfer and the functional system of English-Hebrew bilingual children with Typical Language Development (TLD) or Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

    Peri Iluz Cohen (PhD with Ronny Geva, Psychology). 2015. Language Proficiency, Executive Control and Language Control: Bilingual and Monolingual Children with Typical Language Development and with SLI

    Natalia Meir. 2016. Linguistic Profiles of Bilingual Russian-Hebrew Speaking Children: Effects of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (PhD)

    Sarit Ben Oved. 2016. Lexicon and Identity among Hebrew Speaking Children from Amharic-Hebrew Settings. (PhD)

    Karen Rose. 2018. English as a Heritage Language in Israel: The Age Effect (MA)

    Maram Amara.2018. Specific language impairment (SLI) effect on word and non-word repetition. (MA with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad)

    Ronald Shabtaev. 2018. Cross-generational Differences in Language Use among Mountain Jews in Israel – Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. (MA with Joel Walters)

    Sandy Gluck (PhD with Joel Walters & Jonathan Fine ) 2013-2019. A systemic analysis of non-related responses and their preceding questions in the autism spectrum

    Rula fauer (MA with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad) - The Effect of Diglossia on the Comprehension and Production of Syntactic Structures among Typically Developing Children (TLD) and Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) 2017-1019

    Julia Resnik (PhD). 2012 - 2020. Regular and Irregular Morphology in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Development

    Oshrat Zbib (PhD with Yael Greenberg). 2013-2020 . Children's sensitivity to Focus Effects–Question Answer Congruence and Focus Sensitive Expressions

     

    Hila Peretz (MA) - Language Competence and Executive Functions among English-Hebrew Bilingual School age Children. 2017-2021

     

     

    Research

    The research at my lab focuses on language acquisition by bilingual children who have been diagnosed for Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and combines my work on monolingual and bilingual typical acquisition with my interest in children with Specific Language Impairment. My research focuses on the one hand on the linguistic and cognitive phenomena which characterize language impairment and bilingualism in children, and on the other hand on the gap between the linguistic abilities of children and those of adults, all this against the background assumption that there is an innate language capacity which children make use of in the acquisition of language. My research interests met in two ISF funded research projects on “Morphological, Syntactic, and Pragmatic Representation and Processing in Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairments” and “Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children - A longitudinal study” which aimed at targeting the relative contribution of the linguistic impairment and the bilingual situation to the unique linguistic profile of these children. This already led to identifying indicators of SLI in English-Hebrew bilingual children and have been expanded to bilingual Russian-Hebrew children in a BMBF funded project on “Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and Israel”, which adds a sociolinguistic aspect to the issue, and a GIF  study of “How can a teacher tell if a bilingual child has language impairment: A study of the language of Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school years?”. My research is carried in coordination with COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” which offers a cross European research network.

    Courses

    Courses 2022-2023

    37-922 Psycholinguistics and research methods for graduate students (Fall 2022)

    37-989 Typical and Atypical Bilingual Development (Fall 2022)

    37-500 Language Acquisition (Spring 2023)

     

     

    Active Students

     

    Hadar Abutbul-Oz (PhD). 2015. Use of Parental Questionnaires in the diagnosis of Language Impairment among Bilingual Children -  proposal approved

    Naila Abu Shaqra (PhD with with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad) - Acquisition of verb and sentence structure in Palestinian Arabic: Typical and atypical development proposal approved

    Yael Laure (PhD). 2018. - Linear and Non-linear Processing of Templatic-Words in Hebrew among Hebrew monolinguals and L2-Hebrew speakers proposal approved

    Lina Hashoul-Essa (PhD). 2018. - Identifying risk factors for language development among Palestinian Arabic (PA) speaking children ages 18-36 months, using PA-CDI. proposal approved

    Odelya Ohana (PhD). 2018. - The Lexicon of Bilingual Children in Israel  proposal approved

    Karen Rose (PhD). 2019. – Heritage Language Outcomes: Family Language Policy and the Voice of the Child. proposal approved

    Ronald Shabtaiev (PhD with Joel Walters). 2019. Language attitudes among Mountain Jews: The case of heritage Russian and endangered Juhuri. proposal approved

    Lamese Basheer (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad). 2018.  Effect of Dialectal Variation on the Acquisition of Verbs and Nouns: A Comparison of Six Dialects of Northern Palestinian Arabic in Israel. proposal approved

    Minna Lipner (PhD with Carmit Altman). 2020. Bilingual Narrative Intervention and Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual Preschool Children.

    Maram Amara (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad). 2020. The foundations of morpho-phonological processing: Evidence from Arabic speaking children’s acquisition of non-concatenative morphology. proposal approved

    Tufuul Juma’a (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad). 2020. Sources of Variance in the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Lexicon of Palestinian Arabic (PA) speaking Kindergarteners. proposal approved

    Amna Halabi (MA with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad)

    Avigail Drori (MA)

    Shirel Apel Kadosh (MA with Carmit Altman)

    Orsolya Fazkash (PhD). 2021

    Sharon Fox (PhD with Carmit Altman). 2021

     
    Publications

    SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

     

    2022

    Sveta Fichman, Carmit Altman, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2022. The impact of language dominance on bilingual children's narrative production: Microstructure, Macrostructure, and Internal State Terms. LAB. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20036.sve

    Hadar Abutbul-Oz & Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2022. Parent questionnaires in screening for Developmental Language Disorder among bilingual children in Speech and Language Clinics. Frontiers in Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.84611

    Karen Rose, Sharon Armon-Lotem &  Carmit Altman. 2022. Profiling Bilingual Children - The Challenge of Differential Diagnosis. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_LSHSS-21-00099

    Sharon Armon-Lotem & Natalia Meir. 2022. The differential impact of age of onset of bilingualism and language exposure for bilingual children with DLD and ASD. In Flores Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.) Epistemological issue. Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Linguistiuc Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1. http://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21055.arm

     
    2021

      Carmit Altman, Efrat Harel, Natalia Meir, Peri Iluz-Cohen, Joel Walters & Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2021. Using a Monolingual Screening Test for Assessing Bilingual Children. Clinical Linguistrics and Phonectics. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2021.2000644

      Sveta Fichman, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem, Carmit Altman. 2021.  Story grammar elements, mental state terms and clausal distance in the expression of Enabling relations in narratives of bilingual preschool children. Discourse Processes. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2021.1972391

      Carmit Altman, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Sveta Fichman, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Susie Joffe, and Joel Walters. 2021. Perceptions of identity, language abilities and language preferences among Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew bilingual children and their parents. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1974462

      Minna Lipner, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Joel Walters, Carmit Altman. 2021. Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) of Lexical Breadth and Depth in the Vocabulary of Bilingual Kindergarten Children - A Bilingual Intervention Study. Frontiers in Psychology.  DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671928

      Sharon Armon-Lotem, Karen Rose & Carmit Altman. 2021. The Development of English as a Heritage Language: The Role of Chronological Age and Age of Onset of Bilingualism. First Language,41(1), 67-89 Article first published online: June 7, 2020; DOI: 10.1177/0142723720929810

       
      2020 Sharon Armon-Lotem, Adlaida Maria Restrepo, Minna Lipner, Peer Ahituv- Shlomo & Carmit Altman. Vocabulary gains in bilingual narrative intervention (BINARI). LSHSS. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00117  
      2019

      Judy Kupersmitt & Sharon Armon-Lotem. The linguistic expression of causal relations in picture-based narratives: A comparative study of bilingual and monolingual children with TLD and DLD. First Language

       
      2018

      Carmit Altman, Tamara Goldstein, Sharon Armon-Lotem. Vocabulary, metalinguistic awareness and language dominance among bilingual preschool children. Frontiers in Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01953

      Sharon Armon-Lotem. 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

       
      2017

      Sveta Fichman,  Carmit Altman, Anna Voloskovich, Sharon Armon-Lotem and Joel Walters. 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. 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 Memory. Frontiers in Psychology doi:  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01442

      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

      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

       
      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 WaltersMacrostructure, 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: http://dx.doi.org/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

      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. doi: 10.1177/1367006915609240 

      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? Behavioural Research Methods. doi:10.​3758/​s13428-015-0636-6

       

      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

      Irena Botwinik, Reem Beshara, Sharon Armon-Lotem. Children's production of relative clauses in Palestinian Arabic: Unique errors and their movement account. Lingua, 40-56

      Bibi Janssen, Natalia Meir, Anne Baker, Sharon Armon-Lotem. On-line comprehension of Russian case cues in monolingual and bilingual children with L2/Hebrew and L2/Dutch. Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press,

      Natalia Meir and Sharon Armon-LotemDisentangling bilingualism from SLI in Heritage Russian: The impact of L2 properties and length of exposure to the L2. GALA 2014  Proceedings

       

      2014

      Altman Carmit, Feldman-Burstein Zhanna, Yitzhaki Dafna, Armon-Lotem Sharon, Walters Joel. 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

      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.

       

      2013

      Iluz-Cohen, Peri & Sharon Armon-Lotem. Language proficiency and executive control in bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 16 (4), 884-899

       

      2012

       

      Sharon Armon-Lotem & Orit Amiram. The Assignment of Gender in L2 Hebrew: The Role of the L1 Gender System. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (BAALL)4,232-251 

      Sharon Armon-Lotem & Shula Chiat. 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

       

      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, 1:3, 291-317

       

      2010

      Sharon Armon-Lotem. 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, Galina Gordishevsky & Joel Walters. Instructive bilingualism: Prepositions in the Hebrew of bilingual children with SLI. Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009, 1-12

       

      2008

      Sharon Armon-Lotem, Natalia Gagarina, Carmit Altman, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Galina Gordishevsky, Olga Gupol, Joel Walters. 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. The use of prepositions by bilingual SLI children: The relative contribution of representation and processing. Language Acquisition and Development:Proceedings of GALA 2007, 41-46

       

       

      SELECTED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

           
      2021

      Carmit Altman, Tamara Goldstein, Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2022. Vocabulary, metalinguistic awareness and language dominance among bilingual preschool children in Prior, A., Degani, T., Wodniecka, Z., (Eds). Modulators of Cross-Language Influences in Learning and Processing. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88976-296-5

      Julia Reznick & Sharon Armon-Lotem (to appear in 2022) Children's command of plural marking on Hebrew nouns: Evidence from Russian-Hebrew bilingual acquisition. In Developing language and literacy: Studies in honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid,  edited by Ronit Levie, Amalia Bar-On, Orit Ashkenazi, Elitzur Dattner and Gilad Brandes (Springer, 2022).

      Natalia Meir, Susan Joffe, Ronal Shabtaev, Joel Walters & Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2021.  Heritage Languages in Israel: The multilingual tapestry with Hebrew threads. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (pp. 129-155). Cambridge University Press.

      Sharon Armon-Lotem &  Kleanthes K. Grohmann. 2021. Introduction. In Armon-Lotem &  Grohmann (Eds.) LITMUS in Action:  Comparative Studies across Europe. John Benjamins.

       
      2019

      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. Bilingualism. 2019. 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.

      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.

       
      2018

      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

       
      2016

      Botwinik, Irena, Efrat Harel, and Sharon Armon-Lotem. 2016. Production of object relatives in bilingual acquisition: L1 Russian, L2 Hebrew, in Grucza, S., Olpińska-Szkiełko, M., Romanowski, P. (Eds.), Bilingual Landscape of the Contemporary World. Peter Lang Verlag: Frankfurt/Main - London - New York

       
      2015

      Theo Marinis & Sharon Armon‐Lotem. Sentence repetition. In S. Armon-Lote-Lotem, J. de Jong & N. Meir (eds.) Assessing multilingual children:  disentangling bilingualism from Specific Language Impairment. Multilingual Matters.

      Sharon Armon-Lotem & Jan de Jong. Introduction.   In S. Armon-Lotem, J. de Jong & N.  Meir (eds.) Assessing multilingual children:  disentangling bilingualism from Specific Language Impairment. Multilingual Matters. 

      Sharon Armon‐Lotem, Carmit Altman, Susan Joffe, Hadar Oz‐Abutbul, Joel Walters. Ethno‐linguistic identity, language exposure and language acquisition in bilingual preschool children from English and Russian‐speaking backgrounds. In Theres Grüter & Johanne Paradis (Eds.) Input and Experience in Bilingual Development. TILAR series, John Benjamins, 77-98.

       
      2014

      Joel Walters, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Carmit Altman, Nathalie Topaj & Natalia 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

      Natalia Gagarina, Joel Walters, Annegret Klassert, Nathalie Topaj, Carmit Altman, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, and  Sharon 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

      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. To appear in V. C. Mueller Gathercole (Ed.), Bilinguals and assessment: State of the art guide to issues and solutions from around the world. Multilingual Matters. (In press)

       

      2012

      Olga Gupol, Susan Rothstein and Sharon Armon-Lotem. The development of L1 tense-aspect morphology in Russian-Hebrew bilinguals. In Emmanuelle Labeau  & Ines Saddour(ed), Tense, Aspect and Modality Acquisition in L1 and L2. Cahiers Chronos 24, 73-106. Rodopi Publishers.

       

      2011

       

      Sharon Armon-Lotem, Galit Adam, Anat Blass, Jonathan Fine, Efrat Harel, Elinor Saiegh-Haddad and Joel Walters. Verb inflections as indicators of Bilingual SLI: qualitative vs. quantitative measurements. In M. Leikin, Y. Tobin & M. Schwartz (eds.), Current Issues in Bilingualism: Cognitive and Socio-Linguistic Perspectives, 179-200. Springer

       

      2010

      Sharon Armon-Lotem & Joel Walters. 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, 463-488. London: Taylor & Francis

       

       

      2009

      Sharon Armon-Lotem. 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.

       

      2008

       

      Sharon Armon-Lotem. What can we learn from children's errors before the age of two: the acquisition of possession and verb agreement. In Galia Hatav (ed), Balshanut Ivrit Teoretit (Theoretical Hebrew Linguistics), Magnes: 309-337 (in Hebrew)

      Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein. Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics. In S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon and S. Rothstein (eds), Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, in the series "Linguistics Today". John Benjamins: 1-23

      Sharon Armon-Lotem. The interaction between question formation and verbal morphology in the acquisition of Hebrew – a Minimalist perspective. In S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon and S. Rothstein (eds), Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, in the series "Linguistics Today". John Benjamins: 223-242

      Sharon Armon-Lotem. Subject object asymmetry in children’s comprehension of sentences containing logical words. In Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Larrañaga, P. and Clibbens, J. (eds.) (Forthcoming). First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across Languages and Learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

       

      BOOK (EDITOR)

       

      2015 S. Armon-Lotem, J. de Jong & N. Meir (eds.) Assessing multilingual children:  disentangling bilingualism from Specific Language Impairment. Multilingual Matters

      2009

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

      2008

      S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon and S. Rothstein (eds), Generative Approaches to Hebrew Linguistics, in the series "Linguistics Today". John Benjamins.

       

      SPECIAL ISSUES/BOOKS (EDITOR)

       

      2021 S. Armon-Lotem & Kleanthes K. Grohmann. (2021) Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in Action across Europe, [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29], John Benjamins.
      2015 S. Armon-Lotem, J. de Jong & N. Meir (eds.) 2015. Assessing multilingual children:  disentangling bilingualism from Specific Language Impairment. Multilingual Matters

      2012

      S. Armon-Lotem (ed.), Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 15 (1)

       

       

      Last Updated Date : 13/06/2023