Prof. Sharon Armon-Lotem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-Lotem. Disentangling 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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

2012

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