Evangelia Daskalaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evangelia Daskalaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evangelia |
| FAMILY NAME | Daskalaki |
| SIGNATURE | DASKALAKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5503-8079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development
The Arabic development of Syrian refugee children ( N = 133; mean age = 9;4 at Time 1) was examined over 3 time periods during their first five years in Canada. Children were administered sentence repetition and receptive vocabulary tasks in English and Arabic, and information about age-of-arrival (AOA), schooling in Arabic and language environment factors was obtained via parent report. Older AOA was associated with superior Arabic abilities acr…
Predictors of cross-linguistic influence in school-age child and adolescent heritage speakers
This study examines cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in the production of wh -questions by child heritage speakers of Mandarin aged 6;9 to 16;2 years in Canada. The form of CLI addressed is wh -fronting in Mandarin object-questions (where fronting is ungrammatical) and when -questions (where fronting is dispreferred). Our goals were, first, to determine whether the children front more frequently relative to their mothers; and second, to determine…
Switching the majority language
This study aims to understand how cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and heritage language (HL) use influence children’s HL acquisition of vocabulary, reference, and word order. To this end, we compared elicited production data collected from two groups of child heritage speakers: a group of Greek-English bilingual children (Mean Age: 10;11) residing in North America and a group of Greek-Spanish bilingual children (Mean Age: 10;09) residing in Sout…
The role of parental characteristics, home language use, and schooling in children's Mandarin heritage language development in Canada
Introduction This study on child HL (heritage language) speakers of Mandarin examines the associations between parental characteristics (attitudes and proficiency), children's HL use (at home and through schooling), and children's HL outcomes (in vocabulary and simple syntax). Methods Forty-seven Mandarin-English bilingual children of Chinese heritage (mean age: 10.5; age range: 6.8–16.2) residing in Western Canada participated in the study. All …
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers
Aims: We investigated: (1) whether differences in accuracy between heritage speakers (HS) and monolingual speakers (MS) signal differences in the path or merely in the rate of language development, and (2) whether, independently of these differences, HS become more accurate as they grow older. Methods: Using an elicitation task, we collected data from three groups of speakers of Greek: HS in the United States and Canada (78–226 months), MS of the…
Heritage language use in the country of residence matters for language maintenance, but short visits to the homeland can boost heritage language outcomes
This study examined how heritage children's experiences with the heritage language (HL) in the country of residence (e.g., children's generation, their HL use and richness) and the country of origin (e.g., visits to and from the homeland) may change as a function of the migration generation heritage children belong to, and how this may in turn differentially influence HL outcomes. Fifty-eight Greek-English-speaking bilingual children of Greek her…
Age recommendations for children’s films
Parents may rely on media content classification systems such as those on the Common Sense Media website to help make decisions about what films are appropriate for their child. In this paper, we examine the relationships between Common Sense Media “expert” age/content ratings for 7132 films and the age recommendations made by parents commenting on the site. In addition to examining the extent of correspondence between these two sources of age cl…
Sources of variation at the onset of bilingualism
Despite growing research on individual differences in child bilinguals, few studies have focused on the development of syntax, included both languages, and studied newly arrived school-age migrant children. Accordingly, this study investigated the syntactic development of heritage language (HL) Syrian Arabic and L2 English by Syrian refugee children ( N = 119) recently arrived in Canada using a sentence repetition task. Regression analyses showed…
Expectations in language processing and production
Solstad T, Daskalaki E, Järvikivi J. Expectations in language processing and production: an introduction to the special issue. Linguistics . 2021;59(2):319–331
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic-English Children
This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6-13) within their first three years in Canada. Morphosyntactic abilities were measured using sentence repetition tasks (SRTs) in English and Syrian Arabic that included diverse morphosyntactic structures. Direct measures of verbal and non-verbal cognitive skills were obtained, …
Effects of parental input quality in child heritage language acquisition
This study investigates the role of parental input quality on the acquisition of Greek as a heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing on subject use, we tested four groups of Greek speakers: monolingual children, heritage children, and the parents of each one of those groups. Participants completed an elicited production task designed to elicit subject placement in wide focus and embedded interrogative contexts, where postverbal subjects are …
Input effects across domains
A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction and to cross-linguistic influence and to what extent. According to the Interface Hypothesis, morphosyntactic phenomena regulated by discourse–pragmatic conditions are more likely to lead to non-native outcomes than strictly syntactic aspects of the language (Sorace…
Further developments in molecular sex assignment
Input effects across domains
A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction and to cross-linguistic influence and to what extent. According to the Interface Hypothesis, morphosyntactic phenomena regulated by discourse–pragmatic conditions are more likely to lead to non-native outcomes than strictly syntactic aspects of the language (Sorace…
Further developments in molecular sex assignment
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic-English Children
This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6-13) within their first three years in Canada. Morphosyntactic abilities were measured using sentence repetition tasks (SRTs) in English and Syrian Arabic that included diverse morphosyntactic structures. Direct measures of verbal and non-verbal cognitive skills were obtained, …
Further developments in molecular sex assignment
Input effects across domains
A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction and to cross-linguistic influence and to what extent. According to the Interface Hypothesis, morphosyntactic phenomena regulated by discourse–pragmatic conditions are more likely to lead to non-native outcomes than strictly syntactic aspects of the language (Sorace…
Effects of parental input quality in child heritage language acquisition
This study investigates the role of parental input quality on the acquisition of Greek as a heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing on subject use, we tested four groups of Greek speakers: monolingual children, heritage children, and the parents of each one of those groups. Participants completed an elicited production task designed to elicit subject placement in wide focus and embedded interrogative contexts, where postverbal subjects are …
Expectations in language processing and production
Solstad T, Daskalaki E, Järvikivi J. Expectations in language processing and production: an introduction to the special issue. Linguistics . 2021;59(2):319–331
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic-English Children
This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6-13) within their first three years in Canada. Morphosyntactic abilities were measured using sentence repetition tasks (SRTs) in English and Syrian Arabic that included diverse morphosyntactic structures. Direct measures of verbal and non-verbal cognitive skills were obtained, …
Age recommendations for children’s films
Parents may rely on media content classification systems such as those on the Common Sense Media website to help make decisions about what films are appropriate for their child. In this paper, we examine the relationships between Common Sense Media “expert” age/content ratings for 7132 films and the age recommendations made by parents commenting on the site. In addition to examining the extent of correspondence between these two sources of age cl…
Sources of variation at the onset of bilingualism
Despite growing research on individual differences in child bilinguals, few studies have focused on the development of syntax, included both languages, and studied newly arrived school-age migrant children. Accordingly, this study investigated the syntactic development of heritage language (HL) Syrian Arabic and L2 English by Syrian refugee children ( N = 119) recently arrived in Canada using a sentence repetition task. Regression analyses showed…
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers
Aims: We investigated: (1) whether differences in accuracy between heritage speakers (HS) and monolingual speakers (MS) signal differences in the path or merely in the rate of language development, and (2) whether, independently of these differences, HS become more accurate as they grow older. Methods: Using an elicitation task, we collected data from three groups of speakers of Greek: HS in the United States and Canada (78–226 months), MS of the…
Heritage language use in the country of residence matters for language maintenance, but short visits to the homeland can boost heritage language outcomes
This study examined how heritage children's experiences with the heritage language (HL) in the country of residence (e.g., children's generation, their HL use and richness) and the country of origin (e.g., visits to and from the homeland) may change as a function of the migration generation heritage children belong to, and how this may in turn differentially influence HL outcomes. Fifty-eight Greek-English-speaking bilingual children of Greek her…
The role of parental characteristics, home language use, and schooling in children's Mandarin heritage language development in Canada
Introduction This study on child HL (heritage language) speakers of Mandarin examines the associations between parental characteristics (attitudes and proficiency), children's HL use (at home and through schooling), and children's HL outcomes (in vocabulary and simple syntax). Methods Forty-seven Mandarin-English bilingual children of Chinese heritage (mean age: 10.5; age range: 6.8–16.2) residing in Western Canada participated in the study. All …
Switching the majority language
This study aims to understand how cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and heritage language (HL) use influence children’s HL acquisition of vocabulary, reference, and word order. To this end, we compared elicited production data collected from two groups of child heritage speakers: a group of Greek-English bilingual children (Mean Age: 10;11) residing in North America and a group of Greek-Spanish bilingual children (Mean Age: 10;09) residing in Sout…
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development
The Arabic development of Syrian refugee children ( N = 133; mean age = 9;4 at Time 1) was examined over 3 time periods during their first five years in Canada. Children were administered sentence repetition and receptive vocabulary tasks in English and Arabic, and information about age-of-arrival (AOA), schooling in Arabic and language environment factors was obtained via parent report. Older AOA was associated with superior Arabic abilities acr…
Predictors of cross-linguistic influence in school-age child and adolescent heritage speakers
This study examines cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in the production of wh -questions by child heritage speakers of Mandarin aged 6;9 to 16;2 years in Canada. The form of CLI addressed is wh -fronting in Mandarin object-questions (where fronting is ungrammatical) and when -questions (where fronting is dispreferred). Our goals were, first, to determine whether the children front more frequently relative to their mothers; and second, to determine…
Language Development and Disorders (10 works) · Heritage language (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Language development (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)