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Elin Thordardottir

Elin Thordardottir

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
33
Citations
4711
World Ranking
7111
National Ranking
422

Overview

Elin Thordardottir is a researcher affiliated with McGill University in Canada, specializing primarily in the field of Psychology with a strong focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their work spans 27 publications in psychology, including notable subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Linguistics and Language, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The main topics addressed in Thordardottir's research include Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Multilingual Education and Policy, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Stuttering Research and Treatment, and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

Thordardottir's publication record includes articles in several scholarly journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Communication Disorders
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Enfance
  • International Journal of Bilingualism

Significant recent papers by Thordardottir include:

  • 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 (2020, Journal of Communication Disorders)
  • Adolescent language outcomes in a complex trilingual context: When typical does not mean unproblematic (2020, Journal of Communication Disorders)
  • National language in a globalised world: are L1 and L2 adolescents in Iceland more interested in learning English than Icelandic? (2021, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development)
  • Nonword repetition to identify DLD in older school-age children (2022, Enfance)

Their research has garnered citations indicating engagement from the academic community, with the 2020 European survey paper receiving the highest number of citations among these recent works.

Frequent coauthors that have collaborated with Thordardottir include:

  • Eve Julie Rioux
  • Ludivine Plez
  • Seyhun Topbaş
  • Heather Jean Reid
  • Myrto Brandeker

Thordardottir's contribution to the intersection of language disorders and multilingualism is highlighted by their studies on language impairment in childhood, bilingual verbal fluency, and adolescent language outcomes in diverse linguistic contexts. Their multidisciplinary approach incorporates aspects from linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience to address questions related to language development, disorder identification, and educational policy relevant to multilingual populations.

Best Publications

  • The relationship between bilingual exposure and vocabulary development

    Elin Thordardottir

  • Bilingual assessment: Can overall proficiency be estimated from separate measurement of two languages?

    Elin Thordardottir;Alyssa Rothenberg;Marie-Eve Rivard;Rebecca Naves

  • The effect of bilingual exposure versus language impairment on nonword repetition and sentence imitation scores.

    Elin Thordardottir;Myrto Brandeker

  • The language abilities of bilingual children with Down syndrome.

    Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird;Patricia Cleave;Natacha Trudeau;Elin Thordardottir

  • Language-specific effects of task demands on the manifestation of specific language impairment: a comparison of English and Icelandic.

    Elin Thordardottir

  • A working memory, not bilingual advantage, in controlled attention

    Mahchid Namazi;Elin Thordardottir

  • Sensitivity and Specificity of French Language and Processing Measures for the Identification of Primary Language Impairment at Age 5.

    Elin Thordardottir;Eva Kehayia;Barbara Mazer;Nicole Lessard

  • The relationship between bilingual exposure and morphosyntactic development

    Elin Thordardottir

  • Early lexical and syntactic development in Quebec French and English: implications for cross‐linguistic and bilingual assessment

    Elin T. Thordardottir

  • Complex sentence production by adolescents with Down syndrome

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Robin S. Chapman;Laura Wagner

  • Language assessment via parent report: development of a screening instrument for Icelandic children

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Susan Ellis Weismer

  • Specific language impairment in French-speaking children: beyond grammatical morphology.

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Mahchid Namazi

  • The acquisition of consonants in Québécois French: A cross-sectional study of pre-school aged children

    Andrea A. N. MacLeod;Ann Sutton;Natacha Trudeau;Elin Thordardottir

  • 12. Proposed Diagnostic Procedures for Use in Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Contexts

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  • Mean length of utterance and other language sample measures in early Icelandic

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Susan Ellis Weismer

  • Towards evidence-based practice in language intervention for bilingual children.

    Elin Thordardottir

  • Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

    Magdalena Łuniewska;Ewa Haman;Sharon Armon-Lotem;Bartłomiej Etenkowski

  • The Clinical Spectrum of Developmental Language Impairment in School-Aged Children: Language, Cognitive, and Motor Findings

    Richard I. Webster;Caroline Erdos;Karen Evans;Annette Majnemer

  • Verb argument structure weakness in specific language impairment in relation to age and utterance length

    Elin T Thordardottir;Susan Ellis Weismer

  • Vocabulary learning in bilingual and monolingual clinical intervention

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Susan Ellis Weismer;Mary E. Smith

  • Continuity in lexical and morphological development in Icelandic and English-speaking 2-year-olds:

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Susan Ellis Weismer;Julia L. Evans

  • Monolingual or Bilingual Intervention for Primary Language Impairment? A Randomized Control Trial.

    Elin Thordardottir;Geneviève Cloutier;Suzanne Ménard;Elaine Pelland-Blais

  • Content mazes and filled pauses in narrative language samples of children with specific language impairment.

    Elin T. Thordardottir;Susan Ellis Weismer

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Ellis Weismer
Susan Ellis Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Annette Majnemer
Annette Majnemer McGill University
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Julia L. Evans
Julia L. Evans The University of Texas at Dallas
Theodoros Marinis
Theodoros Marinis University of Konstanz
Shula Chiat
Shula Chiat City, University of London
Robin S. Chapman
Robin S. Chapman University of Wisconsin–Madison

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