Martha Crago
Canadian linguist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martha Crago is the Vice-Principal of Research and Innovation at McGill University. She is an internationally known expert on language acquisition, specializing in studying language acquisition across languages and learner groups. Crago received a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from McGill University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in communication sciences and disorders from McGill in 1988. She was employed at McGill from 1971 to 2005 and the University of Montreal from 2005 to 2007. She was the Vice-president of Research at Dalhousie University from 2007 until accepting her current position. She has also served as a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics from 2005 to 2006. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in December 2017.
Martha Crago's Published Works
Published Works
- Dual Language Development and Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning (2004) (660)
- Familial aggregation of a developmental language disorder (1991) (619)
- French-English bilingual children with SLI: how do they compare with their monolingual peers? (2003) (287)
- Lexical acquisition over time in minority first language children learning English as a second language (2008) (250)
- Tense and temporality: a comparison between children learning a second language and children with SLI. (2000) (177)
- The Acquisition of Tense in English: Distinguishing child second language from first language and specific language impairment. (2008) (126)
- Bilingual children's acquisition of the past tense: a usage-based approach. (2011) (123)
- Early passive acquisition in Inuktitut (1996) (114)
- Domain-General Versus Domain-Specific Accounts of Specific Language Impairment: Evidence From Bilingual Children's Acquisition of Object Pronouns (2006) (110)
- Changing patterns of language socialization in Inuit homes. (1993) (90)
- Communicative Interaction and Second Language Acquisition: An Inuit Example (1992) (89)
- The Morphosyntax of Specific Language Impairment in French: An Extended Optional Default Account (2001) (89)
- Culturally Based Miscommunication in Classroom Interaction (1997) (81)
- Ethnography and language socialization: A cross‐cultural perspective (1992) (50)
- French-English Bilingual Children's Acquisition of the Past Tense (2007) (45)
- Early Finiteness in Inuktitut: The Role of Language Structure and Input (2001) (44)
- Object clitics and their omission in child L2 French: The contributions of processing limitations and L1 transfer* (2011) (44)
- Development of Communicative Competence in Inuit Children: Implications for Speech-Language Pathology (1990) (41)
- The Induction Year Experience in a Cross-cultural Setting. (1995) (35)
- Verb morphology deficits in Arabic-speaking children with specific language impairment (2008) (34)
- Teaching Beliefs in Mohawk Classrooms: Issues of Language and Culture (1996) (33)
- Chronic otitis media and hearing deficit among native children of Kuujjuaraapik (Northern Quebec): a pilot project. (1987) (32)
- Transforming Classroom Discourse: An Inuit Example. (1994) (32)
- Using ethnography to bring children's communicative and cultural worlds into focus (1991) (31)
- Dual language development & disorders: A handbook on bilingualism & second language learning, Vol. 11 (2004) (31)
- The Effect of Majority Language Exposure on Minority Language Skills: The Case of Inuktitut (2006) (30)
- Building the case for impairment in linguistic representation: Inuktitut data (1994) (26)
- Comparing L2 and SLI grammars in child French: Focus on DP (2004) (23)
- French-English bilingual children’s sensitivity to child-level and language-level input factors in morphosyntactic acquisition (2014) (23)
- Two of a kind? The importance of commonalities and variation across languages and learners (2003) (21)
- CASLPA Position Paper on Speech-Language Pathology Audiology in the Multicultural, Multilingual Context (1997) (18)
- French-English Bilingual Children With SLI (2003) (18)
- Variation in instructional discourse features: Cultural or linguistic? Evidence from Inuit and non-Inuit teachers of Nunavik (2003) (17)
- Exploring innateness through cultural and linguistic variation (1997) (17)
- "We Went Home, Told the Whole Story to Our Friends": Narratives by Children in an Algonquin Community (1996) (16)
- Language socialization in Canadian Aboriginal Communities (2008) (16)
- Bilingual Children's Acquisition of English Inflection: The Role of Language Dominance and Task Type (2008) (15)
- Education in Aboriginal Communities: Dilemmas around Empowerment. (1993) (14)
- Observations on the prevalence of ear disease in the Inuit and Cree Indian school population of Kuujjuaraapik. (1986) (13)
- Power and Deference: Bilingual Decision Making in Inuit Homes. (1998) (12)
- What Can SLI Tell Us about Transfer in SLA (2003) (12)
- Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut. (1989) (11)
- Feeling Right - Approaches to a Familys Culture (1993) (11)
- From families to phenotypes: Research into the genetic basis of specific language impairment (1994) (11)
- Issues of Complexity in Inuktitut and English Child Directed Speech (1998) (10)
- The use of the ENNI to assess story grammar competency of school-aged French speaking children with and without specific language impairment (2010) (8)
- Inuit efforts to maintain face: elements from classroom discourse with Inuit children. (1993) (7)
- Linguistic and cultural aspects of simplicity and complexity in Inuktitut child directed speech (1997) (7)
- Culture, conversation, and the co-construction of interaction: Implications and applications for intervention (1994) (6)
- Toward full empowerment in Native education: Unanticipated challenges (2001) (6)
- Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults (2009) (5)
- Exploring innateness through cultural and linguistic variation: An Inuit example (1997) (5)
- Crosslinguistic perspectives on syntax and semantics of language disorders (2008) (4)
- Language impairment in children: Cross-linguistic studies (2004) (3)
- Second Language Acquisition: An Inuit Example (1992) (3)
- Culturally based audiological services for hearing impaired Inuit in northern Quebec (1990) (3)
- The Acquisition of Tense in English : Distinguishing child L 2 from L 1 and SLI ( in press , Applied Psycholinguistics ) (2008) (2)
- The Roles of L 1 Transfer and Processing Limitations in the L 2 Acquisition of French Object Clitic Constructions : Evidence from Chinese-and Spanish-speaking Learners (2010) (2)
- Who's important...here anyway? Co-constructing research across cultures (1997) (1)
- Evaluation of Minority-Language Children by Native Speakers. (1985) (1)
- Obstacles, challenges, and solutions: evolution in audiological service delivery to the hearing-impaired Inuit of northern Quebec. (1991) (1)
- French language acquisition in North America (1998) (1)
- Commentary: What genetics can and cannot learn from PET studies of phonology (1996) (1)
- Object clitics and their omission in child L 2 French : The contributions of processing limitations and L 1 transfer ∗ THERES GRÜTER (0)
- Language Socialization in Canadian Indigenous Communities (2016) (0)
- Context and structure: Stories from a Canadian Aboriginal community (1996) (0)
- Reaction and Conference Summary (2003) (0)
- ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD Microscopic examination (2007) (0)
- An international working group on otitis and hearing with Aboriginal populations (1991) (0)
- Good News, Bad News: Graduate Studies and Research in the Canadian Context (2003) (0)
- Who Speaks What Language and Why?: Language Use of Families in an Inuit Community. (1996) (0)
- First Language Evaluation by Native Speakers: A Preliminary Study Etude preliminaire de revaluation de la langue maternelle des autochtones (1991) (0)
- Martha Crago (Draft Profile) (2014) (0)
- The accuracy of parents and teachers' judgement of Inuit children's hearing status (1987) (0)
- Two languages, two morphemes: bilingual acquisition as a source of information about early language development (1996) (0)
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