Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism

Our study investigates the use of articles and object clitics in the L2-Greek of child speakers of Russian with and without Specific Language Impairment. Effects of language impairment were examined in the narratives of children whose languages differ in the expression of definiteness: Russian lacks articles and allows null objects with specific reference, while Greek requires object clitics in the same context and has definite and indefinite articles. Language impairment led to more article and