sarah-ann muckley 

PhD Student and Speech and Language Therapist
Email:  s.muckley1nuigalway.ie

Background and Qualifications

I am investigating the bilingual language acquisition of young Irish/English speaking children in the Galway Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) in the west of Ireland. The purpose of this study is to inform diagnostic language testing by speech and language therapists working with this population. Such support is already widely available for speech and language therapists working with monolingual English speaking children. This research will focus on describing the morphology, syntax, language mixing and productivity of 3-5 year old children in narrative tasks in both their languages and will distinguish between differing levels of exposure to the two languages being acquired by these children. 

I hold a B.A. in Modern Irish and History from Trinity College, Dublin, a Graduate Diploma in Linguistics from University College, Dublin and an M.Sc. in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Limerick. My dissertation for the completion of the MSc programme was entitled: An investigation of the Irish language performance of 5 and 6 year old first language Irish speaking bilingual children in a narrative task. 

Posters and Presentations

Muckley, S.A. and Antonijevic, S. (2011). Language performance in 3-6 year old native Irish speaking bilingual children in a narrative task. Poster to be presented at the 12th International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, July 2011. 

Antonijevic, S. and Muckley, S.A. (2010). Language performance in 5 and 6 year old Irish speaking children in a narrative task. Poster presented at BiSLI COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment. Cyprus, October 2010.

Muckley, S.A. and Antonijevic, S. (2010). Narrative as a means of examining language production in L1 Irish speaking bilingual children. Presented at a national meeting of speech and language therapists undertaking research with Irish language speaking children, Galway, July 2010.

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