“…Word Association Task (WAT) is a non-standardized task that measures lexical-semantic organization and it was used in previous studies for assessment of vocabulary depth in DLD children (McGregor et al, 2012;Sandgren et al, 2021;Sheng & McGregor, 2010a), typically developing bilingual children (Peña et al, 2003), as well as in children with other developmental disorders which include language impairment (Küçük & Acarlar, 2022;McGregor et al, 2012). Free association task was used because it shows directly the strength of connections within the lexicon itself (Nelson et al, 2005), thus reducing the possibility of the influence on syntactic abilities which may be the case with the word definition task.…”