Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)
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ABSTRACT This article investigates the cross-linguistic comparability of the newly developed lexical assessment tool Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT). LITMUS-CLT is a part the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery (Armon-Lotem, de Jong & Meir, 2015). Here we analyse results on receptive and expressive word knowledge tasks for nouns and verbs across 17 languages from eight different language families: Baltic (Lithuanian), Bantu (isiXhosa), Finnic (Finnish), Germanic (Afrikaans, British English, South African English, German, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Swedish), Romance (Catalan, Italian), Semitic (Hebrew), Slavic (Polish, Serbian, Slovak) and Turkic (Turkish). The participants were 639 monolingual children aged 3;0–6;11 living in 15 different countries. Differences in vocabulary size were small between 16 of the languages; but isiXhosa-speaking children knew significantly fewer words than speakers of the other languages. There was a robust effect of word class: accuracy was higher for nouns than verbs. Furthermore, comprehension was more advanced than production. Results are discussed in the context of cross-linguistic comparisons of lexical development in monolingual and bilingual populations.
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Penulis (33)
E. Haman
Magdalena Łuniewska
Pernille Hansen
H. Simonsen
S. Chiat
J. Bjekić
Agnė Blažienė
Katarzyna Chyl
Ineta Dabašinskienė
Pascale M. J. Engel de Abreu
Natalia Gagarina
A. Gavarró
G. Håkansson
Efrat Harel
Elisabeth Holm
Svetlana Kapalková
Sari Kunnari
Chiara Levorato
Josefin Lindgren
Karolina Mieszkowska
Laia Montes Salarich
A. Potgieter
I. Ribu
Natalia Ringblom
T. Rinker
Maja Roch
D. Slančová
F. Southwood
R. Tedeschi
A. Tunçer
Özlem Ünal-Logačev
J. Vuksanović
Sharon Armon-Lotem
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2017
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 60×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553
- Akses
- Open Access ✓