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Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages : data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT) |
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| Author: | Haman, Ewa1; Łuniewska, Magdalena1; Hansen, Pernille2; |
| Organizations: |
1Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 2MultiLing, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 3City University London, London, UK
4Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia
5Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania 6Language and Cognitive Development Group, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 7Research Area Language Development and Multilingualism (FB II), Leibniz-ZAS Berlin, Berlin, Germany 8Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 9Lund University, Lund, Sweden 10Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts, Tel-Aviv, Israel 11Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia 12Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 13University of Padua, Padua, Italy 14Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 15Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa 16Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 17Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany 18Faculty of Arts, Prešov University, Prešov, Slovakia 19Health Sciences Faculty, Health Sciences Faculty, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey 20School of Health Science, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey 21Bar-Ilan University, Ramat- Gan, Israel |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 2.3 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201801101219 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Informa,
2017
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| Publish Date: | 2018-01-10 |
| Description: |
AbstractThis 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. see all
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| Series: |
Clinical linguistics & phonetics |
| ISSN: | 0269-9206 |
| ISSN-E: | 1464-5076 |
| ISSN-L: | 0269-9206 |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 11-12 |
| Pages: | 818 - 843 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
6121 Languages |
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| Funding: |
The research presented here was partially supported by Berliner Senate and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany [grant number 01UG1411]; the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme [grant number 223265]; the National Science Centre, Poland [grant number 809/N-COST/2010/0]; Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [grant number 0046/DIA/2013/42]; Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw [grant number BST2015-1744/4]; Ministry for Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia [grant number 175012]; the Slovak Research and Development Agency [grant number APVV-0410-11]; Harry Crossley Foundation and National Research Foundation of South Africa [grant number 88631];Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain [grant number FFI2014-56968-C4-1-P]; and Åke Wiberg Foundation [grant number H14-0104], Birgit and Gad Rausing Foundation (Sweden) [grant number S14-14]. We also acknowledge support from International Visegrad Fund partially enhancing collaboration reported in this article [grant number 21420015]. All pictures used for CLTs are subject of copyright of University of Warsaw (Poland). |
| Copyright information: |
Published with license by Taylor & Francis.© Ewa Haman, Magdalena Łuniewska, Pernille Hansen, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Shula Chiat, Jovana Bjekić, Agnė Blažienė, Katarzyna Chyl, Ineta Dabašinskienė, Pascale Engel de Abreu, Natalia Gagarina, Anna Gavarró, Gisela Håkansson, Efrat Harel, Elisabeth Holm, Svetlana Kapalková, Sari Kunnari, Chiara Levorato, Josefin Lindgren, Karolina Mieszkowska, Laia Montes Salarich, Anneke Potgieter, Ingeborg Ribu, Natalia Ringblom, Tanja Rinker, Maja Roch, Daniela Slančová, Frenette Southwood, Roberta Tedeschi, Aylin Müge Tuncer, Özlem Ünal-Logacev, Jasmina Vuksanović, and Sharon Armon-Lotem.
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