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.
Keywords:
Lexical development / cross-linguistic comparison / basic word classes / word comprehension / word production
TY - JOUR
AU - Haman, Ewa
AU - Luniewska, Magdalena
AU - Hansen, Pernille
AU - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
AU - Chiat, Shula
AU - Bjekić, Jovana
AU - Blaziene, Agne
AU - Chyl, Katarzyna
AU - Dabasinskiene, Ineta
AU - de Abreu, Pascale Engel
AU - Gagarina, Natalia
AU - Gavarro, Anna
AU - Hakansson, Gisela
AU - Harel, Efrat
AU - Holm, Elisabeth
AU - Kapalkova, Svetlana
AU - Kunnari, Sari
AU - Levorato, Chiara
AU - Lindgren, Josefin
AU - Mieszkowska, Karolina
AU - Montes Salarich, Laia
AU - Potgieter, Anneke
AU - Ribu, Ingeborg
AU - Ringblom, Natalia
AU - Rinker, Tanja
AU - Roch, Maja
AU - Slancova, Daniela
AU - Southwood, Frenette
AU - Tedeschi, Roberta
AU - Tuncer, Aylin Muge
AU - Unal-Logacev, Ozlem
AU - Vuksanović, Jasmina
AU - Armon-Lotem, Sharon
PY - 2017
UR - http://rimi.imi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/791
AB - 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.
PB - Taylor & Francis Inc, Philadelphia
T2 - Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
T1 - Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)
EP - 843
IS - 11-12
SP - 818
VL - 31
DO - 10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553
UR - conv_4174
ER -
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year = "2017",
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.",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis Inc, Philadelphia",
journal = "Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics",
title = "Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)",
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Haman, E., Luniewska, M., Hansen, P., Simonsen, H. G., Chiat, S., Bjekić, J., Blaziene, A., Chyl, K., Dabasinskiene, I., de Abreu, P. E., Gagarina, N., Gavarro, A., Hakansson, G., Harel, E., Holm, E., Kapalkova, S., Kunnari, S., Levorato, C., Lindgren, J., Mieszkowska, K., Montes Salarich, L., Potgieter, A., Ribu, I., Ringblom, N., Rinker, T., Roch, M., Slancova, D., Southwood, F., Tedeschi, R., Tuncer, A. M., Unal-Logacev, O., Vuksanović, J.,& Armon-Lotem, S.. (2017). Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT). in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
Taylor & Francis Inc, Philadelphia., 31(11-12), 818-843.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553
conv_4174
Haman E, Luniewska M, Hansen P, Simonsen HG, Chiat S, Bjekić J, Blaziene A, Chyl K, Dabasinskiene I, de Abreu PE, Gagarina N, Gavarro A, Hakansson G, Harel E, Holm E, Kapalkova S, Kunnari S, Levorato C, Lindgren J, Mieszkowska K, Montes Salarich L, Potgieter A, Ribu I, Ringblom N, Rinker T, Roch M, Slancova D, Southwood F, Tedeschi R, Tuncer AM, Unal-Logacev O, Vuksanović J, Armon-Lotem S. Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT). in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 2017;31(11-12):818-843.
doi:10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553
conv_4174 .
