Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)

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 ana...

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Published in:	Clinical linguistics & phonetics Vol. 31; no. 11-12; pp. 818 - 843
Main Authors:	Haman, Ewa, Łuniewska, Magdalena, Hansen, Pernille, Simonsen, Hanne Gram, Chiat, Shula, Bjekić, Jovana, Blažienė, Agnė, Chyl, Katarzyna, Dabašinskienė, Ineta, Engel de Abreu, Pascale, Gagarina, Natalia, Gavarró, Anna, Håkansson, Gisela, Harel, Efrat, Holm, Elisabeth, Kapalková, Svetlana, Kunnari, Sari, Levorato, Chiara, Lindgren, Josefin, Mieszkowska, Karolina, Montes Salarich, Laia, Potgieter, Anneke, Ribu, Ingeborg, Ringblom, Natalia, Rinker, Tanja, Roch, Maja, Slančová, Daniela, Southwood, Frenette, Tedeschi, Roberta, Tuncer, Aylin Müge, Ünal-Logacev, Özlem, Vuksanović, Jasmina, Armon-Lotem, Sharon
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Taylor & Francis 01-01-2017 Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Afrikaans language Bantu languages basic word classes Bilingualism British English Catalan language Child Child Language Child, Preschool Communicative language teaching Comprehension cross-linguistic comparison Female Finnish language General Language Studies and Linguistics German language Germanic languages Hebrew language Humaniora och konst Humanities Humans Internationality Italian language Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik Language Development Language disorders Language tests Languages and Literature Lexical development Linguistics Lingvistik Lithuanian language Luxembourgish Male Monolingualism Norwegian language Nouns Romance languages Semitic languages Serbo-Croatian language Slavic languages Speech Speech Production Measurement Språk och litteratur Turkic languages Verbal tasks Verbs Vocabulary word comprehension word production Lexical development cross-linguistic comparison word comprehension basic word classes word production
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Summary:	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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ISSN:	0269-9206 1464-5076 1464-5076
DOI:	10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553