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

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; 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; Sharon Armon-Lotem

doi:10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553

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

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, Laia Montes SalarichAnneke Potgieter, Ingeborg Ribu, Natalia Ringblom, Tanja Rinker, Maja Roch, Daniela Slančová, Frenette Southwood, Roberta Tedeschi, Aylin Müge Tuncer, Özlem Ünal-Logacev, Jasmina Vuksanović, Sharon Armon-Lotem

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

Bar-Ilan University

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	818-843
Number of pages	26
Journal	Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
Volume	31
Issue number	11-12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553
State	Published - 2017

Keywords

Lexical development
basic word classes
cross-linguistic comparison
word comprehension
word production

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Speech and Hearing
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Hansen, P., Simonsen, H. G., Chiat, S., Bjekić, J., Blažienė, A., Chyl, K., Dabašinskienė, I., Engel de Abreu, P., Gagarina, N., Gavarró, A., Håkansson, G., Harel, E., Holm, E., Kapalková, S., Kunnari, S., Levorato, C., Lindgren, J., ... Armon-Lotem, S. (2017). Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT). Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31(11-12), 818-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553

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Haman, E, Łuniewska, M, Hansen, P, Simonsen, HG, Chiat, S, Bjekić, J, Blažienė, A, Chyl, K, Dabašinskienė, I, Engel de Abreu, P, Gagarina, N, Gavarró, A, Håkansson, G, Harel, E, Holm, E, Kapalková, S, Kunnari, S, Levorato, C, Lindgren, J, Montes Salarich, L, Potgieter, A, Ribu, I, Ringblom, N, Rinker, T, Roch, M, Slančová, D, Southwood, F, Tedeschi, R, Tuncer, AM, Ünal-Logacev, Ö, 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)', Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, vol. 31, no. 11-12, pp. 818-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553

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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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