Measures of Naturalistic Language for Dialect-Speaking Children: The Case of Cypriot Greek

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作者
Voniati, Louiza [1 ]
Armostis, Spyros [2 ]
Tafiadis, Dionysios [3 ]
机构
[1] European Univ, Dept Hlth Sci Speech & Language Therapy, CY-2404 Nicosia, Cyprus
[2] Univ Cyprus, Dept English Studies, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
[3] Univ Ioannina, Dept Speech & Language Therapy, Ioannina 45110, Greece
关键词
Language Sample Analysis; naturalistic measures; Cypriot Greek; toddlers; typical development; MEAN LENGTH; LEXICAL DIVERSITY; SAMPLE MEASURES; GRAMMATICAL DEVELOPMENT; SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL-CHILDREN; UTTERANCE; MLU; IMPAIRMENT; FRENCH;
D O I
10.3390/languages8010021
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
The aim of this study was to longitudinally examine mean length of utterance in words (MLU-w) and number of different words (NDW) and their association in children speaking Cypriot Greek (CG), a dialect for which such measures of language development have not been adequately investigated. Language samples from 36 typically developing monolingual CG-speaking children were collected at 4-month intervals from the age of 3;0 until 4;0 through free-play based conversation between the children and their caregivers. A zero-order correlation analysis among MLU-w, NDW, and age showed strong positive correlations between any two of these measures. A first-order analysis controlling for age showed that the correlation between MLU-w and NDW was independent from the influence of age. The study provides valuable information on the correlation between MLU-w and NDW for CG-speaking children and it contributes to our knowledge about language development in a dialectal variety lacking standardised tests.
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