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Intwining of lexical and grammatical development in highly inflected language : the Croatian adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI

The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) is a method of assessing communicative skills in infants and young children by means of parental reports. The ease of administration has made it feasible for the first time to study language development in large samples. Several new phenomena have been described, in particular by the group around Liz Bates, which appear to be very robust. The instruments have during the past 12 years been translated and adapted to over 30 different languages or cultures. This symposium focuses on how robust several of these phenomena are by systemizing data from eleven different languages and cultures and relating them to US data. Robustness across languages is required for all candidates of language universals. All presentations will focus on the following six issues ; i. developmental trends in vocabulary comprehension and production ii. correlation between gestures, vocabulary comprehension and vocabulary production at 12, 14 and 16 months iii. mean and SD of vocabulary size for children that “ sometimes” combines words iv. correlation between vocabulary production and grammar (e.g. MLU) at 16, 20, 24 and 28 months v. What the instruments predicts vi. Reflections on characteristic language features that the instrument misses.

MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI); child language

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