Naslov
Lexical diversity in bilingual speakers of Croatian and Italian

Autori
Hržica, Gordana ; Roch, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe

Urednik/ci
Armon-Lotem, Sharon ; Grohmann, Kleanthes

Izdavač
John Benjamins Publishing

Grad
Amsterdam

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica
100-129

ISBN
9789027258915

ISSN
1569-0644

Ključne riječi
bilingualism, lexical diversity, cross-language associations

Sažetak
The aim of this study was to determine whether measures of lexical diversity (LD) can be used to assess general lexical knowledge. This study focused on 30 sequential Croatian/Italian bilinguals aged between 5 and 7 years, who were compared with 30 Croatian and 30 Italian monolinguals matched in age. LD was assessed from narrative language samples using standard measures and compared with Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) results. Two LD measures, the type-token ratio (TTR) and the measure proposed by Maas (1972), did not differentiate between bilinguals and monolinguals, whereas several other did: total number of words (NTW), number of different words (NDW), measure D, moving average type- token ratio (MATTR) and hypergeometric diversity of D (HD-D). NTW, NDW, D, MATTR and HD-D were predictive of PPVT results for monolinguals, whereas NDW, TNW and D (with replacements, Dr) were predictive of PPVT results for bilinguals. Our results suggest that LD measures can be reliable measures of bilinguals’ vocabulary knowledge and can adequately reflect PPVT results in languages other than English.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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