Naslov
Lexical and grammatical development of late talkers in Croatian

Autori
Kuvač-Kraljević, Jelena ; Kovačević, Melita ; Cepanec, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Skup
The Second European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 28.05.2008. - 31.05.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
lexical development; grammatical development; CDI; late talkers

Sažetak
The term late talkers marks those groups of children whose language development is delayed significantly or does not follow the trajectory of typical language development. The first indicator of language delay is vocabulary that is age-inadequate. Parallel to increase of age, expressive vocabulary becomes weaker (Rescorla et. Al, 1997, Rescorla & Lee, 2000.). Some researchers conducted longitudinally studies (Fischel et al., 1989, Reasorla, 1997.) emphasing that vocabulary delay in late talkers tends to be resolved after 3 year of age. It is still not defined the reason why significant portion of late talkers (roughly half of them) continue to develop their language skills as typically developing children. MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI) as a scale for estimating and following child language development could be a good tool for detecting those children with language development delay from the very beginning of language acquisition. If the certain number of lexical units is prerequisite for grammar development (Bates 1997, Kovačević et. al., 2005.) than the main question is how late talkers develop their grammar in respect of vocabulary delay. The aim of this study is to define the features of grammatical development of late talkers and to test the validity of MB-CDI for a group of late talkers. Similarly, as it has been found in other languages, it has been confirmed that a) lexical development can serve as a good predictor of grammatical development and b) poor grammatical development becomes versified and fortified as age increase. Also, our study shows that MB-CDI can be valid instrument for early detection of late talkers.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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