Vogt, Paul, Mastin, Douglas and Aussems, Suzanne (2015) Early vocabulary development in rural and urban Mozambique. Child Development Research, 2015 . ISSN 2090-3987.

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Abstract

This paper presents an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (short version) into three languages spoken in Southern Mozambique. The tool was adapted to study vocabulary development among children of 12 to 25 months of age in two communities: a rural, monolingual Changana speaking community and an urban bilingual Ronga and Portuguese speaking community. We present a norming study carried out with the adaptation, as well as a validation study. The norming study revealed various predictors for reported expressive and receptive vocabulary size. These predictors include age, socioeconomic status, reported health problems, caregiving practices, and location. The validation of the CDI among a small sample in both communities shows positive correlations between the reported expressive vocabulary scores and children’s recorded word production. We conclude that the adapted CDI is useful for research purposes and could be used as a template for adaptations into other languages from similar cultures.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Language acquisition -- Mozambique, Rural children -- Mozambique , City children -- Mozambique
Journal or Publication Title:	Child Development Research
Publisher:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ISSN:	2090-3987
Official Date:	1 December 2015
Dates:	Date Event 1 December 2015 Published 10 November 2015 Accepted 31 July 2015 Submitted
Volume:	2015
Number of Pages:	15
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	16 August 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	16 August 2016
Funder:	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO)
Grant number:	VIDI grant (no. 276-70-018)

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