Lexical and grammatical development in trilingual speakers of isiXhosa, English and Afrikaans

Background: There is a dearth of normative data on linguistic development among child speakers of Southern African languages, especially in the case of the multilingual children who constitute the largest part of this population. This inevitably impacts on the accuracy of developmental assessments o...

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Published in:	South African journal of communication disorders Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. e1 - 11
Main Author:	Potgieter, Anneke P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	South Africa African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS 20.05.2016 AOSIS (Pty) Ltd AOSIS South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association (SASLHA)
Subjects:	Acquisition African languages Afrikaans language Bilingualism Bootstrap method Bootstrapping Child development Child, Preschool Children Communication Developmental delays Ethnicity - education Germanic languages Humans Language acquisition Language Development Language Development Disorders - diagnosis Language Development Disorders - ethnology Language Development Disorders - psychology Language disorders Language dominance Language policy Language skills Languages Linguistics - education Monolingualism Multilingualism Normative data Original Research Residential preferences Semantics South Africa South African English Speech disorders Studies Syntactic structures Trilingualism Vocabulary Vocabulary development Vocabulary learning Xhosa language South Africa
ISSN:	0379-8046, 2225-4765, 2225-4765
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