TY - GEN
T1 - Early Child Language Resources and Corpora Developed in Nine African Languages by the SADiLaR Child Language Development Node
AU - the South African Communicative Development Inventory team
AU - White, Michelle Jennifer
AU - Southwood, Frenette
AU - Yalala, Sefela
AU - Bhuda, Monicca
AU - Brink, Nina
AU - Brookes, Heather
AU - Buthelezi, Nomfundo
AU - Coetsee, Carmen
AU - Jiyana, William
AU - Khumalo, Portia
AU - Ludidi, Babalwa
AU - Makaure, Patricia
AU - Mössmer, Martin
AU - Matfunjwa, Muzi
AU - Miriri, Lufuno
AU - Ndhambi, Mikateko
AU - Ndlangamandla, Sibusiso
AU - Oosthuizen, Helena
AU - Skosana, Nomsa
AU - Alcock, Katie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Prior to the initiation of the project reported on in this paper, there were no instruments available with which to measure the language skills of young speakers of nine official African languages of South Africa. This limited the kind of research that could be conducted, and the rate at which knowledge creation on child language development could progress. Not only does this result in a dearth of knowledge needed to inform child language interventions but it also hinders the development of child language theories that would have good predictive power across languages. This paper reports on (i) the development of a questionnaire that caregivers complete about their infant’s communicative gestures and vocabulary or about their toddler’s vocabulary and grammar skills, in isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Siswati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga; and (ii) the 24 child language corpora thus far developed with these instruments. The potential research avenues opened by the 18 instruments and 24 corpora are discussed.
AB - Prior to the initiation of the project reported on in this paper, there were no instruments available with which to measure the language skills of young speakers of nine official African languages of South Africa. This limited the kind of research that could be conducted, and the rate at which knowledge creation on child language development could progress. Not only does this result in a dearth of knowledge needed to inform child language interventions but it also hinders the development of child language theories that would have good predictive power across languages. This paper reports on (i) the development of a questionnaire that caregivers complete about their infant’s communicative gestures and vocabulary or about their toddler’s vocabulary and grammar skills, in isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Siswati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga; and (ii) the 24 child language corpora thus far developed with these instruments. The potential research avenues opened by the 18 instruments and 24 corpora are discussed.
KW - Communicative development inventory
KW - child language
KW - gesture
KW - grammar
KW - vocabulary
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85195210872
T3 - 5th Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages, RAIL 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings
SP - 86
EP - 93
BT - 5th Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages, RAIL 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings
A2 - Mabuya, Rooweither
A2 - Matfunjwa, Muzi
A2 - Setaka, Mmasibidi
A2 - van Zaanen, Menno
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 5th Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages, RAIL 2024
Y2 - 25 May 2024
ER -