Relations between vocabulary growth and indications of grammatical development in the Serbian CDIs data
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Adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates’ CDIs for the Serbian language have provided pilot data on 126 children of 8-30 months of age. To explore the validity of data analyses were conducted on vocabulary size as well as on the items dedicated to grammatical development. The results showed a steady increase by age in receptive and expressive vocabulary size on both CDI questionnaires in all semantic domains. In contrast to early vocabularies typical for young children (up to 21 months of age) primarily composed of nouns, the elder children (from 22 months onwards) gradually made the transition to the usage of verbs, adverbials, and other close-classed function words. Steady growth was also found in older children on items dedicated to further grammatical development (the transition to the 3rd year of age). Moreover, complex morphological properties of Serbian language enabled exploration of the relationship between the vocabulary size and the growth of grammar at three different types of i...ndications – how vocabulary growth is related with the use of functional words, the use of morphological marking, and the syntactic complexity of utterances in children’s production.
The results showed that grammatical development is closely related to the increase in children's productive vocabulary size. Vocabulary size appeared to be a better predictor of early usage of morphologically marking than of syntactic complexity of utterances and the usage of functional words. Even though conducted on a limited sample, the analyzes also revealed bimodal distribution across age in the relationship between vocabulary and grammatical growth thus supporting previous findings that the dependence changes over developmental course.
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vocabulary development / grammatical development / language acquisition / language assessment / CDI / Serbian / razvoj rečnika / gramatički razvoj / usvajanje jezika / procena jezičkih sposobnosti / srpski jezikSource:
8th European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories, 14 - 17 May. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2022Publisher:
- University of Helsinki. University of Zagreb, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet. CAAS, Dubrovnik
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- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200163 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200163)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200167 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200167)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200018 (Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200018)
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- Informacija dostupna na: https://www.erf.unizg.hr/hr/novosti/2500-8th-european-network-meeting-on-communicative-development-inventories-u-dubrovniku-14-17-svibnja-2022 i https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-medicine/research/disciplines/department-psychology-and-logopedics
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CONF AU - Anđelković, Darinka AU - Savić, Maja AU - Ševa, Nada AU - Tutnjević, Slavica PY - 2022 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4665 AB - Adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates’ CDIs for the Serbian language have provided pilot data on 126 children of 8-30 months of age. To explore the validity of data analyses were conducted on vocabulary size as well as on the items dedicated to grammatical development. The results showed a steady increase by age in receptive and expressive vocabulary size on both CDI questionnaires in all semantic domains. In contrast to early vocabularies typical for young children (up to 21 months of age) primarily composed of nouns, the elder children (from 22 months onwards) gradually made the transition to the usage of verbs, adverbials, and other close-classed function words. Steady growth was also found in older children on items dedicated to further grammatical development (the transition to the 3rd year of age). Moreover, complex morphological properties of Serbian language enabled exploration of the relationship between the vocabulary size and the growth of grammar at three different types of indications – how vocabulary growth is related with the use of functional words, the use of morphological marking, and the syntactic complexity of utterances in children’s production. The results showed that grammatical development is closely related to the increase in children's productive vocabulary size. Vocabulary size appeared to be a better predictor of early usage of morphologically marking than of syntactic complexity of utterances and the usage of functional words. Even though conducted on a limited sample, the analyzes also revealed bimodal distribution across age in the relationship between vocabulary and grammatical growth thus supporting previous findings that the dependence changes over developmental course. PB - University of Helsinki. University of Zagreb, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet. CAAS, Dubrovnik C3 - 8th European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories, 14 - 17 May. Dubrovnik, Croatia T1 - Relations between vocabulary growth and indications of grammatical development in the Serbian CDIs data UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4665 ER -
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Anđelković, D., Savić, M., Ševa, N.,& Tutnjević, S.. (2022). Relations between vocabulary growth and indications of grammatical development in the Serbian CDIs data. in 8th European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories, 14 - 17 May. Dubrovnik, Croatia University of Helsinki. University of Zagreb, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet. CAAS, Dubrovnik.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4665
Anđelković D, Savić M, Ševa N, Tutnjević S. Relations between vocabulary growth and indications of grammatical development in the Serbian CDIs data. in 8th European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories, 14 - 17 May. Dubrovnik, Croatia. 2022;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4665 .
Anđelković, Darinka, Savić, Maja, Ševa, Nada, Tutnjević, Slavica, "Relations between vocabulary growth and indications of grammatical development in the Serbian CDIs data" in 8th European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories, 14 - 17 May. Dubrovnik, Croatia (2022), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4665 .