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Title: A Cypriot Greek adaptation of the CDI: Early production of translation equivalents in a Bi-(dia)lectal context
Authors: Taxitari, Loukia 
Kambanaros, Maria 
Grohmann, Kleanthes K. 
Major Field of Science: Medical and Health Sciences
Field Category: Clinical Medicine
Keywords: Bilingual word learning;Language acquisition;Mutual exclusivity;Vocabulary development
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2015
Source: Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2015, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 122-145.
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Start page: 122
End page: 145
DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501003
Journal: Journal of Greek Linguistics 
Abstract: The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (cdi) has been widely used to study children's word production in both monolingual and bilingual contexts, in typical and atypical populations, and for the study of different aspects of language development, such as the use of mutual exclusivity. In this study, an adaptation of the cdi in Cypriot Greek is used to collect production data for post-vocabulary spurt children growing up in a bilectal community, where two different varieties of a language are used. Parents report that their children use translation equivalents for a single concept, and these increase as their total word production increases. Also girls seem to produce more translation equivalents than boys overall. This suggests that lexical development in bilectal communities might be more similar to bilingual rather than monolingual development, and that mutual exclusivity does not constrain word usage in such populations even during early word production.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/9490
ISSN: 15665844
DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501003
Rights: © Koninklijke Brill NV
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Type: Article
Affiliation : Cyprus University of Technology 
University of Cyprus 
Cyprus Acquisition Team 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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