Latvian CDI: methodology, developmental trends, and cross-linguistic comparison

Urek, Olga; Vulāne, Anna; Darģis, Roberts; Tauriņa, Agrita; Zīriņa, Tija; Simonsen, Hanne Gram

doi:10.1080/01629778.2019.1590433

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“…Data from the MB-CDI:WS are available from more than 41,000 children at Wordbank (http://wordbank.stanford.edu/) and are accessible through the R package wordbankr (Braginsky et al, 2020). This database (Frank et al, 2017) includes samples from 26 languages: Cantonese (Tardif et al, 2009), Croatian (Kovacevic et al, 1996), Czech (Markova & Smolík, 2013), Danish (Bleses et al, 2008), English (American; Fenson et al, 2007; Thal et al, 2013), English (Australian; Kalashnikova et al, 2016), French (French; Von Holzen et al, 2018), French (Quebecois; Trudeau & Sutton, 2011), German (Szagun et al, 2009), Greek (Cypriot; Taxitari et al, 2015), Hebrew (Hila Gendler Shalev, Tel Aviv University), Italian (Caselli et al, 1995), Kigiriama (Alcock et al, 2015), Kiswhahili (Alcock et al, 2015), Korean (Pae & Kwak, 2011), Latvian (Urek et al, 2019), Mandarin (Beijing; Liu & Chen, 2015; Tardif et al, 2009), Mandarin (Taiwanese; Liu & Chen, 2015), Norwegian (Simonsen et al, 2013), Portuguese (European; Irene Cadime, University of Minho); Russian (Eliseeva & Vershinina, 2009), Slovak (Svetlana Kapalková, Comenius University), Spanish (European; López Ornat et al, 2005), Spanish (Mexican; Jackson-Maldonado et al, 2003), Swedish (Eriksson & Berglund, 2002), and Turkish (Acarlar et al, 2009).…”

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Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years

Wallentin

Trecca

2023

Psychol Sci

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Does sex/gender matter for language acquisition? Small advantages in vocabulary size for females are well documented. In this study, however, we found that children’s early vocabulary composition was a significantly better predictor of sex/gender than their vocabulary size. We conducted classification analysis on word-production data from children (12–36 months old, n = 39,553) acquiring 26 different languages. Children’s sex/gender was classified at above-chance levels in 22 of 26 languages. Classification accuracy was significantly higher than for models based on vocabulary size and increased as a function of sample size. Boys produced more words for vehicles and outdoor scenes, whereas girls produced more words for clothing and body parts. Classification accuracy also increased as a function of age and peaked at 30 months, reaching accuracy levels observed in studies of adult word use. These differences in vocabulary are indicative of differences in the lifeworld of children and may themselves cause further differences in development.

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Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years

Wallentin

Trecca

2023

Psychol Sci

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“…However, involving parents in developing or validating assessment tools carries risks. For instance, the Latvian language adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for children aged 8-16 and 16-36 months encountered low parental response rates (8%), attributed to outreach challenges and unequal distribution of parental education levels (Urek et al, 2019). Prior research by Vulane et al indicated that parents' assessments could be overly optimistic or pessimistic, or even superficial, impacting the accuracy of the information provided (Vulane, Taurina, Zirina, 2016).…”

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Exploring the Consistency Between Teachers' and Parents' Ratings of Children's Language Skills

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Tomele,

Rascevska

2024

SIE

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Aim: The study investigated the correspondence between parent and teacher assessments of 3 to 6-year-old children's language skills using the Expressive and Receptive Language Scales from the Early Childhood Developmental Screening Toolkit – BAASIK (an acronym in Latvian). Material and methods: Ninety-five preschool teachers and 424 parents participated in an online survey assessing the expressive and receptive language skills of children aged 3 to 6 years. Results: Spearman's correlation analysis revealed statistically significant (p < .001) moderate to strong correlations between the ratings of children’s language skills by parents and teachers. For the Receptive Language Scales, correlations ranged from rS = .43 to rS = .6, and for the Expressive Language Scales, from rS = .54 to rS = .64. Conclusions: The study confirmed that parents’ and teachers’ assessments of children’s expressive and receptive language skills are significantly correlated. The BAASIK Expressive and Receptive Language Scales used by both parents and teachers could be effective for early screening, potentially aiding in the prompt identification of language development issues and the subsequent referral to speech and language therapy services.

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Gender differences in language are small but matter for disorders

Wallentin

2020

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

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Language is omnipresent in human life and therefore also in the brain. Gender differences in language can be signs of cognitive differences, but can also by themselves be the cause for such differences. Females have a slight linguistic advantage to males, but effect sizes are small and gender explains very little of the variance seen in the normal population (1-2%). However, males outnumber females in the lowest 10 th percentile in language tests (2:1), causing males to more often be diagnosed with developmental disorders which rely on tests of language development. Thus, gender differences in language are negligible, if you focus on the whole population, but if you focus on language deficits, gender differences are outspoken. Differences in voice and word-use can be observed among the genders, making it possible to predict gender from these measures with a high degree of certainty. A subtle finding is that women use more 1 st person pronouns. This is also observed in depression which is more prevalent in females, opening up for a potential link. Sex chromosome trisomies are often accompanied by language deficits, but the causes for this are not known. No gender differences are observed in the linguistic symptoms of neurodegenerative disorders. Post-stroke aphasia is more prevalent among women than among men, but this seems to be an age-effect. A link between the brain and gender differences in language is thus missing.

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Latvian CDI: methodology, developmental trends, and cross-linguistic comparison

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years

Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years

Exploring the Consistency Between Teachers' and Parents' Ratings of Children's Language Skills

Gender differences in language are small but matter for disorders

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