Bleses Dorthe, Vach Werner, Slott Malene, Wehberg Sonja, Thomsen Pia, Madsen Thomas O, Basbøll Hans
Center for Child Language, Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
J Child Lang. 2008 Aug;35(3):619-50. doi: 10.1017/S0305000908008714.
The main objective of this paper is to describe the trajectory of Danish children's early lexical development relative to other languages, by comparing a Danish study based on the Danish adaptation of The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) to 17 comparable CDI-studies. The second objective is to address the feasibility of cross-linguistic CDI-comparisons. The main finding is that the developmental trend of Danish children's early lexical development is similar to trends observed in other languages, yet the vocabulary comprehension score in the Danish children is the lowest across studies from age 1 ; 0 onwards. We hypothesize that the delay is related to the nature of Danish sound structure, which presents Danish children with a harder task of segmentation. We conclude that CDI-studies are an important resource for cross-language studies, but reporting of studies needs to be standardized and the availability of published data improved in order to make comparisons more straightforward.
本文的主要目的是通过将一项基于丹麦语改编的麦克阿瑟-贝茨沟通发展量表(CDI)的丹麦研究与17项可比的CDI研究进行比较,来描述丹麦儿童早期词汇发展相对于其他语言的轨迹。第二个目的是探讨跨语言CDI比较的可行性。主要发现是,丹麦儿童早期词汇发展的趋势与其他语言中观察到的趋势相似,但从1岁零个月起,丹麦儿童的词汇理解得分在所有研究中是最低的。我们推测这种延迟与丹麦语音结构的性质有关,这给丹麦儿童带来了更艰巨的音段划分任务。我们得出结论,CDI研究是跨语言研究的重要资源,但研究报告需要标准化,已发表数据的可用性也需要提高,以便使比较更加直接明了。