Dept of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag x1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
J Child Lang. 2013 Mar;40(2):415-37. doi: 10.1017/S0305000912000037. Epub 2012 Feb 23.
The aims of the study were to establish whether there is a correlation between the socioeconomic background of Afrikaans-speaking children and their performance on a dialect-neutral language test, and to ascertain whether the allowance the test currently makes for parental education level is sufficient. The Afrikaans version of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation (Seymour, Roeper & de Villiers, 2005a ) was administered to 231 Afrikaans-speaking children age 4 ; 0 to 9 ; 11 from various socioeconomic backgrounds. A positive correlation was found between the composite language scores as well as the scores for each of the language domains (syntax, pragmatics, semantics) and the primary female caregivers' highest level of education. Children with father figures present did not outperform those without. It appears that the original manner of accommodating parental education level in interpreting the children's language scores on the test is sufficient and need not be refined for the South African context.
研究目的在于确定南非荷兰语儿童的社会经济背景与其在非方言语言测试中的表现之间是否存在相关性，并确定该测试目前对父母教育水平的补偿是否足够。对来自不同社会经济背景的 231 名 4 岁零 0 至 9 岁 11 个月的南非荷兰语儿童进行了语言变异诊断评估（Seymour、Roeper 和 de Villiers，2005a）。复合语言分数以及每个语言领域（语法、语用学、语义）的分数与主要女性照顾者的最高教育水平呈正相关。有父亲形象的孩子并不比没有父亲的孩子表现得更好。似乎在解释测试中儿童语言分数时，原始的适应父母教育水平的方式是足够的，不需要为南非的情况进行细化。
