Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish
dc.contributor.author | O'Toole, Ciara | |
dc.contributor.author | Fletcher, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-20T17:34:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-20T17:34:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-01 | |
dc.date.updated | 2013-09-30T13:20:02Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Investigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and semantically rich prepositions. This study used a parent report adapted for Irish, to measure vocabulary development longitudinally for children aged between 1;04 and 3;04. The findings indicated that the children learned closed-class words at relatively smaller vocabulary sizes compared to children acquiring other languages, and had a strong preference for nouns. | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | CIARA O'TOOLE and PAUL FLETCHER (2012). Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish. Journal of Child Language, 39, pp 205-220. doi:10.1017/S0305000910000796. | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0305000910000796 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 220 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-7602 | |
dc.identifier.issued | 1 | en |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | Journal of Child Language | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 205 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/1313 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 39 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0305000910000796 | |
dc.rights | © Cambridge University Press, 2011. | en |
dc.subject | Early lexical development | en |
dc.subject | Young-children | en |
dc.subject | English | en |
dc.subject | Verbs | en |
dc.subject | Nouns | en |
dc.subject | Mandarin | en |
dc.subject | Hebrew | en |
dc.subject | French | en |
dc.title | Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |