L. Cornips | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University | Meertens Institute Amsterdam
This study focuses on the relationship between dialect use and the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary by young children in the Dutch province of Limburg. The results of a newly-developed dialect expressive vocabulary task show extensive inter-individual variation that does not support a dichotomous distinction between monolingual and bidialectal children. The children’s dialect vocabulary scores are neither positively nor negatively associated with their results on a standardized receptive Dutch vocabulary task. Thus, the acquisition of a dialect does not hinder or facilitate the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary.
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Blom, Elma
2023. Lexical and cognitive development of children learning regional languages: Studies from the Netherlands. Nordlyd 47:2 ► pp. 5 ff.
2022. A Longitudinal Comparison of Spelling and Reading Comprehension of Bidialectal and Monolingual Dutch Speaking Children in Primary School. In Handbook of Literacy in Diglossia and in Dialectal Contexts [Literacy Studies, 22], ► pp. 219 ff.
Blom, Elma, Tessel Boerma, Evelyn Bosma, Leonie Cornips, Kirsten van den Heuij & Mona Timmermeister
2020. Cross-language distance influences receptive vocabulary outcomes of bilingual children. First Language 40:2 ► pp. 151 ff.
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