Project Type: Node
Project Start date: 1 January 2018
Project Status: Phase 1 complete; Phase 2 In Progress
Project Aims:
The aim of this project is to collect and digitize data on children’s language development from 8 to 30 months and from these data construct and validate Communicative Development Inventories (COIs), which are parent completed questionnaires (for infants 8-18 months and toddlers 16-30 months) about children’s vocabulary, gesture and grammatical abilities for all official South African languages: Setswana, Sesotho, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, Sesotho sa Leboa, Tshivenda, isiNdebele, Siswati, isiZulu and South African English.
Project Deliverables:
Six (6) pilot CDIs for infants, one for each language
Six (6) pilot CDIs for toddlers, one for each language
Twenty (20) recordings (for 5 languages-Tshivenda, Sesotho sa leboa, IsiNdebele, Isizulu, Siswati) with a minimum of 30 minutes of spontaneous speech of 04 children per language
1200 child participants data (6 languages x 200 children-Tshivenda, Sesotho sa leboa, IsiNdebele, IsiZulu, Siswati, South African English)
Conference Presentation x2 and 6 x journal articles submitted
