Fwd: Vocabulary assessment in bilingual children

[Susan Gelman]

Hi All,
Twila Tardif and her colleagues have work on this as well (see below for references).  I'm told that the actual CDI plus manuals can be ordered for both Mandarin & Cantonese long & short forms, infants and toddlers, by contacting Twila (twila at umich.edu) or Temuulen Johnson (email: temuulen at umich.edu).  

Tardif, T., Fletcher, P., Zhang, Z.X., Liang, W.L., & Zuo, Q.H. (2008).  The Chinese Communicative Development Inventory (Putonghua and Cantonese versions): Manual, Forms, and Norms.  Peking University Medical Press.

Tardif, T., Fletcher, P., Liang, W.L, & Kaciroti, N. (2009).  Early vocabulary development in Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese.  Journal of Child Language, 36, 1115-1144.  PMID: 19435545.


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>> From: Ping Li <pingpsu at gmail.com>
>> Date: July 19, 2011 10:39:20 AM EDT
>> To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: Re: Vocabulary assessment in bilingual children
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>> 
>> To follow up on Annick's message, you might be interested in the following paper related to Chinese CDI (downloadable from http://cogsci.psu.edu/):
>> 
>> Hao, M, Shu, H., & Li, P. 2008. Early vocabulary inventory for Mandarin Chinese. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 728-733.
>> 
>> Ping Li
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Annick De Houwer <annickej at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Leher,
>>> 
>>> I would strongly advise using the CDI. I know it is not usually used
>>> to measure receptive vocabulary, but the Dutch CDI (Toddler form) does
>>> include receptive vocabulary and the parents in our study of Dutch-
>>> French bilingual toddlers had no trouble ticking those Dutch words
>>> they thought their 20-month-old understood. Of course, you're dealing
>>> with older children, but I think that if the main purpose is to have a
>>> rough idea of comparative vocabulary size in each language it is OK to
>>> use the CDI as suggested. However, there are some methodological
>>> issues involved in collecting the data. A description of how we did
>>> this for a group of bilingual children can be found in
>>> 
>>> De Houwer, A., M.H. Bornstein & S. De Coster, 2006. Early
>>> understanding of two words for the same thing: A CDI study of lexical
>>> comprehension in infant bilinguals. International journal of
>>> bilingualism 10(3): 331-348.
>>> 
>>> Good luck!
>>> 
>>> Annick
>>> De Houwer
>>> 
>>> On Jul 19, 9:52 am, Leher Singh <leher.si... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> We are looking for ways to assess receptive vocabulary in bilingual children
>>>> (30 and 36 months) in each of their languages (Mandarin Chinese and
>>>> English). We are looking for a way to administer a vocabulary test to
>>>> estimate vocabulary sizes in each language. Essentially, we want to
>>>> compare receptive vocabulary across languages to get a sense of dominance
>>>> with which to associate our experimental data on word recognition. One idea
>>>> we have considered is to administer the PPVT version A in English/Mandarin
>>>> and version B in the other language, but any other ideas would be much
>>>> appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks, Leher
>>> 
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Susan A. Gelman
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology
530 Church St.
University of Michigan
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