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https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.62.si.9

Children’s language status, not language, predicts vocabulary size: a cross-linguistic study of Croatian and Slovenian children using the CDI-III

Jelena Kuvač Kraljević orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-0851 ; Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Lidija Šmit Brleković ; Postgraduate Doctoral Programme Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia *
Barbara Penko ; Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Damjana Kogovšek ; Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

* Dopisni autor.

Sažetak

One of the most prominent characteristics of developmental language disorder (DLD) is limited vocabulary size and poor vocabulary composition. Through a cross-linguistic comparison of vocabulary breadth based on the CDI-III, we aimed to determine whether language and children’s language status can affect the vocabulary of 41- to 48-month old children with typical language development (TLD) and those with DLD. Children with DLD were observed to have a smaller vocabulary than children with TLD, even in semantic categories containing words typically acquired at earlier stages of language development. Therefore, it is not language itself that contributes to differences between groups, but rather the children’s language status, i.e.,
the presence of a language disorder (TLD vs DLD).

Ključne riječi

vocabulary development; developmental language disorder; Communicative Development Inventory – III; Croatian; Slovenian

Hrčak ID:

346301

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/346301

Datum izdavanja:

15.4.2026.

Posjeta: 155 *