Acquisition of Romani in a Bilingual Context

• Authors: Hristo Kyuchukov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents research findings from research on Roma children and their acquisition of different grammatical categories in the Romani language. Results from three different studies with Roma children from Bulgaria are discussed: acquisition of mental state verbs (MSV), Bates-MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) in Romani and subtests from DELV (Seymour, Roeper, & de Villiers, 2005). All the testing and research shows that Roma children follow the paths of normally developing children in their language development. Roma children are able to correctly use nouns, verbs, wh-questions and to assume different communicative roles.

Keywords

EN

Romani; acquisition; language development

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 211-225

Dates

published

2014-11-01

online

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Hristo Kyuchukov

• St. Elizabeth University, Bratislava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/plc-2014-0015