title: Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish.
abstract: Investigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and semantically rich prepositions. This study used a parent report adapted for Irish, to measure vocabulary development longitudinally for children aged between 1,04 and 3,04. The findings indicated that the children learned closed-class words at relatively smaller vocabulary sizes compared to children acquiring other languages, and had a strong preference for nouns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. c.otoole@ucc.ie
authors.forename: Ciara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Toole
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary