TY  - CHAP
A1  - O’Malley, Mary-Pat
A1  - Antonijevic, Stanislava
T1  - Adapting MAIN to Irish (Gaeilge)
T2  - New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives - revised / Natalia Gagarina & Josefin Lindgren (Eds.). Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 64
N2  - Irish (Gaeilge) is the first official language of the Republic of Ireland. It is a fast-changing, endangered language. Almost universal bilingualism (i.e. almost all Irish speakers also speak English), frequent code-switching to English, and loan words are features of the sociolinguistic context in which the language is spoken. This paper describes the adaptation of the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings - Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN, Gagarina et al., 2019) to Irish. Data was collected using the retell mode (Cat story) and the comprehension questions. Eighteen children participated ranging in age from 5;3 to 8;7 (six female and 12 male). Results suggest that story structure is not sensitive to exposure to Irish at home and indicate that MAIN Gaeilge (Irish) is a promising tool for assessing language in Irish-speaking children from a range of Irish language backgrounds.
KW  - Irisch
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - Sprachtest
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55875
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558751
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
SP  - 127
EP  - 138
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -