Adapting MAIN to Irish (Gaeilge)
- 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.
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| Author: | Mary-Pat O’Malley, Stanislava Antonijevic |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558751 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.565 |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | 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 |
| Publisher: | Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/10/13 |
| GND Keyword: | Irisch; Spracherwerb; Sprachtest |
| Page Number: | 12 |
| First Page: | 127 |
| Last Page: | 138 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 471536393 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Spracherwerb / Language acquisition |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 64 = New language versions of MAIN |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-559588 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
