Spinning a yarn across languages: adapting MAIN for India
- The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) was developed to assess the narrative abilities of bi- and multilingual children in the various languages that they speak. This paper presents the details of the adaptation of MAIN to three Indian languages, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam. We describe some typological features of these languages and discuss the challenges faced during the process of adaptation. Finally, we give an overview of results for narrative comprehension and production from Kannada-English and Hindi-English bilinguals aged 7 to 9.
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| Author: | Manish Madappa, Yozna Gurung, Madhavi Gayathri Raman |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558734 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.563 |
| 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: | Indien; Spracherwerb; Sprachtest |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| First Page: | 107 |
| Last Page: | 116 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 471536385 |
| 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 |
