Child Language Statistics

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The children's language statistics concerned as a discipline of both the language statistics and the child language research ( language acquisition ) with statistical surveys to children's language . The aim is to statistically record the progress a child makes in acquiring their mother tongue and to compare it with that of other children. The task of child language statistics includes problems of "data collection (corpus formation)" and "the language statistical description and evaluation of ... data volumes." (Klappentext zu Wagner (Hrsg.) 1992)

subjects

In the course of language acquisition research, many topics (overview: Kegel 1987) were also processed statistically, including

  • Development of Lauterwerbs
  • Progress in the acquisition of morphology and syntax
  • Building the vocabulary
  • Development of the pace of speech
  • Differences in language acquisition among the sexes
  • socially determined differences

Laws in language acquisition

The surveys of child language statistics enable studies to be carried out to determine whether the findings on the course and current state of an acquisition process support the hypothesis that language and language use are lawful; this hypothesis was tested in a number of cases with positive results. For example, following a suggestion by Wagner, Köhler and Altmann, it was possible to show that the expansion of vocabulary is subject to the same model that defines the Piotrowski law , which models the change in a language (Best 2003, 2006). This means that child language statistics can also be used for quantitative linguistics .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Best : On the development of vocabulary and speaking skills in children. In: Göttingen Contributions to Linguistics. 9, 2003, pp. 7-20.
  • Karl-Heinz Best: Laws in first language acquisition. In: Glottometrics 12, 2006, pp. 39–54 (PDF full text ).
  • Karl-Heinz Best: LinK: Linguistics in a nutshell with an outlook on quantitative linguistics. 5th revised edition. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2008. Chapter: The logistic law as a model for the acquisition of mother tongue vocabulary , pages 124–129.
  • Karl-Heinz Best, Otto Rottmann: Quantitative Linguistics, an Invitation . RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2017, ISBN 978-3-942303-51-4 . Chapter: The Logistic Law in Language Acquisition , pp. 131–135.
  • Gerd Kegel: language and speaking of the child. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-22059-4 .
  • Klaus R. Wagner (Hrsg.): Child language statistics. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-89206-499-7 .
  • D.Pregel / G. Rickheit: The vocabulary in elementary school age. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 1987

Web links

Wiktionary: Child language statistics  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus R. Wagner, Gabriel Altmann, Reinhard Köhler: To the total vocabulary of children. In: Klaus R. Wagner (ed.): Vocabulary acquisition . Peter Lang, Bern et al. 1987, pp. 128–142, reference: p. 139, formula 8.