What research is CAT engaged in?
We're engaged in all kinds of research activities pertaining to first and second language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual typically developing and language-impaired children aged anything from around 2 to 7, but we're also now investigating older children and teenagers for particular aspects of language. Quite a mouthful? The following summarizes the overall CAT research objectives and the table below describes some of the current investigations in more detail.
- first language acquisition of Cypriot Greek by monolingual typically developing children
- first language acquisition of Cypriot Greek by children with language impairment
- (first or second) language acquisition by bilingual and multilingual children
- second language acquisition by children, adolescents, and adults alike
- developmental differences between Cypriot and Standard Greek
Aspect |
L2 Greek/Cypriot by L1 Russian/Georgian speakers (adolescents and adults) | • sentence completion task (written) |
|---|---|---|
Clitics |
L1 (Cypriot) Greek by mono- and bilingual children with TLD and SLI, also Hellenic Greeks and Binationals (all ages and stages starting from 2 to adulthood) |
• sentence completion task (tool from COST A33) • spontaneous speech (corpora in progress) |
Lightverbhood |
L1 Cypriot with TLD and SLI (different ages) | • sentence completion task for lexical and light verbs (plus other data to be used such as spontaneous speech) |
Narratives |
L1 Cypriot with TLD and SLI (different ages) | • retelling: Renfrew Bus Story Test, Cinderella Story and others • story-telling (in preparation) |
Non-Word Repetition |
L1 Cypriot with TLD and SLI (different ages) | [tasks to be added] |
Present Perfect |
L2 English by Greek Cypriots and Hellenic Greeks (middle and high school pupils) | [tasks to be added] |
Quantifiers |
L1 Cypriot with TLD and SLI (different ages) | [tasks to be added] |
Relative Clauses |
L1 Cypriot with TLD and SLI (different ages) | [tasks to be added] |
Scalar Implicatures |
L1 Cypriot with TLD and SLI (different ages) | [tasks to be added] |
Tense |
L1 Cypriot with TLD (5-year-olds) | • audiovisual stimuli elicitation task (tool from COST A33) |
Wh-Questions |
L1 Cypriot with TLD (different ages) | [tasks to be added] |
Clefts |
L1 Cypriot with TLD (different ages) | [tasks to be added] |
Please also visit the page detailing all CAT output here (soon with downloadable papers, handouts, presentations, and more).