Journal Reviews

Semantic fluency test to investigate deaf children

1 July 2018 | | British Sign Language (BSL), deaf, executive functions, lexicon, semantic fluency, vocabulary

Semantic fluency task (SFT) is used to measure lexical organisation and executive function across the lifespan and requires participants to name examples from a particular semantic category in a specific period of time. Using this test, the authors investigated a...

English language development in bilingual toddlers

1 July 2015 | | bilingualism, language delay and assessment, lexicon

It is known that bilingual children have a smaller vocabulary in each of their two languages than monolingual children and also take a little longer to reach the same levels as monolinguals on various grammatical tasks. The authors of the...