Carmen Coetsee

Biographic Data

ID5759486
NAMECarmen Coetsee
GIVEN NAMESCarmen
FAMILY NAMECoetsee
SIGNATURECOETSEE C
AFFILIATIONSStellenbosch University
ORCID0009-0009-7799-6276
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings

    Heather Brookes, Frenette Southwood et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2026

    This article describes the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for South Africa's 11 official spoken languages. The CDI is a parent-report tool that measures early language development from 8 to 30 months. We developed cross-linguistically comparable CDIs, representing two distinct language families, West Germanic and southern Bantu, using a common protocol. We describe our approach to item construction and…

  • A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants

    Open AccessHeather Brookes, Frenette Southwood et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2025

    This study compares early gesture and lexical development in 1,199 infants (0;8–1;6) across South Africa’s 11 official spoken languages using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Gestures. We examined the effect of age, sex, ecological (urban-rural) setting, and maternal level of education (MLE) on early language development. Age was a significant predictor of gesture, comprehension, and production. There was no evid…