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Nina Brink

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ID5759491
NAMENina Brink
GIVEN NAMESNina
FAMILY NAMEBrink
SIGNATUREBRINK N
AFFILIATIONSNorth-West University
ORCID0000-0001-7119-8200
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
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.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2026

    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 Access•Heather Brookes, Frenette Southwood et al.•ARTICLE•First Language•2025

    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…

  • Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers

    Open Access•Nina Brink•ARTICLE•Language and Cognition•2023

    Children’s processing and comprehension of metonymy have received little attention in the developmental literature, which has mainly focused on children’s acquisition of metaphor abilities. However, it has been found that metonymy production and comprehension precede metaphor production and comprehension (Falkum et al., 2017; Nerlich et al., 1999; Pérez-Hernández & Duvignau, 2016; Runblad & Annaz, 2010). Nerlich et al. (1999) suggest that metonym…

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  • Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers

    Open Access•Nina Brink•ARTICLE•Language and Cognition•2023

    Children’s processing and comprehension of metonymy have received little attention in the developmental literature, which has mainly focused on children’s acquisition of metaphor abilities. However, it has been found that metonymy production and comprehension precede metaphor production and comprehension (Falkum et al., 2017; Nerlich et al., 1999; Pérez-Hernández & Duvignau, 2016; Runblad & Annaz, 2010). Nerlich et al. (1999) suggest that metonym…

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

    Open Access•Heather Brookes, Frenette Southwood et al.•ARTICLE•First Language•2025

    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…

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

    Heather Brookes, Frenette Southwood et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2026

    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…

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