Babalwa Ludidi

Biographic Data

ID5759495
NAMEBabalwa Ludidi
GIVEN NAMESBabalwa
FAMILY NAMELudidi
SIGNATURELUDIDI B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Town
VERIFIEDNo
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…

  • Mean Length of Utterance

    Open AccessHeather Brookes, Patricia Makaure et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) has been widely used to measure children’s early language development in a variety of languages. This study investigates the utility of MLU to measure language development in four agglutinative and morphologically complex Southern Bantu languages. Using a variant of MLU, MLU3, based on the three longest sentences children produced, we analysed the utterances of 448 toddlers (16-32 months) collected using the MacArth…