Nomsa Skosana
Biographic Data
| ID | 5759498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nomsa Skosana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nomsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Skosana |
| SIGNATURE | SKOSANA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2833-5895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings
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
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…
The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary
The lack of terminology and language resources for the under-resourced South African languages poses a serious problem for effective communication in specialised fields such as law, education, health, agriculture, science, and technology. The ability to use all South African languages in all contemporary fields requires the existence of relevant terminology and resources. The article aims to semi-automatically identify and extract terminology for…
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The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary
The lack of terminology and language resources for the under-resourced South African languages poses a serious problem for effective communication in specialised fields such as law, education, health, agriculture, science, and technology. The ability to use all South African languages in all contemporary fields requires the existence of relevant terminology and resources. The article aims to semi-automatically identify and extract terminology for…
A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants
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
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…
Child development (2 works) · Language acquisition (2 works) · Language development (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work)