Psychology of Language and Communication
Children's Language and Communicative Knowledge, Part Two. In childhood and beyond, Issue Editor: Barbara Bokus
Published Online: Dec 30, 2014
Page range: 211 - 225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0015
© by Hristo Kyuchukov
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
The paper presents research findings from research on Roma children and their acquisition of different grammatical categories in the Romani language. Results from three different studies with Roma children from Bulgaria are discussed: acquisition of mental state verbs (MSV), Bates-MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) in Romani and subtests from DELV (Seymour, Roeper, & de Villiers, 2005). All the testing and research shows that Roma children follow the paths of normally developing children in their language development. Roma children are able to correctly use nouns, verbs, wh-questions and to assume different communicative roles.