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White, M., Southwood, F., & Brookes, H. (Nov 2025). Early Bilingual Advantage: Comparing Afrikaans – South African English Bilingual Toddlers and Monolingual Peers in Early Vocabulary and Word Combining. International Journal of Bilingualism.
2026
Brookes, H. (2026). Linguistic practices of youth in bi-/multilingual contexts. In C. A. Chapelle & D. Gabryś-Barker (Eds.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (World Englishes) (pp. 1-6). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0103.pub2
Brookes, H., Southwood, F., Makaure, P., White, M. J., Mössmer, M., Defty, C., Yalala, S. L., Brink, N., Kruger, H., Matfunjwa, M., Ndhambi, M., Ndlangamandla, S., Bhuda, T. M., Bronn, C., Buthelezi, N., Jiyana, W., Khumalo, F. P., Miriri, L., & Skosana, N. (2026). A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants. First Language, 46(4), 721-749.
Brookes, H., Southwood, F., Mössmer, M., Makaure, P., White, M. J., Coetsee, C., Yalala, S. L., Kruger, H., Ndhambi, M., Ndlangamandla, S., Bhuda, M. T., Brink, N., Buthelezi, N., Jiyana, W., Khumalo, F. P., Ludidi, B., Matfunjwa, M., Miriri, L., & Skosana, N. (2026). Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings. Developmental Psychology, 62(1), 288–302. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001935
Defty, C. & Southwood, F. (2026). Child-directed Speech in a low-SES Afrikaans-speaking community in South Africa: Differences between rural and urban-situated households. Infancy, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70079
Mahura, O., Pascoe, M., & Brookes, H. J. (2026). Setswana speech development. In S. McLeod (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of speech development in languages of the world (pp. 1073–1086). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191964909.003.0063
Makaure, P., & Wilsenach, C. (2026). A Linguistic Analysis of Spelling Errors in Northern Sotho-Speaking Grade 3 Learners. Perspectives in Education, 44(2), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v44i2.9151
Ndhambi, M., Brookes, H., Pascoe, M., & Makaure, P. (2026). Examining Noun Bias in the Vocabulary Development of Xitsonga-Speaking Children Aged 16 to 32 Months. First Language, 46(4), 701-720. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251406743
White, M.J., Kruger, H., Brink, N., & Southwood, F. (2026). Vocabulary size of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers: Influence of health-related and household-related risk factors across SES group. In: B. Gerber, M. Burger, S. Swartz-Filies, & E. van Niekerk (Eds.), Early Childhood Development and Intervention in a Majority World Context: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective (pp. 167-184). AOSIS Scholarly Books. https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2026.BK507.10
2025
Brookes, H., Makaure, Z., Yalala, S., Danvers, H., Mössmer, M., Little, F., Ludidi, B., Ndhambi, M., Southwood, F., & the South African CDI Team. (2025). Mean length of utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages. Journal of Child Language, 52(2), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000685
Southwood, F., Brönn, C., Brookes, H., Defty, C., & Kruger, H. (2025). The psychometric status of child language assessment tools in South Africa’s official languages. South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 72(1). https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v72i1.1132
Southwood, F. & Nel, J. (2025). Is daar ʼn verband tussen die begrip en stel van w-vrae en die sosioëkonomiese status van Afrikaanssprekende Grondslagfase-leerders? LitNet: Geesteswetenskappe 22(3). https://doi.org/10.56273/1995-5928/2025/j22n3b7
2024
Brookes, H., Agyepong, D., White, M., & Yalala, S. (2024). The development of speech and gesture in Sesotho narratives. Gesture, 22(3). https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.21006.bro
Makaure, P., & Wilsenach, C. (2024). Explaining variation in reading comprehension in Northern Sotho–English bilingual children: A simple view of reading perspective on longitudinal data. Reading Psychology, 45(2), 143–177. https://doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2023.2276444
Makaure, P., Wilsenach, P., & Schaefer, M. (2024). Longitudinal predictors of single-word spelling in Northern Sotho–English bilingual children: A cross-linguistic study. Reading and Writing, 38, 2385-2413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10601-z
Malan, T., Tucker, W. D., Yalala, S. L., & the South African CDI Team. (2024). A pilot mobile app to collect South African child language data. In W. Chigona, S. Kabanda, & L. F. Seymour (Eds.), Implications of information and digital technologies for development: ICT4D 2024 (Vol. 708, pp. 313–327). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66982-8_22
Pascoe, M., Ndhambi, M., Mahura, O., Buthelezi, N. P., Husselmann, N., & Ludidi, B. (2024). Many voices, many languages: Listening and learning from South African children. In L. Mahony, S. McLeod, A. Salamon, & J. Dwyer (Eds.), Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development) (1st ed., Vol. 42, pp. 151-163). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56484-0_11
Southwood, F., & White, M. J. (2024). Language acquisition in Afrikaans. In W. A. M. Carstens & N. Bosman (Eds.), Afrikaans linguistics: Contemporary perspectives (pp. 611–638). SUN PReSS.
Stam, G., Brookes, H., & Ngumbela, U. (2024). What speech and gesture illustrate about the thinking-for-speaking patterns of child isiXhosa speakers learning English. In A. Brown & S. W. Eskildsen (Eds.), Multimodality and multilingual interaction across epistemologies (pp. 234–239). Routledge.
White, M., Southwood, F., Yalala, S. L., & the South African CDI Team. (2024). Early child language resources and corpora developed in nine African languages by the SADiLaR Child Language Development Node. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 86–93). ELRA and ICCL.
2023
Brink, N. (2023). Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers. Language and Cognition, 15(1), 86–105. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2022.26
Nel, J. H., Southwood, F., & White, M. J. (2024). The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children. Language Acquisition, 31(1), 1–21. https://doi-org.ez.sun.ac.za/10.1080/10489223.2022.2159828
2022
Simonsen, H. D. G., & Southwood, F. (2022). Child language assessment across different multilingual contexts: Insights and challenges from South and North. In U. Røyneland & R. Blackwood (Eds.), Multilingualism across the lifespan (1st ed., pp. 11–30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125815
Southwood, F., Brink, N., & Oosthuizen, H. (2022). Kindertaal [Child language]. In W. A. M. Carstens & T. Van Dyk (Eds.), Toegepaste taalkunde in Afrikaans [Applied linguistics in Afrikaans] (pp. 723-741). Van Schaik.
White, M. J., Southwood, F., & Huddlestone, K. (2022). Children’s acquisition of negation in L1 Afrikaans. First Language, 43(1), 22–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221112064
2021
Southwood, F., White, M. J., Brookes, H., Pascoe, M., Ndhambi, M., Yalala, S., Mahura, O., Mössmer, M., Oosthuizen, H., Brink, N., & Alcock, K. (2021). Sociocultural factors affecting vocabulary development in young South African children. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1645. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642315
2020
Brink, N. (2020). A usage-based investigation of Afrikaans-speaking children’s holophrases and communicative intentions. SPiL PLUS, 59, 21–44. https://doi.org/10.5842/59-0-860
Southwood, F., & Oosthuizen, H., & the South African CDI Team. (2020). Afrikaanse taalvariasie: Uitdagings vir regverdige meting van jong kinders se taal. SPiL PLUS, 59, 81–104. https://doi.org/10.5842/59-0-829
2019
Dowling, T., & Whitelaw, E. (2018). Working towards culturally and linguistically diverse speech assessments for South African children: A Xhosa case study. Language Matters, 49(2), 39–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2018.1467479
2017
Brink, N., & Breed, A. (2017). Hoe jong Afrikaanssprekende kinders betekenis aan hul vroeë taalgebruik verbind [How young Afrikaans children connect meaning to their early vocabulary]. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 57(4), 1012–1036. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-c3dbe1caf
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