Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
To appear
Southwood, F., & White, M.J. Language acquisition in Afrikaans, in W.A.M. Carstens, N. Bosman & T. Biberauer (eds.), Contemporary Afrikaans Linguistics.
Mahura, O., Pascoe, M., Brookes, H. Setswana speech development. In McLeod, S. (ed). The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World. Oxford University Press.
2023
Nel, J., Southwood, F., & White, M.J. 2023. The comprehension and production of passive constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa first language Grade 1 children, Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2022.2159828
Brink, N. 2023. Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers. Language and Cognition, 15(1):86–105. DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.26
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. New York: Routledge. pp. 11-30. DOI: 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]. Pretoria: Van Schaik.
White, M.J., Southwood, F., & Huddlestone, K. 2022. Children’s acquisition of negation in L1 Afrikaans.,First Language. DOI: 10.1177/01427237221112064
2021
Frenette Southwood, Michelle J. White, Heather Brookes, Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi, Sefela Yalala, Olebeng Mahura, Martin Mössmer, Helena Oosthuizen, Nina Brink, and Katie Alcock. 2021. Sociocultural factors affecting vocabulary development in young South African children, Frontiers in Psychology, 12:642315. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642315
2020
Frenette Southwood, Helena Oosthuizen, and the Southern African CDI team. 2020. Afrikaanse taalvariasie: Uitdagings vir regverdige meting van jong kinders se taal, SPiL PLUS, 59: 81–104. DOI: 10.5842/59-0-829
Brink, N. 2020. A usage-based investigation of Afrikaans-speaking children’s holophrases and communicative intentions, SPiL PLUS, 59:21–44. DOI: 10.5842/59-0-860
2018
Tessa Dowling and Emma Whitelaw. 2018. Working towards culturally and linguistically diverse speech assessments for South African children: A Xhosa case study, Language Matters, 49:2, 39-61, DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2018.1467479
2017
Brink, N. & Breed, A. 2017. Hoe jong Afrikaanssprekende kinders betekenis aan hul vroeë taalgebruik verbind. [The way in which young Afrikaans children connect meaning to their early vocabulary]. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 57(4):1012-1036. DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2017/v57n4a10
Conference Presentations
Accepted
Michelle White & Frenette Southwood. Which factors affect bilingual vocabulary size in toddlers acquiring Afrikaans and South African English?. Paper to be presented at the 14th meeting of the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26-30 June 2023.
2022
Michelle White, Frenette Southwood, Nina Gram Garmann, Ewa Haman, Pernille Hansen, Grzegorz Krajewski, Karolina Mieszkowska, Dorota Orzeszek. A North-South perspective on bilingualism and socioeconomic status. Paper presented at the 2022 International Research in Early Childhood Education Conference, Tromsø, Norway, 21-22 November 2022.
Sefela Yalala and Heather Brookes. Early production of actions and gestures in six South African languages. Paper presented International Society for Gesture Studies 9th conference,13–15 July, Chicago, USA
Child Language Development: Taking stock and looking to the future. Workshop at the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society conference 2022, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 27–30 June 2022.
Marguerite De Jongh. Collaboration between Teachers and Speech Language therapists: Supporting multilingual learners with speech, language and communication needs.
Carol Bloch. State of Early Childhood Development in South Africa.
Amina Abubakar. Measuring early language development in the health sector on the African context: Experiences from Kenya.
Virginia Marchman. Measuring early language development in US and Senegal – past and latest developments (what can be done).
Ngazibini Booi. Experiences of speech and language therapists in South Africa.
Nomfundo Buthelezi, Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi. Needs of Speech and Language Therapy in South Africa.
Anne Baker. The social and economic costs of underdeveloped language capacity locally and globally.
Sefela Yalala and Heather Brookes. Early production of actions and gestures in six South African languages. Paper presented at the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society conference 2022, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 27–30 June 2022.
Mikateko Ndhambi, Babalwa Ludidi, Sefela Yalala, Patricia Makaure and Heather Brookes. Length of utterance – morpheme or words? A study of early language development. Paper presented at the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society conference 2022, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 27–30 June 2022.
Nina Brink, Helena Oosthuizen, Frenette Southwood and Michelle White. Afrikaans- and South African English-speaking infants who say 10 words or less: Variability in their expressive vocabulary. Paper presented at the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society conference 2022, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 27–30 June 2022.
Michelle J. White & Frenette Southwood. Does geographical location influence toddlers’ lexical knowledge? Findings from South Africa. Paper presented at the Eight European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories – EUNM-CDI 2022, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 15–17 May 2022.
2021
Frenette Southwood, Helena Oosthuizen, Michelle White, Heather Brookes, Tessa Dowling, Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi, and Katie Alcock. 2021. Equivalent child language assessment instruments across languages: Southern Africa CDI. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism 13, Warsaw University, Poland, 14 July 2021.
2019
Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi, Olebeng Mahura, Sefela Yalala, Heather Brookes, Helena Oosthuizen, and Frenette Southwood. Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities. Invited seminar presentation at Linköping University, Sweden, November 2019.
Katie Alcock, Tessa Dowling, Michelle Pascoe, Olebeng Mahura, Heather Brookes, Mikateko Ndhambi, Frenette Southwood, and Helena Oosthuizen. Multilingual construction of Communicative Development Inventories in Southern Africa. Poster presentation at the Child Language Symposium, University of Sheffield, England, July 2019.
2018
Michelle Pascoe, Olebeng Mahura, Heather Brookes, Tessa Dowling, Helena Oosthuizen, Frenette Southwood, Naledi Kgolo, Rose Letsholo, and Katie Alcock. Towards Communicative Development Inventories for Southern African children. Poster presentation at the Workshop on Current Issues in Child Bilingual Development, Sydney, Australia, 26-27 July 2018.
2017
Frenette Southwood, Heather Brookes, Tessa Dowling, Helena Oosthuizen, Michelle Pascoe, and the Southern African CDI team. Addressing the Challenges that language variation poses for fair child assessment. Presentation at the workshop Language variation, contact, and change: South African perspectives, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, September 2017.
South African Communicative Development Inventories 