Doctoral
2025
Chelsea Bronn: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University (in progress)
Gender differences in early child language acquisition
Helena Kruger: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University (in progress)
Exploring patterns of language interaction between caregivers and 15-month-old infants in an Afrikaans-speaking community in the Western Cape: A mixed-methods study
Nomfundo Buthelezi: Speech Language Pathology Contact, University of Cape Town (in progress)
Early lexical and grammatical development of children aged 8 to 32 months acquiring isiZulu
Portia Khumalo: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University (in progress)
The impact of socioecological factors on the language development of toddlers speaking Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Nina Brink: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University (in progress)
The vocabulary profiles of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers
2024
Mikateko Ndhambi: Speech Language Pathology Contact, University of Cape Town
Early lexical and grammatical development in Xitsonga-speaking children
Olebeng Mahura: Speech-Language Pathology, University of Cape Town
The Acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
Masters
2025
Tristan du Plessis: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
Onakho Dada: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University The nature of speech and gesture in interactions between isiXhosa speaking 15-month-old infants and adults
Atshilaho Viola Nethathe: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University Early acquisition of Noun Classes in Tshivenda: A Study of Toddlers Aged 2.4 years to 2.6 years
Patience Bopape: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University (in progress)
Child language development and maintenance in Sesotho sa Leboa: A case study in a rural Limpopo family
2024
Carmen Coetsee: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
Child-directed speech in low SES communities: The case of Afrikaans rural and urban-situated babies
Sefela Yalala: Linguistics, University of Cape Town
Language development in Setswana-speaking infants aged 8 to 18 months
Nicole Husselmann: Speech Language Pathology Contact, University of Cape Town
Towards validation of South African Communicative Development Inventories: An object naming/identification task for South African English and Afrikaans
Jess van der Merwe: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
The acquisition of ellipsis in children with ASD and DLD
Mariette Nortje: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University The nature and composition of the expressive vocabularies of monolingual South African and Afrikaans speaking toddlers.
2023
J.A. Rousseau: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University How does form-meaning mapping develop over a period of 8 months in the three languages of an Afrikaans – German – South African English trilingual toddler?
2018
Emma Whitelaw: University of Cape Town Towards the development of an isiXhosa adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for toddlers
Honours and 4th-year
2025
Emma Thom: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University (in progress) Methodology matters: Coding strategy can affect evidence for a noun bias
2024
Onakho Dada: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University The nature of speech and gesture input to 5-month-old infants in isiXhosa speaking mother/family-infant interactions
Thandisa Qhekoane: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University Development of clause complexity in Sesotho narratives from 5 to 10 year in comparison to adults
Anisha van Staden: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University The impact of age, amount, and length of exposure on bilingual vocabulary size: Assessing bilingual toddlers in the South African context
Catherine Donnell: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University Comprehension and production of Wh-questions in Afrikaans- and South African English-speaking children: A DELV study
2022
Tessa Malan: Computer Science, Stellenbosch University
BT8: Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) data collection in all South African languages
2021
Hannah Danvers: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
A comparison of mean sentence length measured in words and morphemes for four Bantu languages: The impact of orthography
Thembelihle Makananda, Ndamulelo Makahane, Bulelani Malashe, Owen Mathye, and Mihle Nzima: Speech Language Pathology Contact, University of Cape Town
Children’s first fifty words: Phonological and lexical characteristics of isiXhosa, South African English and Afrikaans
Mabutšana Ramokoatsi: General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
The preliminary Mac-Arthur-Bates CDI Sesotho version: Correlation between grammar scores and age
The Child Language Development Node 