Measures of Naturalistic Language for Dialect-Speaking Children: The Case of Cypriot Greek

The aim of this study was to longitudinally examine mean length utterance in words (MLU-w) and number different (NDW) their association children speaking Cypriot Greek (CG), a dialect for which such measures language development have not been adequately investigated. Language samples from 36 typically developing monolingual CG-speaking were collected at 4-month intervals the age 3;0 until 4;0 through free-play based conversation between caregivers. A zero-order correlation analysis among MLU-w, NDW, showed strong positive correlations any two these measures. first-order controlling that MLU-w NDW independent influence age. provides valuable information on it contributes our knowledge about dialectal variety lacking standardised tests.