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. 2024 Nov 27;18:1456054. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1456054

Table 1.

Assessments used in enriched case study.

Category Type Description
Parent/teacher reports Multilingualism Questionnaire (MQ) (https://testvcla.cac.cornell.edu/the-vll/the-multilingualism-questionnaire/) Parent/caretaker survey to gather metadata of child’s language background including selected socio-demographics
Pragmatics [Pragmatic Profile (PP)] (Dewart and Summers, 1988) Parent and /or teacher observations, designed to assess child’s pragmatic development
Child assessments Naturalistic General Observation (GO) Naturalistic observations of child’s pragmatic and grammatical development
Natural Speech (NS) (Blume and Lust, 2017) From child’s natural speech, we focused on measuring mean length of utterance (MLU) and percentage of well-formed grammatical sentences
Standardized Lexico-Semantics [Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)] (Dunn and Dunn, 1997) Standardized assessment of vocabulary
Experimental Syntax [Elicited Imitation (EI)] (Dye and Foley, 2020) Experimental tests of grammar/syntax with a focus on complex sentence formation (coordination, relativization and adverbial subordinate clause formation)