Influence of Spanish dialect on the picture and object naming of pre-schoolers.

摘要

The purpose of this project was to examine the impact of dialect on the confrontation naming of Chilean and Mexican-American pre-schoolers. Experiment 1examined responses of Chilean dialect speakers to stimuli from the Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Bilingual Edition (EOWPVT-BE) and the Assessment of Phonological Patterns Spanish 2nd Edition (APPS-2). Experiment 2 examined responses of Mexican-American dialect speakers to stimuli from the EOWPVT-BE. Both groups demonstrated an increase in raw and standard scores when dialectally appropriate responses were counted as correct. Mean increase in raw score was 8.2% for the Chilean participants. Mean increase in the standard score was 5.6% for the Mexican-American participants. The difference in scores, for some participants, was sufficient to alter the interpretation of test results. Tests which do not recognize a dialect in the standardization sample may overestimate impairment and/or underestimate ability.