20.500.12556/RUL-181919 Children’s language status, not language, predicts vocabulary size a cross-linguistic study of Croatian and Slovenian children using the CDI-III One of the most prominent characteristics of developmental language disorder (DLD) is limited vocabulary sizeand poor vocabulary composition. Through a cross-linguistic comparison of vocabulary breadth based on the CDI-III, we aimed to determine whether language and children’s language status can affect the vocabulary of 41- to 48-month old children with typical language development (TLD) and those with DLD. Children with DLD were observed to have a smaller vocabulary than children with TLD, even in semantic categories containing words typically acquired at earlier stages of language development.Therefore, it is not language itself that contributes to differences between groups, but rather the children’s language status, i.e., the presence of a language disorder (TLD vs DLD). vocabulary development developmental language disorder Communicative Development Inventory – III Croatian Slovenian razvoj besednega zaklada jezikovne motnje slovenščina hrvaščina jezik (jezikoslovje) vzgoja in izobraževanje oseb s posebnimi potrebami true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Licenca CC BY-NC 4.0 je navedena na pristajalni strani članka (https://hrcak.srce.hr/346301) in na spletni strani s podatki o reviji (https://hrcak.srce.hr/hrzri). (Datum opombe: 20. 4. 2026) Članek v reviji 2026-04-20 09:04:00 2026-04-20 09:04:01 2026-04-21 04:42:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 58-64 Special iss. Vol. 62 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 376.1-056.34 1848-7734 10.31299/hrri.62.si.9 275724803 RAZ_Kuvac_Kraljevic_Jelena_2026.pdf RAZ_Kuvac_Kraljevic_Jelena_2026.pdf 1 421C99999E48CA237DD84B7E91672CA3 a16f93dd86c7dbde063efdb7eb914708b854951e1f8fbb3c67aec70f8528ce8d d18afe81-3c87-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232707 https://hrcak.srce.hr/346301 1 df530305-3c86-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232706 https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/499871 0 315223dd-3c88-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232708 https://hrcak.srce.hr/hrzri 0 579d5ff9-3c8b-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232711 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0