Lexical availability in six-year-old children of Gran Canaria. Comparison with México and Costa Rica
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https://doi.org/10.24197/ogigia.25.2019.139-163Keywords:
Lexical availability, Spanish of the Canary Islands, dialectal comparison, children’s lexiconAbstract
Our purpose in this article is to provide the data resulting from surveys carried out among six-year-old children (first year of primary education) in several schools of Gran Canaria in order to find out what vocabulary is available to children at such an early age. This type of work provides a rigorous basis for programming the lexicon to be learned by schoolchildren in the first years of primary school. In the second part of the article we compare the results obtained in Gran Canaria in three lexical fields with those provided by similar research in Costa Rica and Mexico City with children of the same age. From this comparison we conclude that common words predominate in the most available lexicon.
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