Abstract
Language Complexity, Narratives and Theory of Mind of Romani Speaking Children
Highlights
IntroductionTriple Jeopardy The Roma children in Europe all too often grow up in poverty, marginalization and stigma
Consider first the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on language in the US and in West Europe, SES is blamed for the word gap (Hart & Risley 1995), in research that has demonstrated that lower class children are exposed to 30 million fewer words spoken to them than are spoken to middle class children between 2 and 5 years
Our goals have been to explain the difficulties that Roma children have in gaining access to a good early education, given the fact that they are often from lower SES backgrounds, often multilingual, and their native language is not the State language, but is even regarded as defective
Summary
Triple Jeopardy The Roma children in Europe all too often grow up in poverty, marginalization and stigma. From the point of view of the language they speak – Romani – they grow up in a kind of triple jeopardy compared to other children in the world: Language CoEmasptleExuirtoy,pNeaanrrJaotiuvrensaAl ondf PTshyecohroylOinfgMuisintidcsO. In the US this lack of exposure has been linked to poorer performance in the early grades of schooling, and a large gap in achievement in education. Many psychologists and linguists are not convinced that the count of words is the best index of rich language exposure, it is merely a proxy for conversational attention. More recent research findings show that it is not the count of words that matter, but conversational turns, and rich conversations that acknowledge the child as a participant (Hirsh-Pasek et al, 2015)
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