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F. Southwood

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h-index: 14
Works: 57
Citations: 600

Most-cited papers

Comparison of conversation, freeplay, and story generation as methods of language sample elicitation.
F. Southwood, Ann F. Russell
2004Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research130 citations
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Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?
Magdalena Łuniewska, E. Haman, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bartłomiej Etenkowski +39 more
2015Behavior Research Methods80 citations Open access
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Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)
E. Haman, Magdalena Łuniewska, Pernille Hansen, H. Simonsen +29 more
2017Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics63 citations Open access
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Child language assessment and intervention in multilingual and multicultural South Africa : findings of a national survey
O. van Dulm, F. Southwood
201429 citations Open access
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INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF SMS SPEAK ON THE WRITTEN WORK OF ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE HIGH SCHOOL LEARNERS
Kristy Winzker, F. Southwood, Kate Huddlestone
201129 citations Open access
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A comparison of proficiency levels in 4-year-old monolingual and trilingual speakers of Afrikaans, isiXhosa and South African English across SES boundaries, using LITMUS-CLT
Anneke Perold Potgieter, F. Southwood
2016Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics23 citations
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The challenge of linguistic and cultural diversity: Does length of experience affect South African speech-language therapists’ management of children with language impairment?
F. Southwood, O. van Dulm
2015South African Journal of Communication Disorders23 citations Open access
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Sociocultural Factors Affecting Vocabulary Development in Young South African Children
F. Southwood, M. White, H. Brookes, M. Pascoe +7 more
2021Frontiers in Psychology19 citations Open access
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Curriculum Expectations versus Teachers’ Opinions and Practices in Teaching English in Rural Primary Schools in Uganda
M. Ssentanda, F. Southwood, Kate Huddlestone
2019Language Matters19 citations
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Towards a dialect-neutral assessment instrument for the language skills of Afrikaans-speaking children: the role of socioeconomic status.
F. Southwood
2013Journal of Child Language17 citations
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Methodological issues in the calculation of mean length of utterance.
H. Oosthuizen, F. Southwood
2009South African Journal of Communication Disorders17 citations Open access
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Bilingualism and psychosis: a linguistic analysis of a patient with differential symptom severity across languages
F. Southwood, R. Schoeman, R. Emsley
200915 citations
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Bilingualism and psychosis: a case report.
R. Schoeman, F. Southwood, B. Chiliza, R. Emsley
2008Schizophrenia Research15 citations
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Toward a dialect-neutral Afrikaans-medium child language assessment instrument: Test item development
O. van Dulm, F. Southwood
200815 citations
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The politics of mother tongue education: The case of Uganda
M. Ssentanda, Kate Huddlestone, F. Southwood
201613 citations Open access
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Literacy development of English language learners: the outcomes of an intervention programme in grade R.
A. Olivier, C. Anthonissen, F. Southwood
2010South African Journal of Communication Disorders11 citations Open access
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Specific language impairment as a syntax-phonology (PF) interface problem: evidence from Afrikaans
N. Corver, F. Southwood, R. van Hout
20138 citations Open access
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Production of tense morphology by Afrikaans-speaking children with and without specific language impairment.
F. Southwood, R. van Hout
2010Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research8 citations
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Specific language impairment in Afrikaans. Providing a Minimalist account for problems with grammatical features and word order
F. Southwood
20078 citations
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Intercultural communicative competence is essential for students of international business - but can it be taught? The case of third-year BCom students
F. Southwood, M.-L. de la Marque Van Heukelum
2020South African Journal of Higher Education7 citations Open access
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Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings.
Heather Brookes, F. Southwood, Martin Mössmer, Patricia Makaure +15 more
2025Developmental Psychology6 citations Open access
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The psychometric status of child language assessment tools in South Africa’s official languages
F. Southwood, Chelsea Brönn, Heather Brookes, Carmen Defty +1 more
2025South African Journal of Communication Disorders6 citations Open access
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A comparison of the responses to three comprehension and three production tasks assessing the morpho-syntactic abilities of Afrikaans-speaking preschoolers
F. Southwood
20115 citations Open access
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Children’s acquisition of negation in L1 Afrikaans
M. White, F. Southwood, Kate Huddlestone
2022First language4 citations Open access
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Fast mapping of verbs in Afrikaans-speaking children from low and mid socioeconomic backgrounds and children with language impairment
F. Southwood, M. White
2020Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics4 citations
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An investigation of the morpho-syntactic abilities of Afrikaans-speaking preschoolers
F. Southwood
20064 citations
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Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages.
Heather Brookes, Patricia Makaure, Sefela L. Yalala, Hannah Danvers +5 more
2024Journal of Child Language3 citations Open access
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The use of discourse markers by Afrikaans-speaking preschoolers with and without specific language impairment *
F. Southwood, Matty Carinus, S. Engelbrecht
20113 citations Open access
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Does socioeconomic level have an effect on school-age language skills in a developed country?
O. van Dulm, F. Southwood
20162 citations Open access
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The use of digit and sentence repetition in the identification of language impairment: The case of child speakers of Afrikaans and South African English
Salomé Gagiano, F. Southwood
20152 citations Open access
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The presence of a primary male caregiver affects children's language skills
F. Southwood
20122 citations Open access
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Prioritizing infant mental health: a research-driven pathway for action
A. Lachman, Berna Gerber, M. Burger, Fiona C. Ross +9 more
2025Nature Medicine1 citations Open access
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A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants
Heather Brookes, F. Southwood, Patricia Makaure, M. White +15 more
2025First language1 citations Open access
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Is home environment predictive of early grammar development?
M. White, F. Southwood
2024Journal of Child Language1 citations Open access
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Early Child Language Resources and Corpora Developed in Nine African Languages by the SADiLaR Child Language Development Node
M. White, F. Southwood, Sefela Londiwe Yalala
2024RAIL1 citations
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The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children
J. Nel, F. Southwood, M. White
2023Language Acquisition1 citations Open access
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Child Language Assessment across Different Multilingual Contexts
H. Simonsen, F. Southwood
2021Multilingualism across the Lifespan1 citations Open access
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Elicited Production of Part/Whole and General/ Specific Articles by Four- to Nine-Year-Old Afrikaans- and South African English-Speaking Monolinguals
F. Southwood, M. White
20211 citations
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The comprehension and production of quantifiers in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
J. Nel, F. Southwood
2016South African Journal of Communication Disorders1 citations Open access
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THE TESTABILITY OF PROMINENT HYPOTHESES ON ACCESS TO UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN ADULT SLA
F. Southwood
20121 citations Open access
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Clinical implications of childhood bilingualism
F. Southwood
20121 citations Open access
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Linguistic characteristics of SLI in Afrikaans
F. Southwood, R. van Hout
20121 citations Open access
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First and second language child speakers of Afrikaans’s knowledge of figurative language
K. van der Merwe, F. Southwood
20111 citations Open access
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Motion events in Afrikaans: their expression by adult speakers and by children with and without language impairment
H. Oosthuizen, Barbara Höhle, F. Southwood
20111 citations Open access
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Child‐Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low‐SES Afrikaans‐Speaking Community in South Africa
Carmen Defty, F. Southwood
2026Infancy0 citations Open access
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Community-Based Co-Design of a Deaf Education Annotation Framework (DEAF)
Zander Vermeulen, W. Tucker, F. Southwood
20252025 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa)0 citations
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Afrikaanse taalvariasie: Uitdagings vir regverdige meting van jong kinders se taal
F. Southwood, H. Oosthuizen
20200 citations Open access
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South Africa
H. Oosthuizen, F. Southwood
2019Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorder0 citations
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Unlocking later developing language skills in older children by means of focused language stimulation
F. Southwood, O. van Dulm
20160 citations Open access
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The language scripts of pre-school children and of the language intervention volunteer : mismatched discourses?
F. Southwood, E. D'Oliveira
20160 citations Open access
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