Re:Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary devel...
by mcfrank on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:30PM
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Hi, original researcher here - these forms have different words and different numbers of items, so it's complicated to compare absolute proportions across languages. I wouldn't infer that there are differences between populations from differences in the norms.
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=vocab_norms
Seems like data sample is too small to infer anything useful for Swedish.. but comparing Danish and English is interesting. Seems like Danes outperform or English kids underperform. Would be interesting to understand what the major driver is for the effect.