Journal Articles
Accepted
Brookes, H., Southwood, F., Makaure, P., White, M. J., Mössmer, M., Defty, C., Yalala, S. L., Brink, N., Kruger, H., Matfunjwa, M., Ndhambi, M., Ndlangamandla, S., Bhuda, M. T., Buthelezi, N., Jiyana, W., Khumalo, P., Miriri, L., Skosana, N., & The South African CDI Team. A crosslinguistic study of gesture and lexical development in South African infants. (accepted). First Language.
Advance publication
Brookes, H., Southwood, F., Mössmer, M., Makaure, P., White, M. J., Coetsee, C., Yalala, S. L., Kruger, H., Ndhambi, M., Ndlangamandla, S., Bhuda, M. T., Brink, N., Buthelezi, N., Jiyana, W., Khumalo, P., Ludidi, B., Miriri, L., Matfunjwa, M., Skosana, N., & The South African CDI Team. (2025). Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and socio-culturally diverse settings. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001935
Published
Brookes, H., Makaure, P., Yalala, S., Danvers, H., Mössmer, M., Little, F., Ndhambi, M., Southwood, F., Ludidi, B., & The South African CDI Team. (2025). Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages. Journal of Child Language, 52(2), 244–269. https://doi.org/mpq3
Southwood, F., White, M., Brookes, H., Pascoe, M., Ndhambi, M., Yalala, S., Mahura, O., Mössmer, M., Oosthuizen, H., Brink, N., & Alcock, K. (2021). Sociocultural factors affecting vocabulary development in young South African children. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 642315. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642315
Mössmer, M. (2019). The rise and fall of Xri: The history of a completed language shift in the Northern Cape, South Africa. Anthropological Linguistics, 60(4), 44–74. https://doi.org/10.1353/anl.2019.0009