Quantitative analysis of language competence vs. performance in Russian- and Lithuanian-speaking 6 year-olds

The paper deals with a comparative analysis of the Part-of-Speech Profile between different languages and discourse genres in 6-year-old typically developing Russian- vs. Lithuanian-speaking children. Results of the study inspire a discussion on a possibility to evaluate both language competence and language performance of the same subject on the basis of his/her distribution of parts of speech in the discourseLituanistikos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta