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Word Order and Case Inflection in Czech: On-line Sentence Comprehension in Children and Adults

SYSNO ASEP	0333307
Document Type	C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.)
R&D Document Type	Conference Paper
Title	Word Order and Case Inflection in Czech: On-line Sentence Comprehension in Children and Adults
Title	Slovosled a pádové koncovky v češtině: porozumění větám v reálném času u dětí a dospělých
Author(s)	Lukavský, Jiří (PSU-E)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Smolík, Filip (PSU-E)_{RID, ORCID, SAI}
Number of authors	2
Source Title	Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. - Austin, Texas : Cognitive Science Society, 2009 - ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Pages	s. 1358-1363
Number of pages	6 s.
Action	Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society /31./
Event date	29.07.2009-01.08.2009
VEvent location	Amsterodam
Country	NL - Netherlands
Event type	WRD
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	language acquisition ; case ; word order
Subject RIV	AN - Psychology
R&D Projects	KJB700250801 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR)
CEZ	AV0Z70250504 - PSU-E (2005-2011)
Annotation	An experiment examined the role of word order and case inflection in the interpretation of Czech transitive sentences by children and adults. Participants listened to simple transitive sentences while watching picture pairs with the same characters performing the same action, but with the opposite assignment of the subject and object roles. Sentences varied in word order (SVO, OVS), and in whether the initial noun was case-ambiguous or not. Word order and case inflection appear to have only weak, if any, immediate influence on 3-year-olds sentence interpretation. The performance in 5-year-olds revealed sensitivity to both word order and inflection, similar to the performance of adults. However, 5-year-olds appear to be driven by word order more than adults. Surprisingly, processing of OVS sentences in adults was not different from SVO sentences as long as the initial noun was unambiguously inflected for case.
Workplace	Institute of Psychology
Contact	Štěpánka Halamová, Halamova@praha.psu.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 222 096
Year of Publishing	2010

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