Prince or forester? An interpretation of subject anaphors in Dutch as a second language

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2018.59" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2018.59</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2018.59" target="_blank" >10.14712/24646830.2018.59</a>

Result language

nizozemština

Original language name

PRINS OF BOSWACHTER? INTERPRETATIE VAN SUBJECTANAFOREN IN HET NEDERLANDS ALS TWEEDE TAAL

Original language description

is study aims to investigate o ine processing of subject anaphora in Dutch. An important parameter in this study is the di erence between pro drop and non-pro drop languages. An experiment has been run to investigate whether 27 Czechs that speak Dutch as a second language are able to interpret the referent belonging to a subject anaphora as well as 27 native Dutch speakers. ese anaphors occurred in short Dutch sto- ries with or without a topic shi , a cognitively demanding process where anaphors point to di erent referents in the story. One can expect this to lead to misinterpretation, especially in the case of groups of language users, whose cognitive capacities are already somehow compromised, such as the elderly or non-native speakers of a language. For the purposes of hierarchisation of subject anaphors, the Givenness Hierarchy has been used. To be able to determine the type of anaphora, the algorithm derived from the Centering eory has been used. e study shows that Czechs fail to interpret the right referent of subject anaphora in the stories with- out the topic shi signi cantly more than the native Dutch control group. is can be explained by the interference between pro drop and non-pro drop languages. A pronoun signals a topic shi in Czech, while in Dutch, pronouns express topic continuity. Czechs o en also incorrectly interpret the anaphora in the stories with a topic shi , although here the di erence with the control group was not signi cant. is could be explained by the low number of parameters which have been considered during the experimental design.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

ISSN

0567-8269

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

113-130

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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