Morphological Complexity of Children Narratives in Eight Languages
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Morphological Complexity of Children Narratives in Eight Languages
Original language description
The aim of this study was to compare the morphological complexity in a corpus representing the language production of younger and older children across different languages. The language samples were taken from the Frog Story subcorpus of the CHILDES corpora, which comprises oral narratives collected by various researchers between 1990 and 2005. We extracted narratives by typically developing, monolingual, middle-class children. Additionally, samples of Lithuanian language, collected according to the same principles, were added. The corpus comprises 249 narratives evenly distributed across eight languages: Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian and Spanish. Two subcorpora were formed for each language: a younger children corpus and an older children corpus. Four measures of morphological complexity were calculated for each subcorpus: Bane, Kolmogorov, Word entropy and Relative entropy of word structure. The results showed that younger children corpora had lower morphological complexity than older children corpora for all four measures for Spanish and Russian. Reversed results were obtained for English and French, and the results for the remaining four languages showed variation. Relative entropy of word structure proved to be indicative of age differences. Word entropy and relative entropy of word structure show potential to demonstrate typological differences.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC 2022
ISBN
9791095546726
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
4729-4738
Publisher name
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Place of publication
Paris, France
Event location
Marseille, France
Event date
Jun 20, 2022
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000889371704092