Word order and information structure in Czech 3-and 4-year-olds' comprehension.

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723715596098" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723715596098</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723715596098" target="_blank" >10.1177/0142723715596098</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Word order and information structure in Czech 3-and 4-year-olds' comprehension.

Original language description

This article reports on an experiment that examined the comprehension of transitive sentences in Czech children and its relationship to case marking, word order and information structure. A total of 107 Czech children aged 2;9?4;5 were tested for comprehension of noun-verb-noun sentences in which word order and given-new status of individual nouns were manipulated. The results confirmed that noncanonical, object-initial sentences are generally more difficult to comprehend than sentences with the standard word order, but that many children can interpret noncanonical sentences before 4 years of age. Information structure did not have any clear effect on sentence comprehension. Overall, the results indicate that children have some abstract knowledge of word order and case marking when they first show evidence of transitive sentence comprehension, but initially they cannot use this knowledge when word order and case marking signal conflicting interpretations. Information structure is not a

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-26779S" target="_blank" >GA13-26779S: The acquisition of Czech grammar: rules, context, and the theory of mind</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

First Language

ISSN

0142-7237

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

237-253

UT code for WoS article

000359262500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84938771123