Czech 23-month-olds use gender agreement to anticipate upcoming nouns

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.10.004" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.10.004</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.10.004" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jecp.2018.10.004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech 23-month-olds use gender agreement to anticipate upcoming nouns

Original language description

Children acquiring Dutch, French, and Spanish can use gender of articles to facilitate the processing of upcoming nouns. The current study examined whether a similar effect can be found for bound gender-marking agreement morphemes in Czech, a language without obligatory articles. The experiment was designed so that the anticipatory effects of gender-marking morphemes before the head noun onset could be observed. In a preferential looking experiment, 33 children (aged 21–24 months) were shown picture pairs that could be labeled with masculine and feminine nouns. They heard a phrase comprising a demonstrative, an adjective, and a noun, where the first two elements were inflected for gender. The inflections were either correct (matching the noun gender) or incorrect (mismatched). Children were also given offline receptive grammar and vocabulary tasks. The group of children as a whole did not show significant differences in looking behavior between the experimental conditions. When split by the grammar task, the high-scoring children showed significant differences between looks toward the target noun in the matched and mismatched conditions even before the onset of the target noun. No significant difference was observed in the low-scoring group and in the groups split by vocabulary. Results suggest that knowledge of the gender system is just emerging before the second birthday and that more advanced children can use gender information encoded in bound morphemes to actively anticipate the upcoming nouns.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-15123S" target="_blank" >GA16-15123S: On-line processing of grammar and semantics in Czech children</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

ISSN

0022-0965

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

178

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

251-265

UT code for WoS article

000458347300016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85056208340