Factors of the sentence comprehension in serbo-croatian
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https://doi.org/10.15291/radovifpsp.2439Abstract
The article investigates the influence of the factors: Animacy, Case inflection, and Noun-verb agreement on sentence comprehension 54 simple transitive sentences were presented to the each subject and their task was to pick out the actor in the sentence. Six psychology students participated in the experiment. The results indicate that the strategy of decodeing case inflectional information is used more often than the strategy of decodeing agreement or animacy information. In the situation where the inflectional information is not present or is ambiguous, then the strategies of decodeing the other kind of information are dominant.References
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Pinker, S. (1981): A theory of the acquisition of lexical interpretative grammars. In J. Bresnan (Ed.), The mental representation of grammatical relations. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
Sinclair, H., Broncart, J. (1972): SVO-a linguistic universal? A study in developmental psycholinguistic. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 14, 329—348.
Slobin, D., Bever, T. (1982): A cross-linguistic study of sentence comprehension. Cognition, 12, 229—265.
Strohner, H., Nelson, K. E. (1974): The young child’s development of sentence comprehension: Influence of event probability, nonverbal context, syntactic form, and their strategies. Child Development, 45, 567— —576.
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Weist, R., Konieczna E. (1985): Affix processing strategies and linguistic systems. Journal of Child Language, 12, 27—35.
