The Acquisition of Tense in 17 Languages (CROSBI ID 584860)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Arosio, F. ; Hollebrandse, B. ; Dressler, W. ; Argus, R. ; Grohmann, K. ; Theodorou, E. ; Iluz-Cohen, P. ; Armon-Lotem, S. ; Hržica, Gordana ; Kovačević, Melita ; Kuvač Kraljević Jelena ; Palmović, Marijan ; Fürst, B. ; Bittner, D. ; Gagarina, N. ; Abrosova, K. ; Asbjørnsen, A. ; Von Koss Torkildsen, J. ; Garcia del Réal, I. ; Rodriguez, Y. ; Andjelcović, D ; Savić, M. ; van Maastricht, L. ; van Koert, M. ; van Hout, A. ; Laloi, A. ; Tuller, L. ; Montalto, R. ; Avram, L. ; Dumitrache, I. ; Konstantzou, K. ; Kyuchukov, H. ; Jensen-Lopez, K. ; Knüppel, A.
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The Acquisition of Tense in 17 Languages
Different temporal forms can be used to describe one temporal relation (IT: camminava vs. camminò, walk-past- imperfective vs. walk-past-perfective) ; one form can be used to describe different temporal relations (D: life, walk-past- imperfective vs. walk-past-perfective) ; these relations concern objects not directly perceivable. This can make their acquisition a complicated task. We tested 355 children, 5 years-old, on tense comprehension in 17 languages. Participants watched movies where a protagonist walks along a road performing the same action at different locations (Wagner 2001). The test-questions were of the form: Where V-past? ; Where V-present? ; Where V-future? We found differences across languages (χ2(16)=100.14, p<.0001) and tenses (χ2(16)=100.14, p<.0001) and an interaction between the two (χ2(21)=103.31, p=.0203). These differences concerned past (χ2(5)=53.08, p<.0001) and future (χ2(5)= 57.78, p<.0001) tenses. We argued that children acquire tense earlier in languages where we find small domains of synonymy and ambiguity in conveying temporal meanings than in languages with larger domains.
tense; language acquisition; crosslinguistic research
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2011.
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Podaci o skupu
36th Annual Boston University Conference
predavanje
04.11.2011-06.11.2011
Boston (MA), Sjedinjene Američke Države