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| Autor/inn/en | Arosio, Fabrizio; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Forgiarini, Matteo; Guasti, Maria Teresa |
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| Titel | Morphological Information and Memory Resources in Children's Processing of Relative Clauses in German |
| Quelle | In: Language Learning and Development, 8 (2012) 4, S.340-364 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1547-5441 |
| DOI | 10.1080/15475441.2011.634691 |
| Schlagwörter | Form Classes (Languages); Language Acquisition; Monolingualism; Cues; Short Term Memory; German; Morphology (Languages); Language Processing; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Correlation; Grammar; Verbs; Phrase Structure; Phonology; Scores; Ambiguity (Semantics); Measures (Individuals); Children |
| Abstract | We investigated the processing of agreement marking and case marking in the comprehension of German relative clauses in 48 seven-year-old monolingual German-speaking children in a picture selection task. We examined the relation between the effectiveness of these different morphological cues and individual memory resources as measured by a digit-span test. Relative clauses were disambiguated either by agreement marking on the embedded verb or by case marking on the embedded determiner phrase. The results show that subject-extracted relative clauses (subject RCs) are more easily comprehended than object-extracted relative clauses (object RCs) and that case disambiguation is more effective than agreement disambiguation. Moreover, we found a relation between individual phonological short-term memory and the effectiveness of the different disambiguating cues in the comprehension of object RCs but not in the comprehension of subject RCs. We found that: (i) children with a low-digit span score have difficulties in the comprehension of case and agreement disambiguated object RCs, (ii) children with a medium-digit span score have difficulties in the comprehension of agreement disambiguated object RCs but not difficulties with case disambiguated object RCs, and (iii) children with a larger digit span score have no difficulties in the comprehension of agreement and case disambiguated object RCs. We explain our results under the "Diagnosis and Repair Model" (Fodor & Inoue, 2000) by arguing that children by age 7 have adult-like competence and processing strategies for these structures and that observable differences depend on individual memory resources as measured by a digit span task. (Contains 9 tables, 3 figures and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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