Verb-based prediction during language processing: the case of Dutch and Turkish
Abstract This study investigated whether cross-linguistic differences affect semantic prediction. We assessed this by looking at two languages, Dutch and Turkish, that differ in word order and thus vary in how words come together to create sentence meaning. In an eye-tracking task, Dutch and Turkish four-year-olds ( N = 40), five-year-olds ( N = 58), and adults ( N = 40) were presented with a visual display containing two familiar objects (e.g., a cake and a tree). Participants heard semantically constraining (e.g., “The boy eats the big cake”) or neutral sentences (e.g., “The boy sees the big... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of Child Language ; volume 46, issue 1, page 80-97 ; ISSN 0305-0009 1469-7602 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27467525 |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000918000375 |