Word Order Processing in German as a Foreign Language

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22326642
AutoresTeodor Petrič (University of Maribor, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen13
Número41
Páginas163-184
Fecha de publicación2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFolia linguistica et litteraria (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1800-8542 • E-ISSN: 2337-0955
EditorialFaculty of Philology - University of Montenegro (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31902/fll.41.2022.8
OpenAlexW4318470789
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas8

In an experiment on processing effort in sentence comprehension, preference hypotheses on word order and relative clause position were tested in German as a second or foreign language. The experiment involved 62 Slovenian students of German studies in Maribor as participants. The linguistic material consisted of 16 utterances, each with a main clause and a relative clause and each of them a subject-initial or object-initial. The relative clause could occur either after the first or second noun phrase. The procedure used was the self-paced reading paradigm. After each test unit, the participants were asked a comprehension question, either about the subject of the main clause or about the subject of the relative clause. The experiment confirmed the hypotheses that response accuracy to a comprehension question was higher when a clause was subject-initial and when the relative clause occurred after the first noun phrase of the main clause. The experiment did not confirm the assumed interaction between word order and position of the relative clause

Comprehension · Dependent clause · German · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Non-finite clause · Noun · Noun phrase · Relative clause · Sentence · Sentence processing · Word order · Computer Science · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic research and analysis