Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė
Biographic Data
| ID | 4325139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė |
| SIGNATURE | KAMANDULYTĖ-MERFELDIENĖ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vytautas Magnus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6020-4556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asimetrinė komunikacija
The emotional bond between pets and their owners is intimate in many cultures, where pets are often regarded as family members or even children. Communication with pet animals is frequently likened to infant/child-centered speech situations (Mattiello et al. 2021: 150). Pet owners commonly employ specific language forms that convey sympathy, empathy, or playfulness. This study aimed to explore the characteristics of pet-directed speech in Lithuan…
An overview of the adaptation of Main to Lithuanian and research using the Lithuanian Main
This paper describes the Lithuanian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN) and presents research that used MAIN for narrative analysis of Lithuanian-speaking monolingual and bilingual typically-developing children and children with a language disorder. Our target group is preschool and primary school children, as we believe that narrative and general language skills at preschool and early school age should be investigat…
Lithuanian
Lithuanian: A Comprehensive Grammar Meilute Ramoniene, Joana Pribušauskaite, Jogile Teresa Ramonaite and Loreta Vilkiene (2020) London: Routledge. New York: Taylor and Francis. Pp. 354 ISBN: 9781138063617 (pbk) ISBN: 9781138063600 (hbk) ISBN: 9781315160900 (eBook)
The Acquisition of Adjective Gradation in Lithuanian Children with Developmental Language Disorder at Preschool and Pre-primary School Age
The aim of the study is to examine Lithuanian children’s with developmental language disorder abilities in forming comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives. We report the data from a Sentence Completion Study with 80 Lithuanian children with developmental language disorder (age range 4;6-6;5) and 80 typically developing Lithuanian children (age range 4;6-6;5). For the picture-based comparative and superlative formation task, 30 adjective…
From Daily Conversation to Public Speech
The aim of the paper is to describe a variety of different registers of spoken Lithuanian and to discuss and compare their lexical and grammatical characteristics. Thus, in this article we: (1) characterize different registers and genres of spoken Lithuanian; (2) present a distribution of different parts of speech in the Corpus; (3) discuss the lexical diversity; (4) present the most typical inverted order of words; (5) when possible, compare our…
First-language acquisition of synthetic compounds in Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian and Saami
Delayed language development
The aim of the article is to discuss the features of delayed language development, focusing on the acquisition of the grammatical system on the basis of corpus data. The main object of the present investigation is longitudinal language data of three children (a late talker and a pair of twins). To describe the features of delayed language development, the language of the above-mentioned children has been compared to the language of typically deve…
Early Language Acquisition
The aim of the article is to discuss the early language acquisition, which comprises the language acquisition period from the very beginning of the grammar system development to its complete formation. In the present research, the part of The Corpus of Lithuanian Children Language, which comprises transcribed and grammatically coded longitudinal language records of four singletons (two typically developing children, one typically developing early…
The Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian as a Research Source of Natural Usage
The article describes the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian, its structure, compilation stages (collection of the recordings, transcription, and grammatical annotation), and the methodology of data collection and digitalization; in addition, it discusses the possibilities of corpus application in the research of natural language usage and the research, which has already been carried out, using the corpus data. At present (2017), the corpus, which is fr…
The use of attributive clauses in spoken Lithuanian
The syntactic features of spoken Lithuanian are still under-researched due to insufficient data bases, limited technologies, and research methodologies. During the last years, the "Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian" (developed at Vytautas Magnus University; 225,000 words; 80 hours of digitalized audio recordings) has been syntactically annotated, and this has enabled complex automatized syntactic analysis. In the present paper, one of the first such st…
Atributinių ir predikatinių junginių su būdvardžiais dažnumas ir struktūra sakytinėje kalboje
Tyrimo tikslas ‒ remiantis natūralios kalbos analize, aprašyti sintaksinių būdvardžių funkcijų skyrimo kriterijus, aptarti atributinių ir predikatinių junginių su būdvardžiais struktūrą bei dažnumą sakytinėje kalboje. Tyrimo metu taikomas tekstynų lingvistikos metodas. Tyrimo šaltinis – Vytauto Didžiojo universitete sukurtas morfologiškai ir iš dalies sintaksiškai anotuotas 225 000 žodžių Sakytinės lietuvių kalbos tekstynas, apimantis 80 valandų …
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Productivity patterns of derivational and inflectional adaptation of new borrowings
The paper analyses affixation of new borrowings in Lithuanian and the process of their integration into the system of Lithuanian morphological paradigms applying the framework of Natural Morphology. Two word classes, nouns and adjectives, have been analysed and productivity patterns of the new lexicon are presented and discussed. To the group of new borrowings are assigned those items that have been accepted into Lithuanian since 1990 or those th…
Morphosyntactic Features of Lithuanian Adjective Acquisition
This paper investigates morphosyntactic (agreement) features of Lithuanian adjective acquisition. Although some researchers of Lithuanian language development have dealt with the acquisition of morphology (Balčiūnienė 2005a, 2005b; Savickienė 2000, 2003, 2006a, 2006b, 2007; Savickienė et al. 2009; Wójcik 2000; Wójcik & Smoczyńska 1997), this study is the first attempt to describe the emergence of morphosyntactic features of adjectives. Analyzing …
Morphosyntactic Features of Lithuanian Adjective Acquisition
This paper investigates morphosyntactic (agreement) features of Lithuanian adjective acquisition. Although some researchers of Lithuanian language development have dealt with the acquisition of morphology (Balčiūnienė 2005a, 2005b; Savickienė 2000, 2003, 2006a, 2006b, 2007; Savickienė et al. 2009; Wójcik 2000; Wójcik & Smoczyńska 1997), this study is the first attempt to describe the emergence of morphosyntactic features of adjectives. Analyzing …
Productivity patterns of derivational and inflectional adaptation of new borrowings
The paper analyses affixation of new borrowings in Lithuanian and the process of their integration into the system of Lithuanian morphological paradigms applying the framework of Natural Morphology. Two word classes, nouns and adjectives, have been analysed and productivity patterns of the new lexicon are presented and discussed. To the group of new borrowings are assigned those items that have been accepted into Lithuanian since 1990 or those th…
The use of attributive clauses in spoken Lithuanian
The syntactic features of spoken Lithuanian are still under-researched due to insufficient data bases, limited technologies, and research methodologies. During the last years, the "Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian" (developed at Vytautas Magnus University; 225,000 words; 80 hours of digitalized audio recordings) has been syntactically annotated, and this has enabled complex automatized syntactic analysis. In the present paper, one of the first such st…
Atributinių ir predikatinių junginių su būdvardžiais dažnumas ir struktūra sakytinėje kalboje
Tyrimo tikslas ‒ remiantis natūralios kalbos analize, aprašyti sintaksinių būdvardžių funkcijų skyrimo kriterijus, aptarti atributinių ir predikatinių junginių su būdvardžiais struktūrą bei dažnumą sakytinėje kalboje. Tyrimo metu taikomas tekstynų lingvistikos metodas. Tyrimo šaltinis – Vytauto Didžiojo universitete sukurtas morfologiškai ir iš dalies sintaksiškai anotuotas 225 000 žodžių Sakytinės lietuvių kalbos tekstynas, apimantis 80 valandų …
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
The Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian as a Research Source of Natural Usage
The article describes the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian, its structure, compilation stages (collection of the recordings, transcription, and grammatical annotation), and the methodology of data collection and digitalization; in addition, it discusses the possibilities of corpus application in the research of natural language usage and the research, which has already been carried out, using the corpus data. At present (2017), the corpus, which is fr…
Delayed language development
The aim of the article is to discuss the features of delayed language development, focusing on the acquisition of the grammatical system on the basis of corpus data. The main object of the present investigation is longitudinal language data of three children (a late talker and a pair of twins). To describe the features of delayed language development, the language of the above-mentioned children has been compared to the language of typically deve…
Early Language Acquisition
The aim of the article is to discuss the early language acquisition, which comprises the language acquisition period from the very beginning of the grammar system development to its complete formation. In the present research, the part of The Corpus of Lithuanian Children Language, which comprises transcribed and grammatically coded longitudinal language records of four singletons (two typically developing children, one typically developing early…
From Daily Conversation to Public Speech
The aim of the paper is to describe a variety of different registers of spoken Lithuanian and to discuss and compare their lexical and grammatical characteristics. Thus, in this article we: (1) characterize different registers and genres of spoken Lithuanian; (2) present a distribution of different parts of speech in the Corpus; (3) discuss the lexical diversity; (4) present the most typical inverted order of words; (5) when possible, compare our…
First-language acquisition of synthetic compounds in Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian and Saami
The Acquisition of Adjective Gradation in Lithuanian Children with Developmental Language Disorder at Preschool and Pre-primary School Age
The aim of the study is to examine Lithuanian children’s with developmental language disorder abilities in forming comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives. We report the data from a Sentence Completion Study with 80 Lithuanian children with developmental language disorder (age range 4;6-6;5) and 80 typically developing Lithuanian children (age range 4;6-6;5). For the picture-based comparative and superlative formation task, 30 adjective…
Lithuanian
Lithuanian: A Comprehensive Grammar Meilute Ramoniene, Joana Pribušauskaite, Jogile Teresa Ramonaite and Loreta Vilkiene (2020) London: Routledge. New York: Taylor and Francis. Pp. 354 ISBN: 9781138063617 (pbk) ISBN: 9781138063600 (hbk) ISBN: 9781315160900 (eBook)
Asimetrinė komunikacija
The emotional bond between pets and their owners is intimate in many cultures, where pets are often regarded as family members or even children. Communication with pet animals is frequently likened to infant/child-centered speech situations (Mattiello et al. 2021: 150). Pet owners commonly employ specific language forms that convey sympathy, empathy, or playfulness. This study aimed to explore the characteristics of pet-directed speech in Lithuan…
An overview of the adaptation of Main to Lithuanian and research using the Lithuanian Main
This paper describes the Lithuanian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN) and presents research that used MAIN for narrative analysis of Lithuanian-speaking monolingual and bilingual typically-developing children and children with a language disorder. Our target group is preschool and primary school children, as we believe that narrative and general language skills at preschool and early school age should be investigat…
Linguistics (12 works) · Lithuanian (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Noun (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language acquisition (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works)