Gordana Hržica
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5889463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gordana Hržica |
| PRENOMES | Gordana |
| SOBRENOME | Hržica |
| ASSINATURA | HRŽICA G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Zagreb |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6067-9148 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Acquisition of Morphological Variation
Children’s acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet well understood. This study probes the acquisition of morphological variation in two unrelated languages, Croatian (Slavic) and Estonian (Finnic), focussing on parallel forms of a lexeme expressing a single grammatical category (a phenomenon known as morphological overabundance). We conducted a cross-linguistic elicitation experiment with 140 monolin…
Eye-Tracking in Reading Research
Eye-tracking methods have become a valuable tool for reading research, as they provide significant evidence on the behavioral and cognitive performance of developing readers. They also help identify reading behavior patterns among children with neurodevelopmental conditions, such as reading difficulties (RD) or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this paper, we reviewed relevant literature (73 empirical studies) from 2008 to 2023 …
Narrative macrostructure of Croatian 5–7-year-old preschoolers
Narrative skills start to develop during the preschool years. Significant growth in story structure and complexity is expected in older preschoolers, especially in the years just before they start school. This study aims to examine narrative macrostructure of Croatian preschoolers and the association between their core language skills and age on one side and narrative production abilities on the other side during the final preschool year (~ age o…
Normalne netečnosti u dječjem pripovijedanju
The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity
A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity measures as instruments for measuring language proficiency have been demonstrated in previous studies across different languages. However, the relationship between self-assessment and the two measures has not yet been investigated. The present study focused on the Italophone…
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs
Early research on the first language acquisition of figurative language indicated that figurative language comprehension and production skills develop relatively late, while recent studies contest this view. This study explores early production of metaphorical (e.g., shark meaning a rapacious crafty person ) and metonymic (e.g., house meaning an organisation ) meanings in English polysemous nouns and verbs by using the Braunwald corpus, which tra…
The role of entrenchment and schematisation in the acquisition of rich verbal morphology
Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquisition. In this article, the role of the two processes, operationalised by token and type frequency, in the production of overgeneralised verb forms in Croatian preschool children is investigated using a parental questionnaire and computational simulation of language acquisition. The participants of the questionnaire were parents of children aged 3;0–5…
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia
Referential choice in stories with characters of one or different genders
During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of nominals; the second, a higher number of pronominals. The current study explores referential forms chose…
The Croatian adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
This paper presents the Croatian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN), outlines its development and describes the research that has used it to assess narrative skills in monolingual and bilingual speakers. The Croatian version of MAIN has so far been used in three research projects and results have been presented in five peer-reviewed articles (published or in press) covering a total of 175 children in the age range f…
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 role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition
Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous speech also has an effect on adjective use by the child. The authors studied adjective production in longitudinal speech samples from 16 children (16–36 months) acquiring eight different languages. Adjectives in child speech and child-directed speech were coded as either unrelat…
On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection
This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontan…
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On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection
This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontan…
The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition
Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous speech also has an effect on adjective use by the child. The authors studied adjective production in longitudinal speech samples from 16 children (16–36 months) acquiring eight different languages. Adjectives in child speech and child-directed speech were coded as either unrelat…
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 Croatian adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
This paper presents the Croatian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN), outlines its development and describes the research that has used it to assess narrative skills in monolingual and bilingual speakers. The Croatian version of MAIN has so far been used in three research projects and results have been presented in five peer-reviewed articles (published or in press) covering a total of 175 children in the age range f…
Referential choice in stories with characters of one or different genders
During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of nominals; the second, a higher number of pronominals. The current study explores referential forms chose…
Normalne netečnosti u dječjem pripovijedanju
The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity
A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity measures as instruments for measuring language proficiency have been demonstrated in previous studies across different languages. However, the relationship between self-assessment and the two measures has not yet been investigated. The present study focused on the Italophone…
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs
Early research on the first language acquisition of figurative language indicated that figurative language comprehension and production skills develop relatively late, while recent studies contest this view. This study explores early production of metaphorical (e.g., shark meaning a rapacious crafty person ) and metonymic (e.g., house meaning an organisation ) meanings in English polysemous nouns and verbs by using the Braunwald corpus, which tra…
The role of entrenchment and schematisation in the acquisition of rich verbal morphology
Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquisition. In this article, the role of the two processes, operationalised by token and type frequency, in the production of overgeneralised verb forms in Croatian preschool children is investigated using a parental questionnaire and computational simulation of language acquisition. The participants of the questionnaire were parents of children aged 3;0–5…
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia
Narrative macrostructure of Croatian 5–7-year-old preschoolers
Narrative skills start to develop during the preschool years. Significant growth in story structure and complexity is expected in older preschoolers, especially in the years just before they start school. This study aims to examine narrative macrostructure of Croatian preschoolers and the association between their core language skills and age on one side and narrative production abilities on the other side during the final preschool year (~ age o…
Acquisition of Morphological Variation
Children’s acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet well understood. This study probes the acquisition of morphological variation in two unrelated languages, Croatian (Slavic) and Estonian (Finnic), focussing on parallel forms of a lexeme expressing a single grammatical category (a phenomenon known as morphological overabundance). We conducted a cross-linguistic elicitation experiment with 140 monolin…
Eye-Tracking in Reading Research
Eye-tracking methods have become a valuable tool for reading research, as they provide significant evidence on the behavioral and cognitive performance of developing readers. They also help identify reading behavior patterns among children with neurodevelopmental conditions, such as reading difficulties (RD) or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this paper, we reviewed relevant literature (73 empirical studies) from 2008 to 2023 …
Linguistics (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Croatian (4 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 obras) · Narrative (4 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 obras) · Noun (4 obras)