Animacy effects on the production of object-dislocated descriptions by Catalan-speaking children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20368572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merce Prat-Sala, Mercè Prat‐sala (University of Plymouth), Richard Shillcock (0000-0002-0616-3703, University of Edinburgh), Antonella Sorace (0000-0002-8812-1979, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-117 |
| Publication date | 2000-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000999004031 |
| PMID | 10740969 |
| OpenAlex | W2035897500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
This paper presents an experiment that examined two related questions. First, it examined the effects of animacy on the production of different syntactic structures and word orders by Catalan-speaking children. Secondly, it explored the relationship between age and the production of different syntactic structures by these children. The results of a picture description experiment run with eighty Catalan-speaking children aged 4;11 to 11;11 show that participants tended to produce more object-dislocated descriptions when the patient was animate than when the patient was inanimate. The results also show that while the dislocation of object clauses is a construction already consolidated at 5;0, the passive structure is a construction still not fully acquired at 11;0. A comparison between the results obtained in the present experiment with existing results from similar experiments with English-speaking children shows that there is a cross-language difference in the age at which children start producing passive clauses. We argue that frequency of exposure to a particular syntactic structure is an important factor that contributes to the acquisition of that syntactic structure. We also suggest that the effects of animacy on the production of object-dislocated descriptions can be explained by means of conceptual and lexical accessibility
Animacy · Catalan · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Language acquisition · Language production · Linguistics · Syntax · Word order · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Citations per year | 0.7 |
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| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |