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    Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children (2014)
    Potsdam : Univ.-Verl.
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    gbv_791519953
    Format: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: XX, 325 S., 6.772 KB) , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: Spektrum Patholinguistik - Schriften 6
    Content: Previous studies on the acquisition of verb inflection in normally developing children have revealed an astonishing pattern: children use correctly inflected verbs in their own speech but fail to make use of verb inflections when comprehending sentences uttered by others. Thus, a three-year old might well be able to say something like ‘The cat sleeps on the bed’, but fails to understand that the same sentence, when uttered by another person, refers to only one sleeping cat but not more than one. The previous studies that have examined children's comprehension of verb inflections have employed a variant of a picture selection task in which the child was asked to explicitly indicate (via pointing) what semantic meaning she had inferred from the test sentence. Recent research on other linguistic structures, such as pronouns or focus particles, has indicated that earlier comprehension abilities can be found when methods are used that do not require an explicit reaction, like preferential looking tasks. This dissertation aimed to examine whether children are truly not able to understand the connection the the verb form and the meaning of the sentence subject until the age of five years or whether earlier comprehension can be found when a different measure, preferential looking, is used. Additionally, children's processing of subject-verb agreement violations was examined. The three experiments of this thesis that examined children's comprehension of verb inflections revealed the following: German-speaking three- to four-year old children looked more to a picture showing one actor when hearing a sentence with a singular inflected verb but only when their eye gaze was tracked and they did not have to perform a picture selection task. When they were asked to point to the matching picture, they performed at chance-level. This pattern indicates asymmetries in children's language performance even within the receptive modality. The fourth experiment examined sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations and did not reveal evidence for sensitivity toward agreement violations in three- and four-year old children, but only found that children's looking patterns were influenced by the grammatical violations at the age of five. The results from these experiments are discussed in relation to the existence of a production-comprehension asymmetry in the use of verb inflections and children's underlying grammatical knowledge.
    Note: Zugl.: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2012
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783869562162
    Additional Edition: Druckausg. Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2014 ISBN 9783869562162
    Language: English
    Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
    RVK:
    ER 920
    Keywords: Deutsch ; Konjugation ; Sprachverstehen ; Kind ; Hochschulschrift
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62046
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    Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children (2014)
    Potsdam : Univ.-Verl.
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    gbv_791513920
    Format: XX, 325 S. , graph. Darst. , 21 cm
    ISBN: 9783869562162
    Series Statement: Spektrum Patholinguistik - Schriften 6
    Content: Previous studies on the acquisition of verb inflection in normally developing children have revealed an astonishing pattern: children use correctly inflected verbs in their own speech but fail to make use of verb inflections when comprehending sentences uttered by others. Thus, a three-year old might well be able to say something like ‘The cat sleeps on the bed’, but fails to understand that the same sentence, when uttered by another person, refers to only one sleeping cat but not more than one. The previous studies that have examined children's comprehension of verb inflections have employed a variant of a picture selection task in which the child was asked to explicitly indicate (via pointing) what semantic meaning she had inferred from the test sentence. Recent research on other linguistic structures, such as pronouns or focus particles, has indicated that earlier comprehension abilities can be found when methods are used that do not require an explicit reaction, like preferential looking tasks. This dissertation aimed to examine whether children are truly not able to understand the connection the the verb form and the meaning of the sentence subject until the age of five years or whether earlier comprehension can be found when a different measure, preferential looking, is used. Additionally, children's processing of subject-verb agreement violations was examined. The three experiments of this thesis that examined children's comprehension of verb inflections revealed the following: German-speaking three- to four-year old children looked more to a picture showing one actor when hearing a sentence with a singular inflected verb but only when their eye gaze was tracked and they did not have to perform a picture selection task. When they were asked to point to the matching picture, they performed at chance-level. This pattern indicates asymmetries in children's language performance even within the receptive modality. The fourth experiment examined sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations and did not reveal evidence for sensitivity toward agreement violations in three- and four-year old children, but only found that children's looking patterns were influenced by the grammatical violations at the age of five. The results from these experiments are discussed in relation to the existence of a production-comprehension asymmetry in the use of verb inflections and children's underlying grammatical knowledge.
    Note: Zugl.: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2012
    Additional Edition: Online-Ausg. Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2014
    Language: English
    Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
    RVK:
    ER 920
    Keywords: Deutsch ; Konjugation ; Sprachverstehen ; Kind ; Hochschulschrift
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina
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    Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language / (2011)
    Berlin ; : De Gruyter Mouton,
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    almahu_9949481524702882
    Format: 1 online resource (274 p.)
    ISBN: 9783110259179 , 9783110238570
    Series Statement: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 43
    Content: The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabrück in 2009 is the starting point for this book. The workshop developed from the observation that children's production skills appear to precede their comprehension skills in a number of phenomena, e.g. pronouns or negation. The volume provides cross-linguistic evidence for such asymmetric development and investigates grammatical and methodical explanations of the observed asymmetries.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Acknowledgements -- , Table of contents -- , Introduction -- , Testing the Aspect Hypothesis in child Tamil -- , An asymmetry in the acquisition of accusative clitics in child Romanian -- , Comprehension and imitated production of personal pronouns across languages -- , Comprehension and production of subject pronouns in child Dutch -- , Asymmetries in the processing of object relatives in child Hebrew and Italian -- , A comprehension delay of subject-object word order in Dutch preschoolers -- , Asymmetries in children's language performance within and across modalities -- , Adults' on-line comprehension of object pronouns in discourse -- , Production and comprehension of sentence negation in child German -- , Principle B delays as a processing problem: Evidence from task effects -- , Subject index , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.
    In: DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
    In: DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
    In: DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
    In: De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
    In: E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261189
    In: E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261233
    In: E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261226
    In: E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261240
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110238723
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110259179
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259179
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110259179
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