Repository of University of Nova Gorica

Search the repository
A+ | A- | Help | SLO | ENG

Query: search in
search in
search in
search in
* old and bologna study programme

Options:
  Reset


61 - 70 / 179
First pagePrevious page3456789101112Next pageLast page
61.
Does Grammatical Structure Accelerate Number Word Learning? Evidence from Learners of Dual and Non-Dual Dialects of Slovenian
Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, Vesna Plesničar, Tina Razboršek, Jessica Sullivan, David Barner, 2016, original scientific article

Abstract: How does linguistic structure affect children’s acquisition of early number word meanings? Previous studies have tested this question by comparing how children learning languages with different grammatical representations of number learn the meanings of labels for small numbers, like 1, 2, and 3. For example, children who acquire a language with singular-plural marking, like English, are faster to learn the word for 1 than children learning a language that lacks the singular-plural distinction, perhaps because the word for 1 is always used in singular contexts, highlighting its meaning. These studies are problematic, however, because reported differences in number word learning may be due to unmeasured cross-cultural differences rather than specific linguistic differences. To address this problem, we investigated number word learning in four groups of children from a single culture who spoke different dialects of the same language that differed chiefly with respect to how they grammatically mark number. We found that learning a dialect which features “dual” morphology (marking of pairs) accelerated children’s acquisition of the number word two relative to learning a “non-dual” dialect of the same language.
Keywords: števila, številke, slovnično število, dvojina, narečja, usvajanje, učenje, slovenščina, angleščina, numbers, grammatical number, dual, dialects, acquisition, learning, Slovenian, English
Published in RUNG: 10.08.2016; Views: 4912; Downloads: 241
.pdf Full text (1,38 MB)

62.
Conjunct Agreement and Gender in South Slavic: From Theory to Experiments to Theory
Jana Willer Gold, Franc Marušič, Tina Šuligoj, 2016, original scientific article

Abstract: Agreement with coordinated subjects in Slavic languages has recently seen a rapid increase in theoretical and experimental approaches, contributing to a wider theoretical discussion on the locus of agreement in grammar (cf. Marušič, Nevins, and Saksida 2007; Bošković 2009; Marušič, Nevins, and Badecker 2015). This paper revisits the theoretical predictions proposed for conjunction agreement in a group of South Slavic languages, with a special focus on gender agreement. The paper is based on two experiments involving speakers of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) and Slovenian (Sln). Experiment 1 is an elicited production experiment investigating preverbal-conjunct agreement, while Experiment 2 investigates postverbal-conjunct agreement. The data provide experimental evidence discriminating between syntax proper and distributed-agreement models in terms of their ability to account for preverbal highest-conjunct agreement and present a theoretical mechanism for the distinction between default agreement (which has a fixed number and gender, independent of the value of each conjunct) and resolved agreement (which computes number and gender based on the values of each conjunct and must resolve potential conflicts). Focusing on the variability in the gender-agreement ratio across nine combinations, the experimental results for BCS and Sln morphosyntax challenge the notion of gender markedness that is generally posited for South Slavic languages.
Keywords: skladnja, slovenščina, srbohrvaščina, eksperimentalna skladnja, ujemanje, sestavljeni osebek, priderno vezan osebek, ujemanje sestavljenega osebka
Published in RUNG: 06.07.2016; Views: 5868; Downloads: 0
This document has many files! More...

63.
Primeri skladenjskega podvajanja veznikov okoli podrednih stavkov v slovenščini
Vesna Plesničar, 2016, master's thesis

Abstract: V magistrskem delu utemeljim pojav podvajanja veznikov okoli podrednih stavkov v slovenščini kot skladenjski pojav. Predstavim primere vezniškega podvajanja v slovenščini ter primere in analize vezniškega podvajanja v romanskih jezikih (prim. Ledgeway 2005, Paoli 2003, 2006, Mascarenhas 2007, Dagnac 2012, Villa-Garcia 2012, Gonzalez i Planas 2014, Munaro 2015). Predhodno opravljene analize apliciram na slovenske primere. Posredno se dotaknem tudi vprašanja o možnostih stave naslonk v podrednih stavkih na splošno in bolj specifično v konstrukcijah s podvajanjem veznikov okoli podrednih stavkov. Čeprav obstajajo tudi druge analize polja leve periferije (prim. Authier 1992, Lasnik in Saito 1992, Koizumi 1995) in konkretno podvajanih vezniških konstrukcij (prim. McCloskey), predpostavljam, da je razlaga vezniškega podvajanja mogoča zgolj ob predpostavki o obstoju členjene leve periferije (prim. Rizzi 1997). Nadalje izpostavim potrebo po dopolnitvi dosedanjih predlogov za analiziranje konstrukcij s podvajanim veznikom, upoštevajoč tudi slovenske primere. Ugotavljam tudi, da naslonke v slovenščini nimajo točno določene pozicije v stavčni zgradbi (prim. Marušič 2008) ter da je jedro najvišje stavčne projekcije zgolj ena izmed možnih pozicij, v kateri se lahko pojavijo (drugače kot trdijo npr. Franks 1998, Golden in Milojević Sheppard 2000).
Keywords: veznik, vezniško podvajanje, vezniška zveza, podredni stavki, hipoteza o členjeni levi periferiji, naslonke
Published in RUNG: 16.06.2016; Views: 6746; Downloads: 367
.pdf Full text (768,85 KB)

64.
65.
Can agreement with the linearly closest conjunct be derived in syntax proper?
Franc Marušič, Jana Willer Gold, Boban Arsenijević, Andrew Nevins, 2015, published scientific conference contribution abstract

Abstract: The recent literature on South Slavic conjunct agreement can be roughly divided into two camps: those trying to model the cases of agreement with linearly closest conjunct, as in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) example in (1) (taken from Bošković 2009), within syntax (Bošković 2009, Puškar & Murphy 2015 a.o.) and those claiming this agreement is a result of a postsyntactic operation that occurs after linearization and hence is sensitive to the linear distance between two syntactic elements (among these, Bhatt & Walkow 2013, Marušič et al 2015). We present a strong argument against strictly syntactic theories of conjunct agreement that leverages experimental work on BCS conjunct agreement and builds on data in Aljović & Begović (2015).
Keywords: verb agreement, conjunct agreement, experimental syntax, Slovenian
Published in RUNG: 21.03.2016; Views: 4518; Downloads: 0
This document has many files! More...

66.
Beyond Knower Levels: Early partial knowledge of number words
Katie Wagner, Franc Marušič, Vesna Plesničar, Tina Razboršek, Jessica Sullivan, Rok Žaucer, David Barner, 2015, published scientific conference contribution abstract

Abstract: Although both syntax and number words can indicate quantity, only numbers can specify large exact quantities. Do children use syntax to bootstrap preliminary meanings of number words before mastering precise meanings? We compared errors across languages on a Give-a-Number task in non-knowers (who have adult meanings for no number words) and subset knowers (who have adult meanings for fewer than five number words). Participants included learners of English, Spanish, French, and two dialects of Slovenian. One dialect, Central Slovenian, has rich number morphology including singular, dual, small plural, and large plural (for 5+). In all languages, subset knowers and some non-knowers demonstrated better than random responding for at least 2 number words beyond the largest number word they comprehended precisely. Additionally, Central Slovenian-learning non- and 1- knowers responded more accurately to requests for higher numbers than their counterparts in other languages, suggesting that rich plural marking may bootstrap number word meanings.
Keywords: knower level, grammatical number, acquisition of number words, bootstrapping
Published in RUNG: 21.03.2016; Views: 4815; Downloads: 0
This document has many files! More...

67.
On the Optionality of Wh-Fronting in a Multiple Wh-Fronting Language
Petra Mišmaš, 2015, doctoral dissertation

Abstract: This thesis explores the fact that in Slovenian multiple wh-questions not all wh-phrases have to front. This suggests that multiple wh-movement in Slovenian is optional. The majority of the existing literature on multiple wh-fronting focuses on questions in which all wh-phrases have to move to clause initial positions, I, on the other hand, focus on optionality in multiple wh-questions. I show movement in Slovenian is not avoided because of phonological, syntactic or semantic restrictions that influence other languages (cf. Bošković 2002), and that the Principle of Distinctness (Richards 2010) does not account for all cases of optional multiple wh-fronting in Slovenian. Three types of multiple wh-questions in Slovenian are determined and analyzed: (i) questions in which all wh-phrases move to clause initial positions (i.e. questions with multiple wh-fronting), (ii) questions in which one wh-phrase has to be moved to a clause initial position and the rest undergo movement to a clause internal position (multiple wh-questions with short movement), (iii) questions in which at least one wh-phrase has to be moved to a clause initial position and the rest stay in situ (multiple wh-questions with wh-in-situ). Crucially, in all three types at least one wh-phrase has to move to a clause initial position for a question to receive a true question reading. I assume the Cartographic approach and propose an account of multiple wh-fronting in Slovenian in which one wh-phrase has to move to an Interrogative Projection (the clause initial position) in the Left Periphery while the remaining wh-phrases move to Wh-Projections in the Left Periphery, questions in (i), or the Low Periphery, questions in (ii). I propose that wh-phrases with a wh-feature undergo wh-movement, which means that wh-movement is in fact obligatory in Slovenian. In questions of type (iii), wh-phrases that do not undergo movement are in fact bare wh-pronouns, which one also finds in polarity contexts, that are licensed by the interpretable Q+wh-feature located in the Interrogative Projection. Because the bare wh-pronouns do not come with a wh-feature, they do not have to move. I conclude that wh-movement in Slovenian only appears to be optional.
Keywords: multiple wh-fronting, short movement, optionality, Interrogative Projection, Left Periphery, Low Periphery, bare wh-pronouns, wh-in-situ
Published in RUNG: 10.11.2015; Views: 7947; Downloads: 406
.pdf Full text (1,43 MB)

68.
Skladenjska zgradba oziralnih stavkov v slovenščini : diplomsko delo
Tina Šuligoj, 2013, undergraduate thesis

Keywords: diplomske naloge, oziralni stavki, skladnja, rekonstrukcija, navezovanje, k-premik
Published in RUNG: 19.02.2015; Views: 6063; Downloads: 367
.pdf Full text (659,75 KB)
This document has many files! More...

69.
70.
O domnevni potrebi po večanju univerz in velikosti kot kazalniku kvalitete
Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, 2012, polemic, discussion, commentary

Keywords: visoko šolstvo, Slovenija, polemika, univerze, kakovost
Published in RUNG: 25.04.2014; Views: 5187; Downloads: 29
URL Link to full text

Search done in 0.06 sec.
Back to top