41. ТЕОРЕТИЧНИ И ПСИХОЛИНГВИСТИЧНИ АСПЕКТИ НА БРОЙНАТА ФОРМА В БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ЕЗИКPetya Barkalova, Penka Stateva, Arthur Stepanov, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: Статията съдържа преглед на произхода и употребата на бройната форма на съществителните в българския език. Представят се резултатите от експериментално проучване, включващо 49 участници, за които българският език е роден. То изследва ролята
на структурната дистанция между съгласуващите се категории в
рамките на именните конституенти, съдържащи числително. Разработката е продължение на изследователската програма
на Статева и Степанов (Stateva, Stepanov 2016), включваща корпусно изследване, в което се твърди, че структурното, а
не линейното разстояние влияе върху съотношението на грешките
при употребата на бройната форма. Въпреки че корпусното изследване установи като ясна отличителна черта ролята на структурното разстояние, текущият психолингвистичен експеримент не повтаря тези резултати. Предлагаме обяснение на резултатите, което взема предвид изчислителна сложност, натоварването на
работната памет и образователния статус на участниците. Keywords: бройна форма, грешки в съгласуването, предписваща и описваща
граматика Published in RUNG: 03.01.2019; Views: 3124; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
42. Usvajanje načela maksimiziranja predpostavke v kontekstu slovenskih glagolov 'misliti' in 'vedeti'Manca Mušič, 2018, master's thesis Abstract: Magistrsko delo se osredotoča na pragmatično načelo maksimiziranja predpostavke (Maximize Presupposition). Uporabljeni so bili rezultati eksperimentalne študije, ki je vključevala slovenska glagola misliti in vedeti. Glavni cilj raziskave je bil preveriti, pri kateri starosti je možno pri otrocih zaslediti poznavanje načela maksimiziranja predpostavke, njihovo zmožnost izračuna sklepov, ki jih načelo sproži, in izbire optimalne alternative. V eksperimentu sta sodelovali skupini otrok v starosti 5 in 7 let. Uporabljena metodologija in gradivo sta temeljila na referenčni študiji Stateve in drugih (2017), ki je proučevala vlogo dvojezičnosti na usvajanje načela. Rezultati magistrskega dela napeljujejo na obstoj razvojne osi usvajanja načela pred sedmim letom ter odpirajo vprašanja glede usvajanja faktivnega glagola vedeti pri petih letih. Keywords: pragmatika, jezikoslovje, usvajanje jezika, psiholingvistika, slovenščina Published in RUNG: 27.09.2018; Views: 4816; Downloads: 161 Full text (1,25 MB) |
43. Two (non-)islands in Slovenian : A study in experimental syntaxArthur Stepanov, Manca Mušič, Penka Stateva, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: There exists a controversy in the literature and among the speakers of Slovenian concerning the grammaticality of wh-island and subject island constructions in this language. We conducted an acceptability rating study of wh-islands and subject islands in Slovenian, using the factorial definition of island. This definition provides for a possibility to isolate a true island effect while controlling for two complexity factors that potentially interfere in speakers’ evaluation of the relevant sentences: the length of the respective movement dependency and the presence of an island structure itself. We found that (i) Slovenian speakers do judge the wh-island sentences worse than the respective controls, but the observed degradation cannot be attributed to a true island effect; (ii) subject extraction out of a wh-island leads to a so called reverse island effect whereby the acceptability is higher than expected even if the above two complexity factors are taken into consideration; and (iii) speakers are sensitive to the subject island effect, as predicted by the mainstream theories of syntactic locality. The results of our study contribute to establishing a solid empirical base for further theoretical investigations of the island effects and raise new questions about the role of processing factors in speakers’ evaluations of island constructions. Keywords: syntactic island, experimental syntax, Subjacency, Empty Category Principle, Slovenian Published in RUNG: 11.06.2018; Views: 4224; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
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45. Countability, agreement and the loss of the dual in RussianArthur Stepanov, Penka Stateva, 2018, original scientific article Keywords: agreement, atomicity, classifier, countability, dual number, numeral, Russian, Bulgarian Published in RUNG: 21.03.2018; Views: 3940; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
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47. Countability and the structure of numeral-based QPsArthur Stepanov, Penka Stateva, unpublished invited conference lecture Keywords: countability, atomicity, numeral, agreement, dual number, classifier, russian, morphology, syntax, semantics Published in RUNG: 07.02.2018; Views: 3915; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
48. Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals : The case of scalar implicaturesLudivine Dupuy, Penka Stateva, Sara Andreetta, Anne Cheylus, Viviane Déprez, Jean-Baptiste van der Henst, Jacques Jayez, Arthur Stepanov, Anne Colette Reboul, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners ( Slabakova, 2010 ) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early bilingual children are unclear, some finding a significant increase in pragmatic responses in early bilingual children (preschoolers) relative to monolinguals ( Siegal et al., 2007 ), while another ( Antoniou and Katsos, 2017 ), testing school children, does not. We tested adult French L2 learners of English and Spanish (in their two languages) as well as French monolingual controls in Experiment 1 and Italian-Slovenian early bilingual children (in both languages) and Slovenian monolingual controls in Experiment 2. Our results were similar to those of Antoniou and Katsos (2017) in early bilingual children, but different from those of Siegal et al. (2007) . We found no pragmatic bias in adult L2 leaners relative to adult monolinguals. Keywords: quantifier, scalar implicature, L2 learner, bilingualism Published in RUNG: 17.01.2018; Views: 3709; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
49. Children's early bilingualism and musical training influence prosodic discrimination of sentences in an unknown languageArthur Stepanov, Matic Pavlič, Penka Stateva, Anne Reboul, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: This study investigated whether early bilingualism and early musical training positively influence the ability to discriminate between prosodic patterns corresponding to different syntactic structures in otherwise phonetically identical sentences in an unknown language. In a same-different discrimination task, participants (N = 108) divided into four groups (monolingual non-musicians, monolingual musicians, bilingual non-musicians, and bilingual musicians) listened to pairs of short sentences in a language unknown to them (French). In discriminating phonetically identical but prosodically different sentences, musicians, bilinguals, and bilingual musicians outperformed the controls. However, there was no interaction between bilingualism and musical training to suggest an additive effect. These results underscore the significant role of both types of experience in enhancing the listeners' sensitivity to prosodic information. Keywords: prosody, bilingualism, same-different task, French, musical training, acoustics, brain Published in RUNG: 10.01.2018; Views: 3968; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
50. L’impact de l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde sur les capacités pragmatiques : le cas des implicatures scalairesLudivine Dupuy, Penka Stateva, Sara Andreetta, Anne Cheylus, Jean-Baptiste van der Henst, Jacques Jayez, Arthur Stepanov, Anne Reboul, 2017, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: There is a vast amount of studies on some forms of implicit communication such as scalar implicatures by monolingual speakers, but few studies have been carried out on the pragmatic capacities of second language learners. The only available data have been collected in Slabakova (2010). This study has shown that L2 learners are more pragmatic than L1 speakers by interpreting a scalar term in their L2. However the replicability of the results has been called into question because of methodological issues and conclusions ignoring empirical data on cognitive processing of scalar implicatures. We therefore used the same experimental material as Slabakova (2010) but improved the methodology and asked two groups of L2 French learners to make a sentence verification task. After a short context, they had to judge an underinformative sentence based on the scalar terms , (). The L2 learners have been tested in their two languages and compared to a sample of French monolinguals. The results of Slabakova (2010) have been replicated since the L2 learners make more inferences in French as monolinguals do. Our results also show that the L2 learners more often derive implicatures in their L1 than monolinguals in the same L1. This suggests that learning a second language has an impact on the way to communicate not only in the L2 but also in the L1. Keywords: pragmatic abilities, scalar implicatures, L2 bilingualism Published in RUNG: 07.12.2017; Views: 4138; Downloads: 192 Full text (806,33 KB) |