Suvremena lingvistika, Vol. 44 No. 85, 2018.
Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2018.085.13
Resolution of anaphoric expressions in children and adults: evidence from eye movements
Marijan Palmović
Ana Matić
Melita Kovačević
Sažetak
This eye–tracking study uses the visual world paradigm to explore the anaphora resolution strategies in children and adults. The pro–drop feature of Croatian was used to
indicate the switch in topic while visual cues on the accompanying pictures provided different contexts. The results suggest that both children and adults rely more on visual
cues, but when these cues are not available, the two groups behave differently. Adults tend to choose the Agent as the antecedent, while children’s behaviour is unclear as they
perform at chance. These results are in line with similar studies in Italian and Spanish regarding the pro–drop feature as an indicator of the change in topic, as well as with
French and Greek studies regarding developmental changes in the reliance on linguistic and non–linguistic information.
Ključne riječi
anaphora; pro–drop feature; eye movements; contextual information; language comprehension; Croatian
Hrčak ID:
203949
URI
Datum izdavanja:
23.7.2018.
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