Original scientific paper

Croatian-Hungarian Mental Lexicon

Judit Navracsics ; University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary

Abstract

In the territory of Hungary, there are about 40 settlements which are inhabited by Croats, whose linguistic competence embraces all the three dialects of Croatian (kaj, što and ča). However, their language varieties are a bit different from the Croatian language in Croatia, especially at the lexical level, as a result of being physically distant from the homeland. In this paper, the mental lexicons and speech productions of some representatives of the different Croatian communities living in Hungary will be discussed. The data are gained from examination of their narrative skills which also includes the study of their disfluencies during speech production. The main goal of these experiments is to find empirical data concerning the influences of the two languages on each other.

Keywords

mental lexicon; speech production; Croatian; Hungarian

Hrčak ID:

31982

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31982

Publication date:

29.9.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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