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http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/064.2016.63.1.3 |
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Status = Published
Type = Article
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The pronoun interpretation problem in child Hungarian
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| Létrehozó: |
Rákosi, György
Tóth, Enikő
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| Dátum: |
2016
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BF05 Child psychology / gyermeklélektan
PH04 Hungarian language and literature / magyar nyelv és irodalom
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| Tartalmi leírás: |
In a number of languages, children have problems with the
interpretation of pronouns if a potential local antecedent is
present. There is an intensive debate on whether this effect
is due to a delayed acquisition of Principle B, or it is the
result of pragmatic or processing difficulties that children
face in interpretation tasks. We conducted two experiments
involving a picture-sentence verification task to investigate
whether the Pronoun Interpretation Problem exists in
Hungarian child language. We found that the Problem is
present if the test sentences are given in isolation, but it
disappears if a minimally coherent discourse is created. We
argue that our results support the view that the binding
principles are innate and do not need to be acquired, but
children have problems with computing coreference options in
certain contexts (Reinhart 2004; 2006; 2011). Coherent
discourse allows children to accommodate pronouns with close
to adult-like success because in this case they do not
calculate local coreference possibilities for pronouns.
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Article
PeerReviewed
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text
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Rákosi, György and Tóth, Enikő (2016) The pronoun interpretation problem in child Hungarian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 63 (1). pp. 63-96. ISSN 1216-8076
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