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Croatian-Hungarian Mental Lexicon

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, I will discuss the mental lexicons and speech productions of some representatives of the different Croatian communities living in Hungary. The data are gained from psycholinguistic experiments such as a word association test, a colour naming test, a picture naming test and finally the 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.

mental lexicon; speech production; word association test; Croatian

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