Naslov
Case Acquisition in Croatian as Second Language: a Behavioural and Electrophysiological Investigation

Autori
Dobravac, Gordana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Izvornik
Third Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-3) / - , 2008, 6-6

Skup
Third Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-3)

Mjesto i datum
Sjedinjene Američke Države, 10.06.2008. - 12.06.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
Case acquisition, Croatian L2, reaction time, ERP

Sažetak
The topic of this study is to assess if and to which extent speakers of one language are able to acquire a grammatical structure that is not present in their native language. Namely, the focus of this study is Slavic case acquisition in native English (L1) speakers who are learning Croatian as second language (L2). The participants’ progress was followed longitudinally by testing them twice, at the beginning and end of their Croatian course and their performance was compared to a control group of native Croatian speakers. The participants were asked to respond to visually-presented Croatian sentences viewed on a computer screen word by word. All sentences were short three-word sentences consisting of a simple noun-verb-noun structure (e.g. Pas gleda loptu. – The dog is watching a ball.). Participants were asked to state who is the doer of the action by pressing a button. Reaction time and accuracy of responses were monitored, and at the same time on- going electro-encephalographic (EEG) activity was recorded to provide information about changes in participants’ brain activity during task performance to assess the online processes involved in language processing.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Kognitivna znanost (prirodne, tehničke, biomedicina i zdravstvo, društvene i humanističke znanosti)

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