Title :

How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe

Author(s) :

Sauerland, Uli [Auteur]
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] [ZAS]
Grohmann, Kleanthes K. [Auteur]

Guasti, Maria Teresa [Auteur]

Anđelković, Darinka [Auteur]
University of Belgrade [Belgrade]
Argus, Reili [Auteur]
Tallinn University
Armon-Lotem, Sharon [Auteur]
Bar-Ilan University [Israël]
Arosio, Fabrizio [Auteur]

Avram, Larisa [Auteur]

Costa, João [Auteur]

Dabašinskienė, Ineta [Auteur]
Institute of lithuanian language
de López, Kristine [Auteur]
Aalborg University [Denmark] [AAU]
Gatt, Daniela [Auteur]
Institute of lithuanian language
Grech, Helen [Auteur]
Mater Dei Hospital [Malta]
Haman, Ewa [Auteur]
University of Warsaw [UW]
van Hout, Angeliek [Auteur]
University of Groningen [Groningen]
Hrzica, Gordana [Auteur]
University of Zagreb
Kainhofer, Judith [Auteur]
Universität Salzburg
Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, Laura [Auteur]
Institute of lithuanian language
Kunnari, Sari [Auteur]
University of Oulu [Finland] = Oulun yliopisto [Suomi] = Université d'Oulu [Finlande]
Kovačević, Melita [Auteur]
University of Zagreb
Kuvac Kraljević, Jelena [Auteur]
University of Zagreb
Lipowska, Katarzyna [Auteur]
University of Warsaw [UW]
Mejias, Sandrine [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Popović, Maša [Auteur]
University of Belgrade [Belgrade]
Ruzaite, Jurate [Auteur]
Institute of lithuanian language
Savić, Maja [Auteur]
University of Oklahoma [OU]
Sevcenco, Anca [Auteur]
University of Bucharest [UniBuc]
Varlokosta, Spyridoula [Auteur]

Varnava, Marina [Auteur]

Yatsushiro, Kazuko [Auteur]
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] [ZAS]

Journal title :

First Language

Abbreviated title :

First Language

Volume number :

36

Pages :

169-202

Publication date :

2016-06-01

ISSN :

0142-7237

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating ...
Show more >The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors on question formation: (a) whether the question contains a simple interrogative word like ‘who’ or a complex one like ‘which princess’, and (b) whether the question word was related to the sentential subject or object position of the verb. The findings show that there is considerable variation among languages, but the two factors mentioned consistently affect children’s performance. The cross-linguistic variation shows that three linguistic factors facilitate children’s understanding of questions: having overt case morphology, having a single lexical item for both ‘who’ and ‘which’, and the use of synthetic verbal forms.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Langage

Submission date :

2019-02-13T14:48:21Z
2020-02-13T08:17:33Z
2020-10-26T13:50:19Z