Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences

Kail, Michèle; Diakogiorgi, Kleopatra

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“…For example, the importance of word order for the on-line processing of morphological cues was underscored in a previous research done with Greek adults and children over 6; 0. In a task which required the interpretation of sentences with varied word order (NVN, NNV, VNN) and case morphology, Kail & Diakogiorgi (1994) found that the decision times for agent assignment were shorter in NNV sentences where the initial information on nouns concerned the most valid cue in Greek, case morphology. Analogous results were recently reported in Italian (Devescovi D'Amico & Gentile, 1999).…”

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On-line grammaticality judgments in French children and adults: a crosslinguistic perspective

Kail

2004

J. Child Lang.

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This study examined the on-line processing of French sentences in a grammaticality judgment experiment. Three age groups of French children (mean age: 6;8, 8;6 and 10;10 years) and a group of adults were asked to detect grammatical violations as quickly as possible. Three factors were studied: the violation type: agreement violations (number and gender) vs. word order violations; the violation position: early vs. late in the sentence; the target type of the violations: intra vs. interphrasal. An example of an early interphrasal verbal agreement violation follows: ‘Chaque semaine la voisine remplissent le frigo après avoir fait les courses au marché’ (Every week the neighbour fill the fridge after shopping at the market). The main developmental results were the following: not surprisingly, children were always slower than adults in the detection of grammatical violations. At each age level, morphological violations were more rapidly detected than word order violations. Each age group was faster at judging sentences with later occurring violations and the position effect was especially strong in the youngest groups. Finally, intraphrasal violations were more rapidly detected than interphrasal ones, this effect being observed only in the oldest groups (i.e. 10;10 years and adults). The results were compared to previous on-line data obtained in modern Greek (Kail & Diakogiorgi, 1998) showing strong similarities, even though Greek is a very rich morphological language. These results are discussed within the framework of the Competition Model, outlining the necessity to incorporate new processing constraints into the model.

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On-line grammaticality judgments in French children and adults: a crosslinguistic perspective

Kail

2004

J. Child Lang.

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“…Such input processing strategies are assumed to underlie native speaker use of language but are not principles of competence grammar and thus not sufficient for theta-role assignment. Experimental evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the surface form of the language provides specific cues to the parser is provided by on line sentence interpretation experiments, which show that Greek speakers rely more on the morphological contrast cue, i.e., marked case, than both animacy contrast and word order cue (Kail & Diakogiorgi, 1994). In English, on the other hand, the word order SVO was found to be a strict and highly valid cue to sentence interpretation (Bates et al, 1984).…”

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Comprehension of Reversible Relative Clauses in Specifically Language Impaired and Normally Developing Greek Children

Stavrakaki

2001

Brain and Language

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“…Holton et al 2003: 426). In sentences with neutral intonation, such as those presented at the beginning of discourse (Holton et al 2003: 427), the SVO and the VSO word-orders are considered as statistically dominant (Kail & Diakogiorgi 1994). However, it is not the case that the variations of word-order are pragmatically equivalent (Tzanidaki 1995).…”

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The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek

Karaminis¹,

Thomas

2015

Specific Language Impairment

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We present a computational modelling approach to the study of SLI in two languages with different typological characteristics, namely English and Modern Greek. Our modelling approach was based on the development of three neural network (connectionist) architectures, each assumed to underlie the acquisition of a core domain of language (inflectional morphology, syntax comprehension, and syntax production). The architectures were exposed to artificial linguistic environments reflecting the characteristics of their target domains in English and Greek. Computational simulations also considered conditions of atypical learning constraints, corresponding to different theoretical proposals for the type of deficit underlying SLI. The simulation results, combined with some shared properties of the three models, point to a unified explanation of the impairment under the connectionist framework.

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Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences

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On-line grammaticality judgments in French children and adults: a crosslinguistic perspective

On-line grammaticality judgments in French children and adults: a crosslinguistic perspective

Comprehension of Reversible Relative Clauses in Specifically Language Impaired and Normally Developing Greek Children

The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek

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