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1. HODNOCENÍ PŘEDSTAVITELNOSTI, KONKRÉTNOSTI, SPECIFIČNOSTI, FAMILIARITY A VĚKU OSVOJENÍ ČESKÝCH SUBSTANTIV A SLOVES: VZTAHY A SOUVISLOSTI.

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KŘÍŽ, ADAM and SMOLÍK, FILIP

Abstract

Goals. The study aimed to collect a set of psycholinguistic norms for subjective properties of words, and describe the relations between these properties and the lexical decision times for the words. Sample and procedure. The set of words included 63 nouns and 35 verbs. Two questionnaires were created that included these words. One was an online questionnaire assessing the adult-rated age of acquisition (AoA). The main questionnaire was a paper questionnaire administered to the final-year high-school students (N=249, age 18-20). The students always rated one of the following properties: concreteness, imageability, specificity, and familiarity. In addition to these ratings, the frequencies of the words in corpora of spoken and written Czech were used, and lexical decision latencies measured. Hypotheses. One hypothesis was that the lexical decision times will be related to the word ratings: lower AoA, and higher imageability/ concreteness/specificity/familiarity, should be related to faster decision times. Statistical analyses. The data were evaluated using the Pearson correlation coefficient, the partial correlation coefficient, and linear regression. Results. The data from Czech confirmed the findings from other languages: nouns show higher imageability than verbs, imageability and concreteness are highly correlated, familiarity is related to spoken frequency more closely than to written frequency. Regression models showed that all subjective norms have statistically significant relation with the lexical decision times, above and beyond frequency and word length. Limitations. The principal limitation for further generalizations is the small sample of words for which ratings were obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015

2. Effects of Word Imageability on the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphology in Czech Children

Author

Kříž, Adam, Smolík, Filip, and Chromý, Jan

Subjects
osvojování slovních tvarů, third person in present tense, Czech, představitelnost, acquisition of word forms, množné číslo substantiv, plural of nouns, druhá osoba prézentu, čeština, třetí osoba prézentu, minulé příčestí, second person in present tense, age of acquisition, past tense of verbs, morfologie, morphology, věk osvojení, imageability
Abstract

(in English): In many studies there was demonstrated that word's imageability - the ability of a word to produce a mental image of it's referent - affects the processing of its inflection (e.g. Prado - Ullman, 2009), its acquisition (e.g. McDonough et al., 2011) and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes (Smolík, in press). This thesis builds on the Smolík's paper, and its goal is to test whether the imageability of a word's stem influences the acquisition of its inflections in Czech children. Word imageability ratings and ratings of other variables that were assumed to affect the process of the acquisition of word inflections, were collected, then questionnaires were distributed to parents to examine how the forms of chosen words are acquired by children. The focus was on the acquisition of nominative plural of nouns, present tense in second person and past tense of verbs. The results show that the imageability significantly predicts the age of acquisition of the nominative in singular and all observed forms of verbs. The absence of the imegability effect on the acquisition of nominative in plural may be due to the overall high imageability and thus reduced variability of ratings in nouns in our dataset. Two possible explanations of the imageability effect on the acqusition of morphological...

Published
2013

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