Thematic Role Assignment in the L1 Acquisition of Tagalog: Use of Word Order and Morphosyntactic Markers

Autor/inn/en	Garcia, Rowena; Roeser, Jens; Höhle, Barbara
Titel	Thematic Role Assignment in the L1 Acquisition of Tagalog: Use of Word Order and Morphosyntactic Markers
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 26 (2019) 3, S.235-261 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Garcia, Rowena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2018.1525613
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Tagalog; Cues; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Language Processing; Speech Communication; Accuracy; Language Classification; Prediction; Linguistic Theory; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Sentence Structure; Listening Comprehension; Adults; Young Children; Age Differences; Nouns; Phrase Structure; Difficulty Level; Computational Linguistics; Role; Verbs; Foreign Countries; Philippines (Manila) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Stichwort; Morphology; Morphologie; Sprachverarbeitung; Sprachtypologie; Vorhersage; Linguistische Theorie; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Hörverständnis; Frühe Kindheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Phrasenstruktur; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Rollen; Ausland
Abstract	It is a common finding across languages that young children have problems in understanding patient-initial sentences. We used Tagalog, a verb-initial language with a reliable voice-marking system and highly frequent patient voice constructions, to test the predictions of several accounts that have been proposed to explain this difficulty: the frequency account, the Competition Model, and the incremental processing account. Study 1 presents an analysis of Tagalog child-directed speech, which showed that the dominant argument order is agent-before-patient and that morphosyntactic markers are highly valid cues to thematic role assignment. In Study 2, we used a combined self-paced listening and picture verification task to test how Tagalog-speaking adults and 5- and 7-year-old children process reversible transitive sentences. Results showed that adults performed well in all conditions, while children's accuracy and listening times for the first noun phrase indicated more difficulty in interpreting patient-initial sentences in the agent voice compared to the patient voice. The patient voice advantage is partly explained by both the frequency account and incremental processing account. (As Provided).
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