The Effects of Animacy and Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Child Language

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Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-11-16 DOI:10.1353/jsl.2019.0003

M. Velnić

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Abstract:This study investigates how givenness and animacy influence object order (IO-DO vs. DO-IO) in ditransitive constructions in Croatian child language. We have conducted an elicitation task with 59 monolingual Croatian children (mean age = 4;4) and 36 adult controls (mean age = 21), in which the participants were asked to describe images depicting ditransitive actions. These actions differed with regard to givenness (DO given, or IO given) and animacy (IO animate, or both IO and DO animate). Both groups demonstrated an animacy effect, manifested as a significant increase of DO-IO productions when both objects were animate, compared to when only the IO was; adults presented DO-IO preference at ceiling level. Givenness had a statistically significant effect (p-value < 0.01) only in adults, but both groups were affected by the givenness of the DO. This paper supplies arguments to support previous indications that (1) DO-IO is the underlying order in Croatian ditransitives, and (2) that children do not have an IO-DO preference as has been reported by previous studies conducted on case-marking languages.

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克罗地亚儿童语言中的动性和Givenness对宾语顺序的影响

摘要：本研究探讨了给予性和动物性如何影响克罗地亚儿童语言双及物结构中的宾语顺序（IO-DO与DO-IO）。我们对59名克罗地亚单语儿童（平均年龄=4岁；4岁）和36名成人对照（平均年龄=21岁）进行了一项启发任务，要求参与者描述描述双及物动作的图像。这些动作在给定性（DO给定，或IO给定）和动画性（IO动画化，或IO和DO动画化）方面有所不同。两组都表现出了动画效果，表现为当两个对象都有动画时，与只有IO时相比，DO-IO的产量显著增加；成年人在天花板水平上表现出DO-IO偏好。Givenness仅在成人中具有统计学意义（p值<0.01），但两组都受到DO Givenness的影响。本文提供了论据来支持先前的迹象，即（1）DO-IO是克罗地亚双及物动词的基本顺序，以及（2）儿童没有IO-DO偏好，正如先前对格标记语言进行的研究所报道的那样。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.