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Production of complex sentences: Studies across languages and development.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Production of complex sentences: Studies across languages and development./
Author:	Montag, Jessica L.
Description:	157 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-12B(E).
Subject:	Psychology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3589739
ISBN:	9781303288036

Production of complex sentences: Studies across languages and development.
Montag, Jessica L.

Production of complex sentences: Studies across languages and development. - 157 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2013.

This dissertation investigates structure choice of complex sentences across three languages and across development. The goal of this work was to identify factors that motivate production choices and what these factors suggest about the knowledge and processes that underlie sentence production. In three studies, participants saw scenes depicting people acting on other people and inanimate objects. They answered questions about the entities that were acted upon, which elicited either active object relative ("the toy/man that the girl is hugging") or passive relative ("the toy/man that is being hugged by the girl") utterances. In Chapter 1, I investigated structure choices made by English speakers as a function of the visual environment. Speakers almost always produced passive utterances when describing animate entities, and produced a mix of object and passive relatives when describing inanimate entities. Further, less visually salient inanimate entities tended to more often be described with passives. This is interpreted as evidence of the linguistic and visual context affecting production choices. In Chapter 2, I investigated differences in structure choice by speakers of English, Japanese and Korean. All speakers produced more passive utterances when describing animate entities, but the absolute rates of passives varied across languages. Crucially, rates of passives in main clauses were a better predictor of the rate of passives in relative clauses than was language typology. Finally, In Chapter 3, I investigated differences in structure choice of eight-year-old children, twelve-year-old children and adults. Two corpus analyses showed that passive relatives are far more common in children's literature than in child-directed speech. While all age groups produced more passive utterances when describing animate entities, overall rates of passives increased with age. Consistent with the results of the corpus analyses, increased text exposure in eight-year-old children and adults was associated with a greater proportion of passive utterances. These studies suggest a number of factors that affect production choices. Specifically, these studies provide evidence that constraints on the speaker affect production choices, and when possible, speakers learn to use the flexibility afforded by language to make the production process easier.

ISBN: 9781303288036Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018034
Psychology, General.

Production of complex sentences: Studies across languages and development.
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