TY - JOUR
T1 - A developmental study of the role of word order in comprehending Hebrew
AU - Frankel, Daniel G.
AU - Amir, Marianne
AU - Frenkel, Etha
AU - Arbel, Tali
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Center for Human Development of the Hebrew University for financial assistance. We would also like to thank Debbie Freiberg for her help in collecting data. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation to Professors F. D. Horowitz, M. P. Maratsos, and I. M. Schlesinger for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Requests for reprints should be sent to Daniel G. Frankel, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
PY - 1980/1/1
Y1 - 1980/1/1
N2 - Monolingual Hebrew-speaking subjects, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11 years old, as well as adults, were asked to interpret utterances consisting of two nouns and a verb. Some utterances included only word order cues while others included direct object marker and subject-verb gender agreement cues. Even though Hebrew word order is relatively free, when subjects used word order as an interpretive cue they generally assigned sentence relations according to the dominant SVO order of modern Hebrew. This trend was less strong for the interpretations of NNV utterances than of NVN and VNN utterances. There was no evidence of a developmental sequence for word order strategies. In addition, there was no evidence that word order, for any age group, was necessarily a dominant cue for assigning sentence relations when other linguistic information was available.
AB - Monolingual Hebrew-speaking subjects, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11 years old, as well as adults, were asked to interpret utterances consisting of two nouns and a verb. Some utterances included only word order cues while others included direct object marker and subject-verb gender agreement cues. Even though Hebrew word order is relatively free, when subjects used word order as an interpretive cue they generally assigned sentence relations according to the dominant SVO order of modern Hebrew. This trend was less strong for the interpretations of NNV utterances than of NVN and VNN utterances. There was no evidence of a developmental sequence for word order strategies. In addition, there was no evidence that word order, for any age group, was necessarily a dominant cue for assigning sentence relations when other linguistic information was available.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-0965(80)90088-0
DO - 10.1016/0022-0965(80)90088-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 7354266
AN - SCOPUS:0018980021
SN - 0022-0965
VL - 29
SP - 23
EP - 35
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
IS - 1
ER -