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Project code: 6-06-326


PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF THE ACQUISITION OF THE CROATIAN LANGUAGE


Main researcher: LJUBEŠIĆ, MARTA (26146)


Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 11/01/93. to 12/31/96.
Papers on project (total): 20
Institution name: Fakultet za defektologiju, Zagreb (13)
Department/Institute: Department of Logopedics Faculty of Defectology University of Zagreb
Address: Kušlanova 59a
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)1 233 80 22
Fax: 385 (0)1 22 99 50
E-mail: marta.ljubesic¦public.srce.hr
Summary: The investigation of the acquisition of any particular language is important because of scientific, cultural and practical reasons. Our research is motivated by both scientific reasons (description of psycholinguistic processes in acquisition), and practical reasons (diagnosis and therapy of disorders as well as stimulation of the development). There were hardly any systematic studies of that kind in Croatian. Design includes a combination of ideographic and nomothetic approach. Language development is followed up longitudinally. Four children are recorded 2 to 4 times monthly and their speech is transcribed by means of CHILDES system. The sample of children is homogeneous in terms of family background, parents education and language environment. The variables are: accustical features of vocals, accustical features of consonants, (the special emphasis is on a development of canonnical syllabes), suprasegmental features of child language, pre- and protomorphology, vocabulary, semantical overextensions, MLU and grammatical complexity of utterances. A communication inventory is applied within the nomothetic approach to study language development. The questions are answered by parents till the age of 36 months. This part of the Project should provide insights to acquisition of vocabulary and early language forms.

Keywords: acquisition of the Croatian language, developmental psycholinguistics, mean length of utterance - MLU, semantic overextensions, acoustic analysis, phonological development, metaphonology, premorphology, protomorphology, vocabulary development,

Research goals: 1. description of accoustic properties of children's vocalizations from birth to first phonems production and suprasegmental features of speech 2. analysis of the acquistion of grammatical structures and lexic in Croatian 3. crosslinguistic comparisons of pre- and protomorphology 4. definition of gestures that precede linguistic utterances 5. development of language norms for the Croatian language for children up to 36 months of age. 6. development of methods for language assesment and of diagnostic procedures in early language acquisition in Croatian

COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: Vor- und Fruehstadien der Morphologie im Erstspracherwerb
    Name of institution: Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Kommission fuer Linguistik und Kommunikationsforschung
    City: A-1030 - Wien, Austrija

  2. Name of project: The Acquisition of Pre- and Protomorphology
    Name of institution: Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft der Universitaet Wien
    City: A-1030 - Wien, Austrija

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Institut fuer Soziale Paediatrie und Jugendmedizin der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Muenchen, S.R. Njemačka

  2. Name of institution: Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft der Universitaet Wien
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: A-1030 - Wien, Austrija

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS


  1. Name: Prijevod i prva adaptacija "Mac Arthurove komunikacijske skale"
    Type of achievement: Other
    Authors: Melita Kovačević, Zrinka Babić, Blaženka Brozović

  2. Name: Prijevod i adaptacija KID skale
    Type of achievement: Other
    Authors: D. Blaži, B. Brozović, M. Ljubešić
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