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Strukturní ikonicita a posesivní konstrukce: Výzkum v osvojování umělého jazyka / Structural Iconicity and Possessive Constructions: Explorations in Artificial Language Learning

This thesis is concerned with structural iconicity and its effects on possessive classification. The Iconicity-of-distance hypothesis argues that the linguistic distance between a possessor and a possessum reflects the conceptual distance, and is therefore smaller in inalienable possession. The role of distance iconicity in language processing was tested using the artificial language learning paradigm. An experiment was designed to investigate whether speakers of Czech will learn an iconically structured grammar better. The experiment conducted with 40 participants did not show significant differences between the two experimental groups. However, the evidence is inconlusive and the data suggest that structural iconicity could influence processing. The results also suggest that speaker of Czech are able to use alienability as a category of language.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:337135
Date January 2014
CreatorsLáznička, Michal
ContributorsFriedová, Mirjam, Chromý, Jan
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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