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Psycholingvistika a čeština: některá slibná témata
Psycholinguistics and Czech: some promising topics

Author(s): Filip Smolík
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: grammar acquisition; information structure; morphological priming; psycholinguistics; sentence processing; word identification

Summary/Abstract: Psycholinguistic research has not received much attention in the Czech linguistic community. However, psycholinguistic methods could contribute to research in areas that have been traditionally strong in Czech linguistics, such as the study of information structure (topic-focus articulation). Specific properties of Czech, such as its rich morphological system with many homonymous affixes, $also provide interesting opportunities for research. The article demonstrates some methods used in research on word identification in adults and sentence processing in adults and children. It shows how these methods could be employed to provide theoretically relevant and new data about Czech.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 240-251
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech