Comprehension of Negation in Child and Adult Speakers of Spanish and German (C06)

西班牙语和德语儿童和成人对否定的理解（C06）

• 批准号: 537324033
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Psycholinguistik und Didaktik der deutschen Sprache
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research Centres
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/537324033?language=en
• 关键词: Comprehension; Negation; Child; Adult; Speakers

Our project investigates the assumption that cross-linguistic differences in the morphosyntactic expression of negation can lead to differences in how negation is processed and acquired in typologically different languages. Specifically, we compare negation in German and Spanish: in Spanish, the surface position of the negator is early in the sentence, before the finite verb. In German, the negator appears late and after the finite verb. Moreover, sentential negation in Spanish is restricted to one, preverbal, position, whereas the sentential negator in German may appear in different surface positions. We examine whether these cross-linguistic differences affect adult comprehension and child acquisition.

我们的项目调查的假设，跨语言的差异，在形态句法表达的否定可能会导致不同的否定是如何处理和收购的类型不同的语言。具体来说，我们比较了德语和西班牙语中的否定：在西班牙语中，否定词的表面位置在句子的早期，在限定动词之前。在德语中，否定词出现在较晚且在限定动词之后。此外，西班牙语的间接否定仅限于一个动词前的位置，而德语的间接否定可能出现在不同的表面位置。我们研究这些跨语言的差异是否会影响成人的理解和儿童的习得。