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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Hungarian, a language with case marking and free word order, offers unique insights into sentence processing.
  • Relative clauses present processing challenges across languages.
  • Understanding sentence comprehension in typologically diverse languages is crucial for linguistic theories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of structural factors on relative clause comprehension in Hungarian children.
  • To examine the role of working memory capacity in sentence processing.
  • To test the crosslinguistic validity of sentence processing theories.

Main Methods:

  • An act-out task was administered to 43 typically developing children aged 4-11.
  • Participants were divided into two age groups to assess developmental differences.
  • Comprehension of various word order patterns and head-function relations was evaluated.

Main Results:

  • Comprehension difficulties were observed with interrupted main clauses, increased verb-argument distance, accusative relative pronouns, and SO head-function relations.
  • These structural factors independently affected comprehension difficulty.
  • Working memory capacity was found to mediate the effects of structural complexity on sentence comprehension.

Conclusions:

  • Structural properties of sentences significantly influence comprehension difficulty in Hungarian.
  • Working memory limitations are a key factor in processing complex sentence structures.
  • Findings support processing-based accounts of sentence comprehension, even in languages distinct from English.