Attributive constructions in schoolchildren's spontaneous utterances

• Authors: Laczko Maria
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The attribution of some specific quality is most often expressed by adjectives; but the same semantic content may also be expressed by various constructions like coordinate or subordinate phrases and various types of phraseological units. In this paper, the authoress discusses the way this semantic category is represented in 15- and 18-year-old secondary school students' spontaneous speech: what nominal and verbal phrases, set phrases, and idioms are used, how often and in what functions. The analysis is based on 'guided spontaneous speech'; in the resulting five-minute samples, constructions that related to the speaker's opinion on movies were analysed both in qualitative and quantitative terms. The results yielded further data on the mental lexicon, as well as on age-specific features of teenagers' spontaneous speech.

Keywords

EN

ERRORS IN SPEECH; MONOTONICITY OF SPEECH PRODUCTION; SCHOOLCHILDREN'S SPONTANEOUS SPEECH

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 132
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 326-340
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Laczko Maria

• Maria Laczko, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA079020