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The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. urn:nbn:hr:131:987095
Grgić, Leona
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Grgić, L. (2021). The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:987095

Grgić, Leona. "The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:987095

Grgić, Leona. "The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:987095

Grgić, L. (2021). 'The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 19 November 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:987095

Grgić L. The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2021 [cited 2024 November 19] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:987095

L. Grgić, "The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2021. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:987095

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TitleThe Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Croatian: A Case Study
Title (croatian)Usvajanje pitanja u engleskom i hrvatskom jeziku: studija slučaja
AuthorLeona Grgić
MentorIrena Zovko Dinković (mentor)
Committee memberIvana Bašić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberMarina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2021-02-01, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This case study followed the process of first language acquisition of a child learning the Croatian language. A Croatian girl named Franka was recorded in her home, by her parents, several times per month, from the age of two until the age of three years old. The goal of the study was to collect recordings of the child’s spontaneous speech in order to examine more closely the development of interrogative forms in children learning Croatian, as compared to children learning English as their first language. The paper first provides a comparison between the ways interrogative forms are constructed in English and Croatian. It gives an overview of previous findings on question acquisition, focusing more narrowly on the acquisition of wh-questions. What was gathered from the acquired data is then compared to a study of communicative functions in typically developing Croatian children, as well as to general information on question acquisition found in readers and studies on language development, which were mainly grounded on data collected from children learning English. Finally, it is shown that the results from the case study point to similarities as well as some significant differences in the processes of question acquisition between children acquiring Croatian in comparison to children acquiring English as their first language.
Keywords
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:987095
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL
Course: Linguistics
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resourceText
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