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Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics
2015. urn:nbn:hr:186:089692
Šopar, Igor
University of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Šopar, I. (2015). Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics (Master's thesis). Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:089692

Šopar, Igor. "Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics." Master's thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:089692

Šopar, Igor. "Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics." Master's thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:089692

Šopar, I. (2015). 'Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics', Master's thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 23 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:089692

Šopar I. Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics [Master's thesis]. Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2015 [cited 2025 January 23] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:089692

I. Šopar, "Interpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics", Master's thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, 2015. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:089692

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TitleInterpretation of Croatian Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Inter-Sentential Contexts Disambiguated by Pragmatics
AuthorIgor Šopar
MentorTihana Kraš (mentor)
Committee memberDorjana Širola (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberTihana Kraš (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberBranka Drljača Margić (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Rijeka
Defense date and country2015-07-17, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This thesis examines the monolingual Croatian speaker strategies concerning null and overt subject pronoun interpretation in inter-sentential contexts disambiguated by pragmatics. It reports the findings of an experimental study, which involved child and adult participants, and which investigated whether the PAS, the pronoun interpretation strategy proposed by Maria Carminati for the Italian language, holds in inter-sentential contexts in Croatian language. The participants were presented with a set of experimental items, each of which comprised two sentences. The first sentence contained two noun phrases in the role of the subject and the object. The second sentence contained a null or an overt pronoun, and was biased towards either the subject or the object of the previous sentence as the antecedent of the pronoun. The participants were asked to determine how much sense the second sentence makes in relation to the first one on a seven-point grading scale. The results show that Croatian adult speakers tend to associate the null pronoun with the subject antecedent and the overt pronoun with the object antecedent in inter-sentential contexts disambiguated by pragmatics. Croatian children aged 13-15 have shown the same tendencies concerning the null pronoun interpretation, but associated the overt pronoun equally with the subject and the object i.e. have not shown adult-like behavior in terms of overt pronoun interpretation in inter-sentential contexts disambiguated by pragmatics.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:186:089692
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teaching Track
Course: Teaching Track
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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