Language and cognitive development

Vocabulary and morphological patterns in Hungarian children with Willimas Syndrome:A preliminary report

Williams Syndrome, (WMS) a rare neurogenetic disorder has been in the forefront of research in cognitive psychology for the last ten years.  Tovább

Early morphology of spatial expressions in Hungarian children: A childes study.

The study of early use of spatial expressions has been quite central in studying the language and cognition issues crosslinguistically. Tovább

Modularity and pragmatics

The modular approach to language in its 30 year carreer had alternating and revialing views regarding the place of pragmatics. Tovább

The language of space in Hungarian

Hungarian played an interesting role in the formation of early theories about the relationships of cognition and language. Melania Mikes (1967) has showed in her studies of Serbian-Hungarian bilingual children that the use of locative suffixes appeared earlier in the Hungarian than in the Serbian speech of the same children of ages 2-3. Tovább

Processing of multimorphenic words in Hungarian

Hungarian provides good testing grounds to study some of the basic issues in lexical access and morphological decomposition in processing and representation. Tovább

Morphological patterns in Hungarian children with Williams Syndrome (WMS) and the rule debates

Williams Syndrome, (WMS) a rare neurogenetic disorder has been in the forefront of research in cognitive psychology for the last ten years. Studies of grammartical development of 14 Hungariabn children with WMS are presented. Tovább

Language in Hungarian children with Williams Syndrome

In this chapter, we are going to present 4 studies all of which were designed to tap different aspects of the issue of atypical organization in the WS mental lexicon and grammar. Tovább

The Development of sentence interpretation in Hungarian

The Hungarian language provides a varierty of interesting grammatical features which can be exploited in studies of sentence processing. Tovább

Residual Normality and the issue of language profiles in Williams syndrome

One of the debated issues regarding Residual Normality is frequency sensitivity in Williams syndrome. We present some data on frequency sensitivity in Hungarian WS subjects. Tovább