In this article we describe our study and the initial experiments conducted in daycares where we explore the influence of the presence of grammatical dual in the language of the environment on the acquisition of number words. We were invited to write this article as the editor of the journal Mathematics in School thought the topic of our research could be of interest to the high school and elementary school teachers of Mathematics (due to the obvious connection between mathematics and the acquisition of number). The article describes the tasks used and gives a superficial presentation of the main research questions and some results. This article is relevant also from the point of presenting our research to the general public as it is in a way a popular science article.
F.35 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 2852347Members of the program group gave 5 invited lecture in the year 2013. Concretely, they gave invited seminars/colloquia at the following Universities: University of Zagreb (27. 5. 2013), Masaryk University in Brno (28. 6. 2013), University of Niš (27. 9. 2013), University of Udine (14.11. 2013), University of Sofia (25.11.2013)
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
We set to determine whether success in segmenting L-grammar sequences is due to a particular parsing strategy aimed at detecting constituents in the linear stream. This strategy draws on the self-similar property of context-free L-grammars. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a dual task experiment whereby groups of adult participants performed a visual l(exical) d(ecision) task focusing their attention thereon, while passively listening to a synthesized sequence of syllables generated either by Fibonacci or Morse-Thue L-grammar or a random sequence in the headphones. A separate control group performed the LD task alone (total N=40). We found that 1)listening to L-grammar sequences leads to significant increase of r(esponse) t(imes) on the LD task, as opposed to the random sequence; 2)there were no significant differences in RTs between the two L-grammar conditions. These results support the hypothesis and further suggest that constituent detection is performed outside the focus of attention and thus largely an automatic process.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2866939The study surveys aspects of the organization of descriptive and prescriptive lexicography in Europe. The rich variation found in the organization of this area of language policy suggests that invoking a specific model from elsewhere in deciding on the best-fit model for this area in Slovenia is misplaced. Specific models result from specific language-policy situations, so that discussion of specific models without detailed knowledge of the context in which they arose makes little sense.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 3287291Members of the program group have acted as article and abstract reviewers for scientific journals Journal of Slavic Linguistics (založba Slavica) – 3 times, Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics (Elsevier) – 3 times, Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics (de Gruyter Mouton), Linguistic Variation (John Benjamins), Natural Language Semantics, and Studies in Polish Linguistics (Jagiellonian University Press) and scientific conferences SinFonija VI (Niš) – 3 reviewers, Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 10 (Leipzig) – 2 reviewers, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 22 (Hamilton, Canada) – 3 reviewers, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 23, Sinn und Bedeutung 18, and European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2013 (Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf).
C.07 Other editorial board