Preschool children’s verbal image of the world: a cross-cultural Russian-Hungarian comparison based on word associations | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya – Tomsk State University Journal of Philology. 2021. № 72. DOI: 10.17223/19986645/72/5

Preschool children’s verbal image of the world: a cross-cultural Russian-Hungarian comparison based on word associations

This psycholinguistic-pedagogical interdisciplinary research investigates 4- to 5-year-old Russian and Hungarian preschool children’s linguistic image of the world. Applying the word association method, kindergarteners (N=100 in both countries) were asked to freely associate from 10 word-stimuli, then the results were contrasted. The research shed light on a similar perception of a family; of a friend; on the effects of globalization (Lego, Trudi, tablet); and on lacunas (devil and angel).

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association experiment, linguistic consciousness, early childhood, psycholinguistics, cross-cultural communication

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Lenart Istvan	Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University	istvan.lenart@1msmu.ru
Markovina Irina Yu.	Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University	markovina_i_yu@staff.sechenov.mail.ru
Endrody Orsol	Eotvos Lorand University	endrody.orsolya@ppk.elte.hu

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