Таълим ва инновацион тадқиқотлар Issue 1 (2020)
THE ROLE OF THEMENTAL STATE VERBS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORY OF MIND IN BILINGUAL ROMA CHILDREN
Кючуков, Христо
Abstract
The following article deals with the analysis of the process of acquisition of mentalstate verbs in Romani and in Bulgarian simultaneously by bilingual Roma children. Two Romachildren from Bulgaria (1 boy and 1 girl) aged 1; 0 – 3; 0 years were audiorecorded longitudinally intheir natural home environment. According to M. Taumoepeau and T. Ruffman (2006), the mental state verbs can be grouped in different categories, showing different states: mental states, physical states,emotions, perception and cognition. The acquired verbs are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively.The results show that the the boy uses 100 % Romani mental state verbs: very high number of verbsare related to (1) mental states, e. g.: mangav (want), dehav (love), arakhav (care about), džanav(know); (2) emotions: xavxoli (angry), khanile (feeling bad); (3) physical state, e. g.: dukhal (hurt),rovav (cry); (4) sense, such as: dikh (look). The girl uses 89 % mental state verbs in Romani and19 % in Bulgarian language. The learned verbs by her are related to mental state from Romani:mangav (want), džanav (know), darav (be afraid) and from Bulgarian: obicham (love), znam (know),iskam (want). The other verbs from the field of emotions, physical state and sense are from Romani.Mental state verbs are important in the cognitive development of the children because they predict theunderstanding of the theory of mind.
Ромабилингвизмглаголы ментального состояниятеория созанияRomabilingualismmental state verbstheory of mind
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