Acquisition of Turkish in childhood, The
Children Communicative competence in children Language acquisition Language awareness in children Turkish language
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2017
EISBN 9789027266200
The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Recent advances and the acquisition of Turkish; 2. Previous studies on child Turkish; 2.1 Development of morphosyntax and word order; 2.2 Development of phonology, vowel harmony and word segmentation; 2.3 Literacy development; 2.4 Language disorders in Turkish; 2.5 Key issues in childhood bilingualism; 3. The contributions in this volume; 4. Summary; Acknowledgements; References; Acquisition/processing of morphology, syntax and semantics.
3. Online findings from children's interpretation in head-final languages4. What do these findings imply about the grammar?; 4.1 Why CCG as a competence grammar?; 4.2 Interpretation of the findings in Özge et al. (2015) and Özge et al. (2013); 5. Conclusion; References; Acquisition of scope relations by Turkish-English bilingual children; 1. Introduction; 2. The disjunction parameter; 2.1 Disjunction in logic and in language; 2.2 The implicature of exclusivity; 2.3 Downward entailment; 2.4 Scope ambiguities; 2.5 The disjunction parameter; 3. Temporal operators.
3.1.3 Summary of results of MLE Models 1 and 24. Discussion; 5. Conclusion and outlook; Acknowledgements; References; Turkish children's early vocabulary; 1. Introduction; 2. Assessing lexical diversity; 2.1 Computing type-to-token ratio (TTR); 2.2 Common methods of measuring lexical diversity; 2.3 Early lexical acquisition: The view from Turkish; 3. The current study; 3.1 Participants and data; 3.2 Transcription and coding procedures; 3.3 Children's lexicon sizes and measuring TTR across ages; 3.3.1 Lexicon size: Descriptive statistics; 3.3.2 TTRs with respect to age.
3.4 Lexical diversity with respect to age: Herdan's Log TTR4. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Acquisition of canonical and non-canonical word orders in L1 Turkish; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic and pragmatic development in the acquisition of L1 word order; 3. Acquisition of Turkish word order; 4. Word order in Turkish; 5. Pragmatic considerations in Turkish; 6. The study; 7. Results and discussion; 8. Conclusion; References; What does online parsing in Turkish-speaking children reveal about grammar?; 1. Introduction; 2. Is child parsing incremental and predictive?
Sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony1. Introduction; 1.1 Vowels and vowel harmony in Turkish; 1.2 Studies on the acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish; 1.3 Studies in other languages; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Research aim, hypotheses, and design; 2.3 Materials; 2.3.1 Auditory stimuli; 2.4 General and experimental procedure; 2.5 Coding criteria; 2.6 Validation study with adult native speakers of Turkish; 3. Results; 3.1 Mixed Linear Effect Model (MLE) analyses6; 3.1.1 MLE Model-1: all variables included; 3.1.2 MLE Model-2: BF and RU harmony separately.
3. Online findings from children's interpretation in head-final languages4. What do these findings imply about the grammar?; 4.1 Why CCG as a competence grammar?; 4.2 Interpretation of the findings in Özge et al. (2015) and Özge et al. (2013); 5. Conclusion; References; Acquisition of scope relations by Turkish-English bilingual children; 1. Introduction; 2. The disjunction parameter; 2.1 Disjunction in logic and in language; 2.2 The implicature of exclusivity; 2.3 Downward entailment; 2.4 Scope ambiguities; 2.5 The disjunction parameter; 3. Temporal operators.
3.1.3 Summary of results of MLE Models 1 and 24. Discussion; 5. Conclusion and outlook; Acknowledgements; References; Turkish children's early vocabulary; 1. Introduction; 2. Assessing lexical diversity; 2.1 Computing type-to-token ratio (TTR); 2.2 Common methods of measuring lexical diversity; 2.3 Early lexical acquisition: The view from Turkish; 3. The current study; 3.1 Participants and data; 3.2 Transcription and coding procedures; 3.3 Children's lexicon sizes and measuring TTR across ages; 3.3.1 Lexicon size: Descriptive statistics; 3.3.2 TTRs with respect to age.
3.4 Lexical diversity with respect to age: Herdan's Log TTR4. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Acquisition of canonical and non-canonical word orders in L1 Turkish; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic and pragmatic development in the acquisition of L1 word order; 3. Acquisition of Turkish word order; 4. Word order in Turkish; 5. Pragmatic considerations in Turkish; 6. The study; 7. Results and discussion; 8. Conclusion; References; What does online parsing in Turkish-speaking children reveal about grammar?; 1. Introduction; 2. Is child parsing incremental and predictive?
Sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony1. Introduction; 1.1 Vowels and vowel harmony in Turkish; 1.2 Studies on the acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish; 1.3 Studies in other languages; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Research aim, hypotheses, and design; 2.3 Materials; 2.3.1 Auditory stimuli; 2.4 General and experimental procedure; 2.5 Coding criteria; 2.6 Validation study with adult native speakers of Turkish; 3. Results; 3.1 Mixed Linear Effect Model (MLE) analyses6; 3.1.1 MLE Model-1: all variables included; 3.1.2 MLE Model-2: BF and RU harmony separately.
