The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach
| Autor: | Berna A. Uzundag, Aylin C. Küntay |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Arslan Uzundağ, Berna, Küntay, Aylin C. |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Linguistics and Language Turkey Turkish Object (grammar) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology macromolecular substances Corpus Semantics Language Development Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics Noun Subject (grammar) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Learning Speech Longitudinal Studies Child General Psychology Language Communication Infant Linguistics Language acquisition language.human_language Cross-Sectional Studies Child Preschool Cross-linguistic approach language Female Affect (linguistics) Psychology Relative clauses Child Language Typological comparisons Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language. 46:1142-1168 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s030500091900045x |
| Popis: | Using a cross-linguistic approach, we investigated Turkish-speaking children's acquisition and use of relative clauses (RCs) by examining longitudinal child–caregiver interactions and cross-sectional peer conversations. Longitudinal data were collected from 8 children between the ages of 8 and 36 months. Peer conversational corpus came from 78 children aged between 43 and 64 months. Children produced RCs later than in English (Diessel, 2004) and Mandarin (Chen & Shirai, 2015), and demonstrated increasing semantic and structural complexity with age. Despite the morphosyntactic difficulty of object RCs, and prior experimental findings showing a subject RC advantage, preschool-aged children produced object RCs, which were highly frequent in child-directed speech, as frequently as subject RCs. Object RCs in spontaneous speech were semantically less demanding (with pronominal subjects and inanimate head nouns) than the stimuli used in prior experiments. Results suggest that multiple factors such as input frequency and morphosyntactic and semantic difficulty affect the acquisition patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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