The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”)
This study aims to investigate what kinds of syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic cues children use in order to determine the focus of a sentence, by examining how Turkish-acquiring preschoolers interpret sentences that contain the restrictive focus particle sadece ("only"). Our study cons...
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| description | This study aims to investigate what kinds of syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic cues children use in order to determine the focus of a sentence, by examining how Turkish-acquiring preschoolers interpret sentences that contain the restrictive focus particle sadece ("only"). Our study constitutes the first inquiry into the comprehension of focus particles in Turkish in the acquisition literature, and by utilizing unique syntactic properties of Turkish such as scrambling in designing the experimental materials, it maintains the view that the scope misassignment errors detected in previous studies on languages other than Turkish stem from a pragmatic bias that causes children to designate the object NP or the last NP of the sentence – which often coincides with the object NP – as the default focus, and not from instantiating a non-adult-like syntactic representation for sentences with focus particles. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7c482cb872d94648be32715fdb542c9d2025-01-02T12:20:40ZengDilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392017-07-0128112810.18492/dad.320483The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”)Simge Topaloğlu0Mine Nakipoğlu1Boğaziçi UniversityBoğaziçi UniversityThis study aims to investigate what kinds of syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic cues children use in order to determine the focus of a sentence, by examining how Turkish-acquiring preschoolers interpret sentences that contain the restrictive focus particle sadece ("only"). Our study constitutes the first inquiry into the comprehension of focus particles in Turkish in the acquisition literature, and by utilizing unique syntactic properties of Turkish such as scrambling in designing the experimental materials, it maintains the view that the scope misassignment errors detected in previous studies on languages other than Turkish stem from a pragmatic bias that causes children to designate the object NP or the last NP of the sentence – which often coincides with the object NP – as the default focus, and not from instantiating a non-adult-like syntactic representation for sentences with focus particles.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/320461acquisition of Turkishfocusrestrictive focus particlespragmatic developmenttruth value judgment task |
| spellingShingle | Simge Topaloğlu Mine Nakipoğlu The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”) Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi acquisition of Turkish focus restrictive focus particles pragmatic development truth value judgment task |
| title | The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”) |
| title_full | The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”) |
| title_fullStr | The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”) |
| title_short | The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”) |
| title_sort | acquisition of the turkish focus particle sadece only |
| topic | acquisition of Turkish focus restrictive focus particles pragmatic development truth value judgment task |
| url | http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/320461 |
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