On the (Non)-Use of Plural Non-Head Nouns in Turkish Nominal Compounding
(Psycho)linguistic studies conducted in various languages have shown that participants refrain from using regular plural nouns as non-head nouns within nominal compounds but do make use of singular as well as plural irregular nouns as non-heads. According to proponents of the “Words- and-Rule...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)
2009-07-01
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| Series: | Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/224695 |
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| Summary: | (Psycho)linguistic studies conducted in various languages have
shown that participants refrain from using regular plural nouns as non-head
nouns within nominal compounds but do make use of singular as well as
plural irregular nouns as non-heads. According to proponents of the “Words-
and-Rules” theory, this finding is an unambiguous reflection of the regular-
irregular distinction that they presume and clear evidence for the mental
model that they support. Since irregular nouns do not exist in Turkish, the
language constitutes a special case for the “Words-and-Rules” theory. In this
study, it has been investigated whether native speakers of Turkish employ
plural nouns as non-heads within noun-noun compounds to examine the
validity of the “Words-and-Rules” theory for Turkish. In spite of the fact that
the results obtained from a corpus-analysis and a paper and pencil experiment
yielded findings that did not perfectly overlap, it was found that Turkish native
speakers, like native speakers of other languages investigated before (such as
English and German), overall preferred plural nouns to a lesser extent than
they did singular nouns as non-heads in nominal compounds. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-8552 2587-0939 |