At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children

The aim of this study is to investigate how syntactic and pragmatic features of Turkish word order are acquired by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian bilingual children. The data were collected from Turkish monolingual and bilingual children who were born in England, Germany and Rus...

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Main Authors: Çiğdem SAĞIN-ŞİMŞEK, Elena ANTONOVA-ÜNLÜ
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Language:English
Published: Dilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association) 2021-12-01
Series:Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1187677
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description The aim of this study is to investigate how syntactic and pragmatic features of Turkish word order are acquired by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian bilingual children. The data were collected from Turkish monolingual and bilingual children who were born in England, Germany and Russia and acquired Turkish as their heritage language. The findings of the study reveal that the Turkish monolingual children adopt the use of SOV order as canonical, but they also show sensitivity to the pragmatics of Turkish and use other orders from an early age. Turkish-German, Turkish-English and Turkish-Russian simultaneous bilingual children, on the other hand, showed different patterns of word order acquisition than their Turkish monolingual counterparts.
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spelling doaj-art-b273ed9d100649a9a3296a5e07878c4e2025-01-02T12:02:26ZengDilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392021-12-01323718710.18492/dad.764149At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual ChildrenÇiğdem SAĞIN-ŞİMŞEK0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5234-7546Elena ANTONOVA-ÜNLÜ1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8544-6500Middle East Technical UniversityHacettepe UniversityThe aim of this study is to investigate how syntactic and pragmatic features of Turkish word order are acquired by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian bilingual children. The data were collected from Turkish monolingual and bilingual children who were born in England, Germany and Russia and acquired Turkish as their heritage language. The findings of the study reveal that the Turkish monolingual children adopt the use of SOV order as canonical, but they also show sensitivity to the pragmatics of Turkish and use other orders from an early age. Turkish-German, Turkish-English and Turkish-Russian simultaneous bilingual children, on the other hand, showed different patterns of word order acquisition than their Turkish monolingual counterparts.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1187677acquisition of word ordersimultaneous bilingualismturkish word order
spellingShingle Çiğdem SAĞIN-ŞİMŞEK
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At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
acquisition of word order
simultaneous bilingualism
turkish word order
title At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children
title_full At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children
title_fullStr At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children
title_full_unstemmed At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children
title_short At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Acquisition of Turkish Word Order by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian Bilingual Children
title_sort at the syntax pragmatics interface acquisition of turkish word order by turkish english turkish german and turkish russian bilingual children
topic acquisition of word order
simultaneous bilingualism
turkish word order
url http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1187677
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