Browsing by Author "Arslan Uzundağ, Berna"
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The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach
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Publisher and Date:(Cambrıdge Univ Press, 2019)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 ...
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Cultural differences in performance on Eriksen's flanker task
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Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2020)Eriksen's zoom model of attention implies a trade-off between the breadth and resolution of representations of information. Following this perspective, we used Eriksen's flanker task to investigate culture's influence on attentional allocation and attentional resolution. In Experiment1, the spatial distance of the flankers was varied to test whether people from Eastern cultures (here, Turks) experienced more interference than people from Western cultures (here, Americans) when flankers were further ...
