Browsing by Subject "Language"
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Analogy is Indispensable but Rule is a Must: Insights From Turkish
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2022)Inflectional morphology provides a unique platform for a discussion of whether morphological productivity is rule-based or analogy-based. The present study testing 140 children (range = 29 to 97 months; M(SD) = 64.1(18.8)) ... -
From more to less 'Civil' borderline discourses in mainstream media and government Reflections on Turkey since 2002
(John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2022)Between the civil and uncivil lie 'borderline' discourses where speech that appears civil is laden with uncivil ideas, norms and discourses that normalise anti-pluralist, nativist and exclusionary views. Such discourses ... -
Gender Differences in Item Format and Skill Area: Some Evidence from an EFL Achievement Test
(Journal Language Teaching & Learning, 2014)The present study investigated the extent to which male and female language learners' scores on achievement tests vary according to item format and skill areas. The statistical analysis of data from one achievement test ... -
Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)Bilinguals tend to produce more co-speech hand gestures to compensate for reduced communicative proficiency when speaking in their L2. We here investigated L1-Turkish and L2-English speakers' gesture use in an emotional ... -
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention*
(Oxford Univ Press Inc, 2022)We evaluate the impact of a training program aimed at improving the relational atmosphere in the workplace. The program encourages prosocial behavior and the use of professional language, focusing primarily on leaders' ... -
In the Father’s House: Language and Violence in the Work of Assia Djebar and Leïla Sebbar
(2018)This essay examines autobiographical writing by two women who grew up in colonial Algeria; it considers how the relationship between fathers and daughters is marked by linguistic conflict. For each of these writers, language ... -
Ingmar Bergman'ın Persona filminden hareketle 'susan anlatıcı' modeli önerisi ve bu model kullanılarak yazılacak yeni çalışmalar için olanakların araştırılması
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016)Bu tez ingmar Bergman'in Persona filmi uzerinden bir “susan anlatici” modelinin onerilmesi ve bu modelin yeni calismalara kaynaklik edecek potansiyelinin kesfedilmesi amaciyla yazilmistir. Persona'daki iki karakter arasindaki ... -
Mothers' descriptions of referents are related to children' communicative competence
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2022)Describing an entity in a way that leads to its correct identification among similar others is required for successful referential communication. Although many studies investigated children's language development in relation ... -
Motion event representation in L1-Turkish versus L2-English speech and gesture: Relations to eye movements for event components
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)Purpose: We investigated interrelations among speech, co-speech gestures, and visual attention in first language (L1)-Turkish second language (L2)-English speakers' descriptions of motion events. We asked whether young ... -
Parental input during book reading and toddlers' elicited and spontaneous communicative interactions
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2022)This study examined the relation between characteristics of parental input, particularly focusing on questions and pointing gestures directed to toddlers during book reading, and toddlers' elicited and spontaneous communicative ... -
Relations Among Self-Reported Maternal Stress, Smartphone Use, and Mother-Child Interactions
(Springer, 2022)A growing body of research indicates that parents' smartphone use is associated with interruptions in parent-child interactions and lower levels of parental responsiveness, which may adversely affect children's cognitive ... -
Young minds' quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2022)Children's remarkable ability to generalize beyond the input and the resulting overregularizations/ irregularizations provide a platform for a discussion of whether morphology learning uses analogy-based, rule-based, or ...