Browsing İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi / The Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Science by KHAS Author "Aktan Erciyes, Aslı"
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Early Event Understanding Predicts Later Verb Comprehension and Motion Event Lexicalization
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Publisher and Date:(Amer Psychologıcal Assoc, 2019)Before infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization are related to children's later verb comprehension (Konishi, Stahl, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2016). We asked: (a) Do infants learning Turkish, a verb-framed language, attend to both manner and path changes in motion events? (b) Is early detection of path and manner related ...
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Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Narrative Structure and Linguistic Processes in Preschool and School-Aged Children
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Publisher and Date:(Istanbul Univ, 2019)This research examines the effects of second language acquisition in early childhood on the structural and linguistic properties of narrative skills in the child's native language. To investigate these questions, narrative and vocabulary skills in monolingual and bilingual children (Frog story) were evaluated. One hundred and twelve five- and seven-year-old monolingual (Language 1 [L1]: Mother tongue, Turkish) (N = 61) and bilingual (L1, Turkish; Language 2 [L2]: Second language, English) (N = 51) ...
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Effects of second language on motion event lexicalization: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual children's frog story narratives
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Publisher and Date:(Selcuk University, 2020)This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in the main verb and path in a non-verbal element, whereas Turkish is a verb-framed language that conflates motion with path in the main verb and expresses manner in a subordinated verb. We asked whether (1) learning a second language had an effect on children's event descriptions in ...
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Longitudinal effects of second language on first language narrative skills and executive functions of preschool children
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Publisher and Date:(Selcuk University, 2020)The present study investigated the longitudinal effects of early exposure to L2-English on L1-Turkish language competence, narrative skills and executive functioning. We asked whether early immersion-like exposure to L2, starting around 3 years of age, would have reflections on L1 competence, L1 narrative skills and gains in cognitive flexibility. Thirty 4-year-olds attending two types of preschools participated in the study: L1-preschools (N=12) with Turkish instruction and L2-preschools (N=18) ...
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A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier, 2020)Play is an important tool for children's social interactions and cognitive skills. The current study examines the links between pretend play and language in 119 Turkish preschoolers at two time points tested one-year apart (Time 1 M-age = 45.82 months and Time 2 M-age = 57.68 months). Preschoolers' language competence (linguistic complexity and receptive vocabulary) was assessed along with several pretend play measures (telephone task, imaginary pantomime task, pretense score from a free play ...
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New insights from children with early focal brain injury: Lessons to be learned from examining STEM-related skills
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Publisher and Date:(Wiley, 2019)The study of cognitive development in children with early brain injury reveals crucial information about the developing brain and its plasticity. However information on long-term outcomes of these children especially in domains relevant to science technology engineering and math (STEM) remains limited. In the current review our goal is to address the existing research on cognitive development of children with pre- or perinatal focal brain lesion (PL) as it relates to children's STEM-related skills ...
