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A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers
(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 ...
New insights from children with early focal brain injury: Lessons to be learned from examining STEM-related skills
(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 ...
Longitudinal effects of second language on first language narrative skills and executive functions of preschool children
(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, ...
Effects of second language on motion event lexicalization: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual children's frog story narratives
(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 ...