Browsing by Author "Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı"
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Early Event Understanding Predicts Later Verb Comprehension and Motion Event Lexicalization
Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Göksun, Tilbe (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 ... -
Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Narrative Structure and Linguistic Processes in Preschool and School-Aged Children
Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı (İstanbul Üniversitesi, 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 ... -
Effects of second-language acquisition on character introductions in 5-and 7-year-old bilingual and monolingual children's Frog story narratives
Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Unlutabak, Burcu; Zengin, Betül Firdevs (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2021)This study investigates the effects of early second-language (L2) acquisition on introduction of characters in narrative discourse by comparing 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (first-language [L1] = Turkish) and bilingual ... -
Fine motor abilities and parental input of spatial features predict object word comprehension of Turkish-learning children
Kobas, Mert; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Göksun, Tilbe (WILEY, 2021-06)Object word learning can be based on infant-related factors such as their manual actions and socio-linguistic factors such as parental input. Specific input for spatial features (i.e., size, shape, features of objects) can ... -
Understanding language acquisition: Neural theory of language
Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı (Selcuk University, 2021)This paper aims to discuss old and contemporary perspectives in understanding language acquisition taking into account the neural theory of language. Discussing a recent theory by Kuhl (2010), neural substrates of first ...