Browsing by Author "Aktan-Erciyes, A."

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Parental Use of Causal Language for Preterm and Full-Term Children: a Longitudinal Study
(Cambridge University Press, 2023) Ozdemir, S.C.; Aktan-Erciyes, A.; Göksun, T.
Parents are often a good source of information, introducing children to how the world around them is described and explained in terms of cause-and-effect relations. Parents also vary in their speech, and these variations can predict children's later language skills. Being born preterm might be related to such parent-child interactions. The present longitudinal study investigated parental causal language use in Turkish, a language with particular causative morphology, across three time points when preterm and full-term children were 14-, 20-, and 26-months-old. In general, although preterm children heard fewer words overall, there were no differences between preterm and full-term groups in terms of the proportion of causal language input. Parental causal language input increased from 20 to 26 months, while the amount of overall verbal input remained the same. These findings suggest that neonatal status can influence the amount of overall parental talk, but not parental use of causal language. © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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Relationship Between Bilingual Experience And Cognitive Control Of Bilingual Children;
(Dilbilim Dernegi, 2024) Gong, X.; Aktan-Erciyes, A.; Karadöller, D.Z.
There has been growing interest in how different dimensions of bilingual experience relate to cognitive abilities within the bilingual group. However, this interest rarely targeted data from young bilingual children who lack sufficient language production. The current study includes a variety of bilingual experience-related factors, such as language proficiency, language use, and code-switching frequency, to investigate 30-to 48-month-old bilingual children as well as their parents. Results showed that children’s age, rather than any of the bilingual-experience-related variables from neither children nor parents, predicted children’s cognitive control abilities. This study is one of the few that looked at the bilingual effects by including three bilingual-experience-related dimensions as well as parental factors. The implications of applying the bilingual experience dimension-based approach and including environmental factors while studying young bilingual age groups with limited language production were discussed. © 2024, Dilbilim Dernegi. All rights reserved.