The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach

dc.contributor.author Arslan Uzundağ, Berna
dc.contributor.author Küntay, Aylin C.
dc.contributor.other Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-07T11:40:32Z en_US
dc.date.available 2020-10-07T11:40:32Z en_US
dc.date.issued 2019 en_US
dc.description.abstract Using a cross-linguistic approach, we investigated Turkish-speaking children's acquisition and use of relative clauses (RCs) by examining longitudinal child-caregiver interactions and cross-sectional peer conversations. Longitudinal data were collected from 8 children between the ages of 8 and 36 months. Peer conversational corpus came from 78 children aged between 43 and 64 months. Children produced RCs later than in English (Diessel, 2004) and Mandarin (Chen & Shirai, 2015), and demonstrated increasing semantic and structural complexity with age. Despite the morphosyntactic difficulty of object RCs, and prior experimental findings showing a subject RC advantage, preschool-aged children produced object RCs, which were highly frequent in child-directed speech, as frequently as subject RCs. Object RCs in spontaneous speech were semantically less demanding (with pronominal subjects and inanimate head nouns) than the stimuli used in prior experiments. Results suggest that multiple factors such as input frequency and morphosyntactic and semantic difficulty affect the acquisition patterns. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 5
dc.identifier.doi 10.1017/S030500091900045X en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 1168 en_US
dc.identifier.issue 11/01/19 en_US
dc.identifier.pmid 31495350 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85072167544 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality N/A
dc.identifier.startpage 1142 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3471
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091900045X
dc.identifier.volume 46 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000511124800006 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality N/A
dc.institutionauthor Küntay, Aylin C. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Cambridge University Press en_US
dc.relation.journal Journal of Child Language en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.subject Turkish en_US
dc.subject Corpus en_US
dc.subject Cross-linguistic approach en_US
dc.subject Language acquisition en_US
dc.subject Relative clauses en_US
dc.subject Typological comparisons en_US
dc.title The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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