Effects of Second Language on Motion Event Lexicalization: Comparison of Bilingual and Monolingual Children's Frog Story Narratives

dc.contributor.author Aktan Erciyes, Aslı
dc.contributor.author Aktan Erciyes, Aslı
dc.contributor.other Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-22T21:34:58Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-22T21:34:58Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.department Fakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract 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 their first language and (2) the effects were bidirectional. One-hundred-and-twelve 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (L1-Turkish) and bilingual (L1-Turkish; L2-English) children participated. Participants produced narratives for wordless picture book, Frog, where are you? Six scenes of the book were selected for coding purposes as they represented motion events: (1) Frog's exit from the jar, (2) Dog's fall from the window, (3) Gopher popping out of the hole, (4) Owl's exit from a nest, (5) Boy and dog falling down and (6) Boy and dog landing in a pond. For L1 descriptions, 5-year-old bilinguals used more manner-only and less path-only descriptions than monolinguals; no difference was found for 7-year-olds. For L2 descriptions, bilingual children used less Manner-only and more Path-only expressions in their L2 narratives compared to L1 narratives. These findings suggest that for 5-year-olds, exposure to second language had an impact on how motion events are encoded. Results inform us about the early interactions between L1 and L2 in motion event lexicalization. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 8
dc.identifier.doi 10.17263/jlls.803576 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 1145 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1305-578X en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1305-578X
dc.identifier.issue 3 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85092796228 en_US
dc.identifier.startpage 1127 en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid 395143 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3631
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.803576
dc.identifier.uri https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/yayin/detay/395143
dc.identifier.volume 16 en_US
dc.institutionauthor Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Selcuk University en_US
dc.relation.journal Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 8
dc.subject Bilingualism en_US
dc.subject English en_US
dc.subject Motion event lexicalization en_US
dc.subject Thinking-for-speaking en_US
dc.subject Turkish en_US
dc.title Effects of Second Language on Motion Event Lexicalization: Comparison of Bilingual and Monolingual Children's Frog Story Narratives en_US
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