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.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.citation | 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.institutionauthor | Aktan Erciyes, Aslı | |
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.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 |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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