Browsing by Author "Goksun, Tilbe"
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Children's thinking-for-speaking Bidirectional effects of L1 Turkish and L2 English for motion events
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Goksun, Tilbe; Tekcan, Ali Izzet; Aksu-Koc, Ayhan (John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2021)This study investigates how children lexicalize motion events 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 ... -
Early parental causal language input predicts children's later causal verb understanding
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Goksun, Tilbe (Cambridge Univ Press, 2023)How does parental causal input relate to children's later comprehension of causal verbs? Causal constructions in verbs differ across languages. Turkish has both lexical and morphological causatives. We asked whether (1) ... -
Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings
Ozder, Levent Emir; Ozer, Demet; Goksun, Tilbe (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)Bilinguals tend to produce more co-speech hand gestures to compensate for reduced communicative proficiency when speaking in their L2. We here investigated L1-Turkish and L2-English speakers' gesture use in an emotional ... -
Gestures Cued by Demonstratives in Speech Guide Listeners' Visual Attention During Spatial Language Comprehension
Ozer, Demet; Karadoller, Dilay Z.; Ozyurek, Asli; Goksun, Tilbe (Amer Psychological Assoc, 2023)Gestures help speakers and listeners during communication and thinking, particularly for visual-spatial information. Speakers tend to use gestures to complement the accompanying spoken deictic constructions, such as ... -
Linguistic and nonlinguistic evaluation of motion events in a path-focused language
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Akbuga, Emir; Dik, Feyza Nur; Goksun, Tilbe (Cambridge Univ Press, 2022)This study examines how properties of path (the trajectory of motion) and manner (how an action is performed) components of motion events are reflected in linguistic and nonlinguistic motion event conceptualization in a ... -
Motion event representation in L1-Turkish versus L2-English speech and gesture: Relations to eye movements for event components
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Akbuga, Emir; Kizildere, Erim; Goksun, Tilbe (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)Purpose: We investigated interrelations among speech, co-speech gestures, and visual attention in first language (L1)-Turkish second language (L2)-English speakers' descriptions of motion events. We asked whether young ... -
Motor skills, language development, and visual processing in preterm and full-term infants
Kobas, Mert; Kizildere, Erim; Dogan, Isil; Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Demir-Lira, O. Ece; Akman, Ipek; Goksun, Tilbe (Springer, 2023)Language development is intertwined with motor development. This study examined how visual processing might mediate the relation between language development and motor skills in preterm (PT, n = 34, Mean gestational age = ... -
Parental input during book reading and toddlers' elicited and spontaneous communicative interactions
Unlutabak, Burcu; Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Yilmaz, Duygu; Kandemir, Songuel; Goksun, Tilbe (Elsevier Science Inc, 2022)This study examined the relation between characteristics of parental input, particularly focusing on questions and pointing gestures directed to toddlers during book reading, and toddlers' elicited and spontaneous communicative ...