Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Recent advances and the acquisition of Turkish; 2. Previous studies on child Turkish; 2.1 Development of morphosyntax and word order; 2.2 Development of phonology, vowel harmony and word segmentation; 2.3 Literacy development; 2.4 Language disorders in Turkish; 2.5 Key issues in childhood bilingualism; 3. The contributions in this volume; 4. Summary; Acknowledgements; References; Acquisition/processing of morphology, syntax and semantics.
  • Sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony1. Introduction; 1.1 Vowels and vowel harmony in Turkish; 1.2 Studies on the acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish; 1.3 Studies in other languages; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Research aim, hypotheses, and design; 2.3 Materials; 2.3.1 Auditory stimuli; 2.4 General and experimental procedure; 2.5 Coding criteria; 2.6 Validation study with adult native speakers of Turkish; 3. Results; 3.1 Mixed Linear Effect Model (MLE) analyses6; 3.1.1 MLE Model-1: all variables included; 3.1.2 MLE Model-2: BF and RU harmony separately.
  • 3.1.3 Summary of results of MLE Models 1 and 24. Discussion; 5. Conclusion and outlook; Acknowledgements; References; Turkish children's early vocabulary; 1. Introduction; 2. Assessing lexical diversity; 2.1 Computing type-to-token ratio (TTR); 2.2 Common methods of measuring lexical diversity; 2.3 Early lexical acquisition: The view from Turkish; 3. The current study; 3.1 Participants and data; 3.2 Transcription and coding procedures; 3.3 Children's lexicon sizes and measuring TTR across ages; 3.3.1 Lexicon size: Descriptive statistics; 3.3.2 TTRs with respect to age.
  • 3.4 Lexical diversity with respect to age: Herdan's Log TTR4. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Acquisition of canonical and non-canonical word orders in L1 Turkish; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic and pragmatic development in the acquisition of L1 word order; 3. Acquisition of Turkish word order; 4. Word order in Turkish; 5. Pragmatic considerations in Turkish; 6. The study; 7. Results and discussion; 8. Conclusion; References; What does online parsing in Turkish-speaking children reveal about grammar?; 1. Introduction; 2. Is child parsing incremental and predictive?
  • 3. Online findings from children's interpretation in head-final languages4. What do these findings imply about the grammar?; 4.1 Why CCG as a competence grammar?; 4.2 Interpretation of the findings in Özge et al. (2015) and Özge et al. (2013); 5. Conclusion; References; Acquisition of scope relations by Turkish-English bilingual children; 1. Introduction; 2. The disjunction parameter; 2.1 Disjunction in logic and in language; 2.2 The implicature of exclusivity; 2.3 Downward entailment; 2.4 Scope ambiguities; 2.5 The disjunction parameter; 3. Temporal operators.