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Demir, Bora – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
This study investigates the phonological awareness of a Turkish monolingual and a Turkish-English bilingual child in Turkish. As a case study, the main focus of this study is to explore whether a bilingual advantage exists in phonological processing. Theories of bilingualism and empirical data led to the prediction that the bilingual participant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Phonological Awareness
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Demir, Ozlem Ece; So, Wing-Chee; Ozyurek, Asli; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Speakers choose a particular expression based on many factors, including availability of the referent in the perceptual context. We examined whether, when expressing referents, monolingual English- and Turkish-speaking children: (1) are sensitive to perceptual context, (2) express this sensitivity in language-specific ways, and (3) use co-speech…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nouns, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition