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Geçkin, Vasfiye; Crain, Stephen; Thornton, Rosalind – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigated how Turkish-speaking children and adults interpret negative sentences with disjunction (English "or") and ones with conjunction (English "and"). The goal was to see whether Turkish-speaking children and adults assigned the same interpretation to both kinds of sentences and, if not, to determine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Turkish, Children
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Candan, Ayse; Kuntay, Aylin C.; Yeh, Ya-ching; Cheung, Hintat; Wagner, Laura; Naigles, Letitia R. – Cognitive Development, 2012
We compare the processing of transitive sentences in young learners of a strict word order language (English) and two languages that allow noun omissions and many variant word orders: Turkish, a case-marked language, and Mandarin Chinese, a non case-marked language. Children aged 1-3 years listened to simple transitive sentences in the typical…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese, Word Order