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Eroglu, Süleyman; Alabay, Sercan; Keklik, Hakan – International Education Studies, 2022
An important part of the grammatical proficiency of students learning Turkish as a foreign language is the use of verb complements in terms of case suffixes used with verbs. The suffixes that determine the relations between nouns and verbs that make up the two main word categories of Turkish are case suffixes. Noun case suffixes, whose main…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Suffixes
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Özkan, Erdost – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the vocabulary included in listening texts in the textbooks used in teaching Turkish to foreigners according to their types. The study was limited to New Istanbul Turkish For International Students Course Book-A1 level. Accordingly, a total of eighteen listening texts in six units were analyzed. The document…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Textbooks, Turkish
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Simsek, Ramazan; Gün, Mesut – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
While the significance of corpus-based research in the teaching of foreign language and native language is increasing, the need for such studies is also increasing accordingly. The priority of the vocabulary taught in language education are identified through corpus-based studies in line with the international criteria set in the relevant field.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Ates, N. Tayyibe; Ari, Gökhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
The purpose of this work is to determine how widely and in which semantic and morphologic categories, word associations are used by children. There is no study about word associations children use in the acquisition of Turkish as their mother tongue. Participants of the current research consisted of a total of 90 kids between 4.0 and 6.0 years of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Preschool Children, Nouns
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Bayram, Ece; Aydin, Özgür; Ergenc, Hacer Iclal; Akbostanci, Muhittin Cenk – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
In this study we present a picture database of 160 nouns and 160 verbs. All verbs and nouns are divided into two groups as action and non-action words. Age of acquisition, familiarity, imageability, name agreement and complexity norms are reported alongside frequency, word length and morpheme count for each word. Data were collected from 600…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Databases, Pictorial Stimuli
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Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Zengin, Betül Firdevs – First Language, 2021
This study investigates the effects of early second-language (L2) acquisition on introduction of characters in narrative discourse by comparing 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (first-language [L1] = Turkish) and bilingual (L1 = Turkish, L2 = English) children. Turkish does not have a grammaticalized article system like English which enables to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Native Language
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Akbulut, Fatma Demiray – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Over the last few decades, it has become obligatory to publish academic research to survive in the academic world. In academic writing skill, lexical bundles (LBs) usage is marked as a master ability to build well-organized paragraphs or essays and are essential instruments to sound more natural and be fluent in English. The current study aimed to…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Speakers, Faculty Publishing, Academic Language
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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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Rinker, Tanja; Budde-Spengler, Nora; Sachse, Steffi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Lexical development in first language (L1) Turkish and second language (L2) German in two- to three-year-old children was examined, using parental vocabulary checklists in Turkish and in German. Children showed strong Turkish dominance in the number of lexical items they produced, which was due to the more frequent exposure to Turkish and higher…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Skills
Tat, Deniz – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an analysis of two types of nominal compounds in Turkish, primary compounds and synthetic compounds within the framework of Distributed Morphology. A nominal primary compound is formed by two nouns, and its meaning is largely determined by world knowledge. A synthetic compound, on the other hand, is formed by a noun and a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Evidence, Morphology (Languages)
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Altinkamis, N. Feyza; Kern, Sophie; Sofu, Hatice – First Language, 2014
The main goal of this article is to study the respective role of language typology and context on the noun to verb asymmetry in caregiver speech. The speech of 20 French- and 20 Turkish-speaking mothers addressed to their children in two different situations (book-reading and toy-play) were analysed in terms of noun to verb ratio as well as in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, French, Mothers, Toys
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Snape, Neal; García-Mayo, Maria Del Pilar; Gurel, Ayse – International Journal of English Studies, 2013
This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of English generic noun phrases (NPs) by Spanish, Turkish and Japanese learners. The aim is to identify the role of the first language (L1) in the L2 acquisition of definite NP-level generics and indefinite sentence-level generics with singular, bare plural, and mass generic nouns. The four…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Nouns
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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
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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
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Mavis, Ilknur – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
The purpose of the study is first to investigate whether there is a significant difference among three study groups in terms of total content words, total nominal and verbal productions, and total nominal and verbal inflections; and secondly to analyse the most frequent words produced in relation to a picture description task. The underlying…
Descriptors: Accidents, Verbs, Nouns, Hospitals