Heritage language and linguistic theory

G Scontras, Z Fuchs, M Polinsky - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

Undercompression errors as evidence for conceptual primitives

MT Guasti, A Alexiadou, U Sauerland - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Meaning First Approach offers a model of the relation between thought and language
that includes a Generator and a Compressor. The Generator build non-linguistic thought …

The acquisition of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech in Mandarin Chinese

J Chen, Y Shirai - Journal of child language, 2015 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the developmental trajectory of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin-
learning children's speech. We analyze the spontaneous production of RCs by four …

Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States

A Coşkun Kunduz, S Montrul - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
How does complex syntax develop in heritage language children? This study investigates
child Turkish heritage speakers' comprehension and production of relative clauses (RCs) in …

Children's referential communication skills: The role of cognitive abilities and adult models of speech

BA Uzundag, AC Küntay - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Referential communication is effective when speakers describe a specific entity in a way that
leads to accurate identification of that referent among competitors. Young children's initial …

Incremental processing in head-final child language: online comprehension of relative clauses in Turkish-speaking children and adults

D Özge, T Marinis, D Zeyrek - Language, Cognition and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigates the parsing of pre-nominal relative clauses (RCs) in children
for the first time with a real-time methodology that reveals moment-to-moment processing …

Processing grammatical evidentiality and time reference in Turkish heritage and monolingual speakers

S Arslan, D De Kok, R Bastiaanse - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
In the current study, we examined how adult heritage and monolingual speakers of Turkish
process evidentiality (the linguistic expression of information source) through finite verb …

The development of narrative skills in Turkish-speaking children: A complexity approach

H Ögel Balaban, A Hohenberger - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The present study examines the development of plot, evaluative and syntactic complexity in
children's narratives and its relationship with gender, ToM, executive function and linguistic …

The Adaptation of Developmental Sentence Scoring and Index of Productive Syntax to Turkish

NS Saban-Dülger, F Turan, E Özcebe - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Language sampling analysis (LSA) plays an important role in evaluating language
skills; hence, the study aimed to develop new assessment measures for the LSA in Turkish …

Hearing relative clauses boosts relative clause usage (and referential clarity) in young Turkish language learners

A Sarilar, D Matthews, AC Küntay - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2015 - cambridge.org
On account of both their functional and their morphosyntactic characteristics, relative clauses
are often viewed as indicators of complexity in child language. Morphosyntactic properties of …