Öner Özçelik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Öner Özçelik plays a role.
Journal
2019
Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1, pp. 1–32 | To be specified
2017 This paper reports on a study investigating restrictions on definiteness (the Definiteness Effect) in existential constructions in the two languages of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany. Turkish and German differ in how the Definiteness Effect plays out. Definite expressions in German may not… read more
Towards the use of phonological markedness and extraprosodicity in accounting for morphological errors in Specific Language Impairment Language, Interaction and Acquisition 8:2, pp. 234–272 | Article
2017 Certain grammatical morphemes are variably produced in the speech of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Previous research tends to view this as a consequence of either a deficit in linguistic knowledge or a limitation in processing capacity; however, both approaches raise problems. read more
Acquisition of L2 Turkish prosody: The effects of purely phonological and phonosyntactic issues Second Language Acquisition of Turkish, Gürel, Ayşe (ed.), pp. 19–48 | Article
2016 This paper investigates second language acquisition of lower-level (i.e. word-level) and higher-level prosody in Turkish to address the role of Universal Grammar (UG) via two different studies. The results of the first study demonstrate that lower-level prosody presents particular challenges for… read more
Decreasing dependence on orthography in phonological development: Evidence from vowel harmony in English-Turkish interlanguage Second Language Acquisition of Turkish, Gürel, Ayşe (ed.), pp. 49–72 | Article
2016 Despite the general transparency of standard Turkish orthography, it fails to distinguish the (not fully predictable) contrast between coronal vs. dorsal laterals following back vowels in certain loanwords: the laterals in /koɫ/ <kol> and
/rol/ <rol> are both represented as <l>. This contrast… read more
In this paper we investigate whether learners of L2 English show knowledge of the Definiteness Effect (Milsark, 1977), which restricts definite expressions from appearing in the existential there-insertion construction. There are crosslinguistic differences in how restrictions on definiteness play… read more