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The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood
Edited by Belma Haznedar and F. Nihan Ketrez
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 20] 2016
► pp. vii–viii

Table of contents

Introduction 1
Editors
Part I.Acquisition/processing of morphology, syntax and semantics
Chapter 1.Sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony: preference shift from familiarity to novelty 29
Chapter 2.Turkish children’s early vocabulary: A Study on the lexical diversity of two sisters 57
Chapter 3.Acquisition of canonical and non-canonical word orders in L1 Turkish 79
Chapter 4.What does online parsing in Turkish-speaking children reveal about grammar? 99
Chapter 5.Acquisition of scope relations by Turkish-English bilingual children 119
Part II.Discourse
Chapter 6.Children’s referential choices in Turkish: Experimentally elicited and conversationally occasioned determinants 153
Chapter 7.Learning to think, talk, and gesture about motion in language-specific ways: Insights from Turkish 177
Chapter 8.Scene-setting and referent introduction in sign and spoken languages: What does modality tell us? 193
Part III.Literacy development
Chapter 9.Integrating cognitive and sociocultural aspects of reading in Turkish 223
Chapter 10.Phonological awareness in reading acquisition: Evidence from reading skills of Turkish-English successive bilingual children 243
Part IV.Typical vs. Atypical development in monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children
Chapter 11.Vocabulary and grammar acquisition in Turkish as assessed by the Turkish Communicative Development Inventory: A comparison of typically-developing and language delayed children 275
Chapter 12.Language impairment in Turkish children: The nature of morphological errors 295
Chapter 13.Language development in Turkish-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders 325
Chapter 14.Verbal functional categories in the speech of a Turkish-speaking child with autism 341
Chapter 15.L2 children do not fluctuate: Production and on-line processing of (in)definite articles in Turkish-speaking child L2 learners of English 361
Chapter 16.Second language exposure in the preschool: Relation to first language skills and executive functions 389
Index 413


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