Sınırlayıcı Odak Parçacığı Sadece’nin Edinimi

Simge Topaloğlu; Mine Nakipoğlu

doi:10.18492/dad.320483

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The Acquisition of the Turkish Focus Particle Sadece (“Only”)

Abstract

This study aims to investigate what kinds of syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic cues children use in order to determine the focus of a sentence, by examining how Turkish-acquiring preschoolers interpret sentences that contain the restrictive focus particle sadece ("only"). Our study constitutes the first inquiry into the comprehension of focus particles in Turkish in the acquisition literature, and by utilizing unique syntactic properties of Turkish such as scrambling in designing the experimental materials, it maintains the view that the scope misassignment errors detected in previous studies on languages other than Turkish stem from a pragmatic bias that causes children to designate the object NP or the last NP of the sentence – which often coincides with the object NP – as the default focus, and not from instantiating a non-adult-like syntactic representation for sentences with focus particles.

Keywords

acquisition of Turkish,focus,restrictive focus particles,pragmatic development,truth value judgment task

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

-

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Simge Topaloğlu
BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye

Mine Nakipoğlu
BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Publication Date

July 3, 2017

Submission Date

November 20, 2016

Acceptance Date

March 22, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 28 Number: 1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.320483

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA69AY97ML

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RIS / Bibtex

APA

Topaloğlu, S., & Nakipoğlu, M. (2017). Sınırlayıcı Odak Parçacığı Sadece’nin Edinimi. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 28(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.320483

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