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.
Konular | Sosyal |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi : 3 Temmuz 2017 |
APA | Topaloğlu, S , Nakipoğlu, M . (2017). Sınırlayıcı Odak Parçacığı Sadece’nin Edinimi . Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi , 28 (1) , 1-28 . DOI: 10.18492/dad.320483 |