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Geçkin, Vasfiye; Crain, Stephen; Thornton, Rosalind – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigated how Turkish-speaking children and adults interpret negative sentences with disjunction (English "or") and ones with conjunction (English "and"). The goal was to see whether Turkish-speaking children and adults assigned the same interpretation to both kinds of sentences and, if not, to determine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Turkish, Children
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Ozyurek, Asli – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigates how Turkish children of different ages discuss a conversation they have witnessed during a televised dialog between two Sesame Street characters. Findings reveal that there is a developmental change in children's ability to use appropriate linguistic means to orient their listeners to the different properties of a conversation. (17…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)