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Daller, Michael H.; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine; Furman, Reyhan – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
In the present article we provide evidence for the occurrence of transfer of conceptualization patterns in narratives of two German-Turkish bilingual groups. All bilingual participants grew up in Germany, but only one group is still resident in Germany (n = 49). The other, the returnees, moved back to Turkey after having lived in Germany for…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Form Classes (Languages), Motion, Foreign Countries
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Aydin, Cagla; Ceci, Stephen J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2009
Recent research suggests that acquisition of mental-state language may influence conceptual development. We examine this possibility by investigating the conceptual links between evidentiality in language and suggestibility. Young children are disproportionately suggestible and tend to change their reports or memories when questioned. The authors…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Recall (Psychology), Concept Formation, Language Usage
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Aksu-Koc, Ayhan; Ogel-Balaban, Hale; Alp, Ercan – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2009
Recent research has indicated that conceptual development in a specific domain may not be independent of the way it is mapped linguistically. We explore this claim in the semantic domain of evidentiality by considering various sets of data from Turkish-speaking children between one and a half to six years. We present evidence for (1) the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Semantics, Metalinguistics, Turkish