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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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Allen, Shanley; Ozyurek, Ash; Kita, Sotaro; Brown, Amanda; Furman, Reyhan; Ishizuka, Tomoko; Fujii, Mihoko – Cognition, 2007
Different languages map semantic elements of spatial relations onto different lexical and syntactic units. These crosslinguistic differences raise important questions for language development in terms of how this variation is learned by children. We investigated how Turkish-, English-, and Japanese-speaking children (mean age 3;8) package the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Children, Contrastive Linguistics, English
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Modirkhamene, Sima – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study examines the possible effects of bilinguality on third language learning among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with a focus on reading comprehension proficiency achievement. This study is a longitudinal survey of EFL learners in Urmia University in Azerbaijan, Iran, during 2002-2004. It compared 56 Turkish-Persian…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries