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Uygun, Serkan; Schwarz, Lara; Clahsen, Harald – Second Language Research, 2023
Heritage speakers (HS) have been shown to experience difficulties with inflectional morphology (particularly with irregular morphology) and to frequently overapply regular morphology. The present study seeks to get further insight into the inflectional processes of HS by investigating how these are generalized to nonce words in language…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Turkish, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning
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Jacob, Gunnar; Safak, Duygu Fatma; Demir, Orhan; Kirkici, Bilal – Second Language Research, 2019
In a masked morphological priming experiment, we compared the processing of derived and inflected morphologically complex Turkish words in heritage speakers of Turkish living in Berlin and in native speakers of Turkish raised and living in Turkey. The results show significant derivational and inflectional priming effects of a similar magnitude in…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Turkish, Priming, Native Language
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Schimke, Sarah; Dimroth, Christine – Second Language Research, 2018
In this study, verb placement with respect to negation is investigated in elicited production and elicited sentence imitation data collected with child second language (L2) learners of German. These data are compared to published data from adult L2 learners, which were collected with the same elicitation materials and were re-analysed for the…
Descriptors: Verbs, German, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Haznedar, Belma – Second Language Research, 2010
This study investigates the issue of crosslinguistic influence in the domain of subject realization in Turkish in simultaneous acquisition of Turkish and English. The use of subjects in a null subject language like Turkish is a phenomenon linked to the pragmatics-syntax interface of the grammar and, thus, is a domain where crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Monolingualism, Interference (Language), Pragmatics
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Orgassa, Antje; Weerman, Fred – Second Language Research, 2008
In this article we compare five groups of learners acquiring Dutch gender as marked on determiners and adjectival inflection. Groups of L1 (first language) children and L1-SLI (first-language specific-language-impairment) children are compared to three Turkish-Dutch L2 (second language) groups: adult L2, child L2 and child L2-SLI. Overall, our…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Impairments, Indo European Languages
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Kuhberg, Heinz – Second Language Research, 1992
Study of the German attrition of two Turkish girls who returned to Turkey after residing in Germany found that attrition stages (slower speech and code-switching; lexical attrition; and basic grammar) were largely a mirror-image of a Turkish boy's acquisition of German while residing in Germany. (14 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, German, Language Skill Attrition