Morphological Decomposition in Heritage Turkish Speakers in the U.S.
Morphological Decomposition in Heritage Turkish Speakers in the U.S.

Author: Esra Eldem (Graduate student)

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: The present study aimed to analyze the processing of morphologically complex words in heritage Turkish speakers in the U.S. Two separate priming experiments (English and Turkish) were conducted on 27 heritage Turkish speakers (HTS), 28 native Turkish speakers (NTS), and 21 native English speakers (NES). Experiment 1 (Turkish) compared the priming effects (if any), response times and error rates of heritage Turkish and native Turkish speakers. The derived word forms, i.e., adjectives formed with the denominal adjective marker -siz (e.g., sınırsız – sınır; ‘limitless – limit’) and nouns formed with the deadjectival nominalizer -lik (e.g., hastalık – hasta; ‘sickness – sick’) in Turkish were the foci of Experiment 1. Experiment 2 (English) investigated morphological processing in heritage Turkish and native English speakers by focusing on the English derived word forms attached by the denominal adjective marker -less and the deadjectival nominalizer -ness, which are the translation equivalents for -siz and -lik, respectively. The results of Experiment 1 indicated efficient priming in the morphologically complex (i.e., derived) Turkish word forms in both HTS and the NTS groups. Similarly, both HTS and the NES groups exhibited efficient morphological priming in derived English words in Experiment 2. Additionally, the results of the two experiments showed statistically significant differences in the response times between HTS and NTS groups in the Turkish experiment and HTS and NES groups in the English experiment. These findings were interpreted as indicating morphological decomposition in operation during early word recognition of morphologically complex Turkish and English words. Furthermore, the findings showed that although heritage Turkish speakers’ exposure to their L1 was comparatively limited compared to native speakers, they were still able to develop native-like morphological processing mechanisms. The slower response times of the heritage Turkish speaker group compared to both native speaker groups pointed out the importance of language exposure as well as the simultaneous activation of both Turkish and English during reading in one language. Lastly, to the researcher’s knowledge, this is the first-ever study conducted on the morphological decomposition and affix-stripping processes in heritage Turkish speakers in the U.S.

The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

Author: Silvina Montrul

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 1171

ISBN-13: 110880053X

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Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Masked Priming
Masked Priming

Author: Sachiko Kinoshita

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004-06-02

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1135432201

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This book showcases the advantages of masked priming as an alternative to more standard methods of studying language.

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Barbara Dancygier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 1427

ISBN-13: 1108146139

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The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.

Morphological Structure in Language Processing
Morphological Structure in Language Processing

Author: R. Harald Baayen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 3110910187

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This volume brings together a series of studies of morphological processing in Germanic (English, German, Dutch), Romance (French, Italian), and Slavic (Polish, Serbian) languages. The question of how morphologically complex words are organized and processed in the mental lexicon is addressed from different theoretical perspectives (single and dual route models), for different modalities (auditory and visual comprehension, writing), and for language development. Experimental work is reported, as well as computational and statistical modeling. Thus, this volume provides a useful overview of the range of issues currently attracting reseach at the intersection of morphology and psycholinguistics.

The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Author: M. Gareth Gaskell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13: 0198568975

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The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary field has seen massive developments over the past decade, with a broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the understanding of the key components of language in the mind. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of 75 leading researchers in psycholinguistics to provide a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of the art in psycholinguistics. With almost 50 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. The contributors are eminent in a wide range of fields, including psychology, linguistics, human memory, cognitive neuroscience, bilingualism, genetics, development and neuropsychology. Their contributions are organised into six themed sections, covering word recognition, the mental lexicon, comprehension and discourse, language production, language development, and perspectives on psycholinguistics. The breadth of coverage, coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format should make the handbook essential reading for both students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1226

ISBN-13:

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LLBA contains abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics and language-related research, book abstracts, book review listings, and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations." Related disciplines such as anthropology, education, ethnology, information science, medicine, and communications are covered. Also includes some reference to papers in published conference proceedings.

Word Knowledge and Word Usage
Word Knowledge and Word Usage

Author: Vito Pirrelli

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 3110432447

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Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.