Competing Structures in the Bilingual Mind A Psycholinguistic Invest
This volume combines psycholinguistic experiments with typological investigations in order to provide a comprehensive exploration of the linguistic structure of verb-number agreement in bilingual speakers, with a particular focus on the Turkish language.
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Elif Bamyacı
Competing Structures in the Bilingual Mind A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Optional Verb Number Agreement
The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series Volume 2
Series editors Roberto R. Heredia Anna B. Cieślicka
Praise for Competing Structures in the Bilingual Mind Jaklin Kornfilt This is an important study of syntax-semantics and syntax-pragmatics interfaces that looks at an interesting and understudied phenomenon in Turkish morphosyntax, namely the apparently optional person and number agreement marking on predicates, agreeing with third person plural subjects. Bamyacı carefully teases apart the various factors playing a role, by proposing an account which divides up the observed differences between a default, non-agreeing form and a contextually constrained overt form. Animacy, a semantic notion, and topicality, a pragmatic notion, are shown to be at the heart of the relevant constraints. This in-depth, original study is certain to inform future investigations of interface phenomena. Ayşe Gürel Bamyacı’s work makes a unique and significant contribution to studies in Turkish linguistics while also providing a new perspective to bilingualism research on interface structures. Leah Roberts In this book, Elif Bamyacı presents a comprehensive set of studies on bilinguals’ processing of phenomena at the (semantics-morphosyntax/pragmaticsmorphosyntax) interfaces. She investigates critical questions in SLA such as why processing at the interfaces should be more problematic for bilinguals than narrow syntax, and brings novel insights via the examination of phenomena that are in fact gradient (optional verb marking in Turkish). This book is a highly important addition to our knowledge of cross-linguistic influences in L2 acquisition and bilingual processing, and is a must for students, researchers and theorists of both fields. Mike Sharwood Smith The research reported in this study deserves particular praise not just for exploring a new area of Turkish and its effects on Turkish-German bilingualism but especially because, at the end, the author goes beyond standard, low-level conclusions: in consequence of this, she ends up with a theoretically richer account of why the results turned out as they did by setting her findings within a broader explanatory framework.
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Elif Bamyacı
Competing Structures in the Bilingual Mind A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Optional Verb Number Agreement
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Elif Bamyacı University of Konstanz Konstanz Germany Thesis defended at University of Konstanz on February 6, 2015 Referees: Prof. Barış Kabak, University of Konstanz and University of Würzburg, Germany Prof. Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University, Germany Prof. Carsten Eulitz, University of Konstanz, Germany
The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series ISBN 978-3-319-22990-4 ISBN 978-3-319-22991-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22991-1
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