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Motion Predicates In Turkish: A Morpho-Syntactic Treatment
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Research on space and language has had fruitful outcomes in the last decades. One of the related domains of study is motion itself, which is central to our experience. Although the work on the semantic analysis of motion ... -
Plant-Themed Metaphors In Turkısh Proverbs: A Cognıtıve Approach
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-02)Plants play an unneglectable role in human-life; therefore, they are among the most used concrete items that the human mind takes advantage of while understanding abstract concepts. The aim is to find out how Turkish people ... -
Pragmatic and Conversational Functions of Tag Questions in Turkish: Comparison between Natural Speech and Classroom Setting
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017-12-15)Involving an anchor and a tag, tag questions serve as pragmatic tools in a language. Apart from their syntactic features, in a more general sense, in natural speech speakers take advantage of their pragmatic properties to ... -
Processing of preverbal scrambling in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)This psycholinguistic study aims to find out the effects of scrambling in processing and perception of congruency in Turkish sentences. In line with this aim, another purpose of the present study is to find out whether ... -
Processing of Turkish Complex Sentences with Wh-Phrases
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This study analyses the processing of complex sentences with wh-phrases in Turkish with two eye tracking experiments. Experiment 1 is conducted with kim-E (to whom), while experiment 2 is conducted with when (ne zaman). ... -
Reference Tracking In Children’s Story Books In Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)This study investigates the reference tracking strategies used in children’s story books in Turkish and aims to find out how referring expressions – noun phrases, overt pronouns and zero pronouns – in subject position are ... -
The Acquisition of Null and Overt Subjects in L2 Turkish at the Syntax Discourse Interface Across Different Languages
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)This study investigates the acquisition of null and overt subjects at the syntax-discourse interface across discourse null subject and non-null subject languages in L2 Turkish and focuses on L1 transfer effects. Considering ... -
The Analysis of the L2 Performances of Turkish Speakers on the Island Constraints in English to Assess the Validity of the Interpretability Hypothesis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The present study aimed to analyze the validity of the Interpretability Hypothesis by analyzing the performances of the Turkish L2 leaners of English on island constraints on wh-movement in English. The data of the study ... -
The Effects of Syntactic Priming on Turkish English Bilinguals’ Production of Passive Sentences
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Syntactic priming is defined as the tendency of producing recently exposed utterance. The present study investigates the effects of syntactic priming which is passive structure on the production of passives among 30 Turkish ... -
The Role of Context on Processing of Turkish Subject and Object Relative Clauses
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-04)Sentence processing is one of the major topics that is studied in psycholinguistics. Relative clauses due to their complex structures have offered a rich test bed to researchers studying in the psycholinguistics (Traxler, ... -
The Vowel Triangle of Turkish and Phonological Processes of Laxing and Fronting in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)One of the motives for this thesis is the need for a universal vowel chart based on acoustic fact. The vowel quadrilateral represented in the IPA chart distorts the vowel space in terms of acoustic phonetics. Lindsey (2017) ... -
Thematic And Discursive Construction of Homosexual Movement In Turkey Through Kaos GL Magazine
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-04-12)This dissertation aims at investigating thematic and discursive construction of homosexuality through texts published in Kaos GL Magazine, the first and longest-standing alternative gay and lesbian publication in Turkey. ... -
Turkish Verbal Irony Comprehension in Children Aged 5 and 6 Years
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-05-11)This study aims to investigate the accuracy rate of the comprehension and processing times of ironic and literal utterances among five- and six-year-old Turkish-speaking children (N = 60) and a control group of adults (N ...
