Bürünsel Odak ve Ayrık Tümce Yapılarının Edinimi
Dilbilim Arastirmalari Dergisi, cilt.36, sa.2, ss.225-262, 2025 (Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 36 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.18492/dad.1499805
- Dergi Adı: Dilbilim Arastirmalari Dergisi
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.225-262
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Acquisition of Turkish, cleft sentences, focus, presupposition, prosody
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This research examined Turkish-speaking children’s comprehension of prosodic focus and clefts. The first experiment investigated preschoolers’ comprehension of prosodic focus regarding subject and object-focused sentences. Results indicated that children comprehend object-focused sentences more effectively than subject-focused ones until the age of five. Our second experiment explored the effects of pragmatic felicity, age, and cleft type on the cleft comprehension abilities of children. The findings demonstrated that Turkish-speaking children comprehend both cleft types successfully regardless of these factors. Thus, children’s understanding of prosodic focus develops gradually, and the object focus is perceived as the default in the early years of development. However, Turkish-speaking children achieve a high level of competence in interpreting both types of clefts. Our findings suggest that the syntactic structure of Turkish plays a significant role in shaping children’s comprehension abilities.