The present study examined Turkish-speaking children’s source monitoring ability, and whether their ability to use evidentiality markers predicts their source monitoring abilities. Eighty-seven 3- to 6-year-old children ...

This thesis analyzes the acquisition of early verbs and Turkish argument structure by four, monolingual Turkish children whose language development is studied longitudinally between the ages 1; 1,19 and 3;3,3. In the first ...

The present study was conducted to investigate the prevailing literacy characteristics of Turkish middle and working class homes and to identify the literacy activities that contribute to the acquisition of pre-literacy ...

The present study intended to answer two major research questions: 1) Whether intense exposure to a second language (L2) affects first language (L1) narrative skills of 5- and 7-year old children, and 2) whether learning ...

This study investigated the effect of grammaticalized markers of genericity and evidentiality on children’s understanding of generalizability of knowledge and source reliability. It explored whether children generalize ...