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Dijital Arşivi

Processing Turkish center-embeddings :|an investigation of case interference and prosodic phrase lengths

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in English Language Education.
dc.contributor.advisor Dinçtopal, Nazik.
dc.contributor.author Bakay, Özge.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:08:57Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:08:57Z
dc.date.issued 2020.
dc.identifier.other FLED 2020 B35
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16621
dc.description.abstract This study investigated the processing difficulty associated with Turkish center-embeddings. Two off-line end-of-sentence acceptability judgment tasks (Experiments 1 and 2) and an eye-tracking experiment were conducted to examine (i) if the processing difficulty of Turkish center-embeddings is influenced by similarity-based interference (e.g., Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) and/or prosodic phrase lengths (Fodor, 2013), (ii) if missing-VP2 illusion (Frazier, 1985) exists in Turkish center-embeddings, and (iii) if the illusion (if it existed) is modulated by similarity-based interference and/or prosodic phrase lengths. The judgment tasks showed that contra the predictions of the similarity-based interference decreasing syntactic interference did not ease the processing difficulty of Turkish center-embeddings, but prosodic phrase lengths encouraging optimal phrasing of the sentence resulted in an easier processing of the construction. There was overall no missing-VP2 illusion in Turkish center-embeddings, but the illusion was observed in the sentences with decreased syntactic interference and discouraging phrase lengths, suggesting that missing-VP2 illusion may be cross-linguistic (Gibson & Thomas, 1999). The results from the eye-tracking experiment showed that decreasing syntactic interference and encouraging phrase lengths facilitated processing Turkish center-embeddings; phonological interference did not affect their processing difficulty, though. Overall, the findings supported the predictions of the similarity-based interference and prosodic phrase lengths accounts and extend them to Turkish.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020.
dc.subject.lcsh Turkish language -- Prosodic analysis.
dc.subject.lcsh Turkish language -- Sentences.
dc.title Processing Turkish center-embeddings :|an investigation of case interference and prosodic phrase lengths
dc.format.pages xiii, 294 leaves ;


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