Aslı Aktan-Erciyes
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aslı Aktan-Erciyes is involved.
Articles
2021 Children’s thinking-for-speaking: Bidirectional effects of L1 Turkish and L2 English for motion events Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:5, pp. 669–699 | Article
This study investigates how children lexicalize motion events in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in the main verb and path in a non-verbal element, whereas Turkish is a verb-framed… read more
2017 Chapter 12. Event perception and language learning: Early interactions between language and thought Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Ketrez, F. Nihan, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek (eds.), pp. 179–198 | Chapter
How do children learn relational words such as verbs and prepositions? We present a framework for testing children’s acquisition of relational words. We argue that learning relational language requires first discriminating and abstracting a set of components in events. Children then come to… read more
2016 Second language exposure in the preschool: Relation to first language skills and executive functions The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Haznedar, Belma and F. Nihan Ketrez (eds.), pp. 389–412 | Chapter
An emerging situation in Turkey involves the acquisition of a second language (L2; English) in a context where the first language (L1; Turkish) is the majority language by children from advantaged social backgrounds. The present study explores the consequences of exposure to L2 in preschool on… read more