Mehmet Yavaş
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mehmet Yavaş is involved.
2024 Chapter 15. Production of Spanish laterals in early sequential Spanish-English bilinguals Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.), pp. 403–425 | Chapter
This chapter reports on the phonetic production of Spanish laterals of a group of Spanish heritage speakers. Twenty adult female early sequential bilinguals who were all English dominant participated in the investigation. The study investigated the question if the participants’ Spanish… read more
2016 Vowel epenthesis in the acquisition of English /s/-clusters by Turkish speakers Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan, Güven, Mine, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Article
This study reports the results of a study we conducted with data from 25 L1 Turkish speakers’ production of English #sC clusters. We compared the productions of different #sC clusters. Most notable among these was the high importance of the homorganicity when C2 was a [-continuant] (i.e. /st/ and… read more
2014 What guides children’s acquisition
of #sC clusters? A cross-linguistic account Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, Farris-Trimble, Ashley W. and Jessica A. Barlow (eds.), pp. 115–132 | Article
This chapter is an overview of the cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of two-member s-clusters. Results of several studies on three Germanic languages (English, Dutch, and Norwegian) and three non-Germanic languages (Hebrew, Croatian, and Polish) were evaluated. Productions from typically… read more
1982 On Foreign Sound Substitution ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 57, pp. 3–17 | Article