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In:The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood
Edited by Belma Haznedar and F. Nihan Ketrez
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 20] 2016
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 | Boğaziçi University
 | İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Published online: 18 November 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.20.01haz
Article outline
  • 1.Recent advances and the acquisition of Turkish
  • 2.Previous studies on child Turkish
    • 2.1Development of morphosyntax and word order
    • 2.2Development of phonology, vowel harmony and word segmentation
    • 2.3Literacy development
    • 2.4Language disorders in Turkish
    • 2.5Key issues in childhood bilingualism
  • 3.The contributions in this volume
  • 4.Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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