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The Acquisition of Aspect and Modality: The Case of Past Reference in Turkish

By Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
0521331196, 9780511554353, 0521024013, 0511554354, 9780521024013, 9780521331197
LCC
PL164 .A38 1988
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5982879 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages
260\259
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Aksu-Ko?'s empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense forms the basis for this original and important contribution to the current debate among psycholinguists on the interrelationship between language and cognitive development. Turkish, in its grammar, makes a clear distinction between direct and indirect experience, separating personal observation of processes from both inference and narrative. This distinction thus provides an ideal method of observing linguistic and neurolinguistic conceptual development. Aksu-Ko? exploits this technique to its full advantage in a study conducted across a wide range of ages. The data are meticulously analyzed and the theoretical implications for a neo-Piagetian paradigm are carefully considered.

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