The acquisition of Modern Greek by L1 Turkish children: Evidence from nominal agreement and morphology.

Abstract

The aim of this study is twofold: (a) to examine whether L2 children who are native speakers of an L1 without grammatical gender and are exposed to the L2 after age 5 can acquire the feature of gender in the L2 and (b) to investigate the role that different linguistic variables (semantic, morpho-phonological, syntactic and lexical) play in gender assignment and gender agreement by L1 and L2 speakers of Greek. 132 native speakers of Turkish, aged 12-16, who were systematically exposed to Greek when they entered primary school (NNS) and 41 native speakers of Greek at the same age (NS) participated in this study. The NNS were divided in four proficiency levels according to a written proficiency test. They also differed in terms of the intensity of input they had received, which was measured by means of their type of schooling (standard Greek vs. minority school). Two oral elicitation tasks were used: a gender assignment task, in which participants had to choose the appropriate definite ar ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/29880
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/29880
ND
29880
Alternative title
Η κατάκτηση της ελληνικής από παιδιά με μητρική γλώσσα την τουρκική: στοιχεία από την ονοματική συμφωνία και τη μορφολογία
Author
Konta, Eirini (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2013
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Αναστασιάδη-Συμεωνίδη Άννα
Παπαδοπούλου Δέσποινα
Τσαπκίνη Κυράνα
Μαρίνης Θεόδωρος
Τσιμπλή Ιάνθη-Μαρία
Αγαθοπούλου Ελένη
Βαρλοκώστα Σπυριδούλα
Discipline
Social Sciences
Education
Humanities and the Arts
Languages and Literature
Keywords
Child L2 acquisition; Modern Greek as an L2; Age of Acquisition; Input; Muslim minority; Gender agreement; Gender assignment; Natural gender; Linguistic variables; Semantic cues; Morpho-phonological cues; Syntactic cues; Lexical knowledge
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
xvi, 509 σ., im., tbls., ch.
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