Children's Interpretation of Disjunction in Negative Sentences: A Comparison of Turkish and German

Autor/inn/en	Geçkin, Vasfiye; Thornton, Rosalind; Crain, Stephen
Titel	Children's Interpretation of Disjunction in Negative Sentences: A Comparison of Turkish and German
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 25 (2018) 2, S.197-212 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2017.1280796
Schlagwörter	Contrastive Linguistics; Turkish; Language Acquisition; German; Age Differences; Task Analysis; English (Second Language); Sentence Structure; Bilingualism; Adults; Children; Language Processing; Transfer of Training; Language Research; Foreign Countries; Semantics; Linguistic Input; Native Language; Germany; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Türkisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Deutscher; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Aufgabenanalyse; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Bilingualismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sprachverarbeitung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Sprachforschung; Ausland; Semantik; Sprachbildung; Deutschland; Türkei
Abstract	This study investigates the interpretation of disjunction words (English or) in negative sentences by Turkish- and German-speaking children. Both children and adults were asked to judge Turkish/German sentences corresponding to the English sentence "This animal did not eat the carrot or the pepper." Children acquiring both languages consistently assigned the same interpretation, which can be paraphrased as "This animal did not eat either the carrot or the pepper." German-speaking adults also consistently assigned this interpretation, whereas Turkish-speaking adults assigned a different interpretation, which can be paraphrased as "It is the carrot or the pepper that this animal did not eat." The finding that children initially assign the same interpretation across languages, despite difference in the interpretations assigned by adults, is credited to a "subset" principle of language learnability. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01