A characterization of verb use in Turkish agrammatic narrative speech
- This study investigates the characteristics of narrative-speech production and the use of verbs in Turkish agrammatic speakers (n = 10) compared to non-brain-damaged controls (n = 10). To elicit narrative-speech samples, personal interviews and storytelling tasks were conducted. Turkish has a large and regular verb inflection paradigm where verbs are inflected for evidentiality (i.e. direct versus indirect evidence available to the speaker). Particularly, we explored the general characteristics of the speech samples (e.g. utterance length) and the uses of lexical, finite and non-finite verbs and direct and indirect evidentials. The results show that speech rate is slow, verbs per utterance are lower than normal and the verb diversity is reduced in the agrammatic speakers. Verb inflection is relatively intact; however, a trade-off pattern between inflection for direct evidentials and verb diversity is found. The implications of the data are discussed in connection with narrative-speech production studies on other languages.
Author details: | Seçkin ArslanORCiDGND, Elif Bamyaci, Roelien BastiaanseORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2016.1144224 |
ISSN: | 0269-9206 |
ISSN: | 1464-5076 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27030545 |
Title of parent work (English): | Philosophische Rundschau |
Publisher: | J. C. B. Mohr |
Place of publishing: | Philadelphia |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
Tag: | Agrammatism; Turkish; discourse-linking; evidentiality; finiteness; narrative speech; verbs |
Volume: | 30 |
Number of pages: | 21 |
First page: | 449 |
Last Page: | 469 |
Funding institution: | European Commission [2012-1713/001-001-EMII EMJD] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |