38598
2015
2015
eng
13
6
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Frontiers Research Foundation
Lausanne
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Looking at the evidence in visual world: eye-movements reveal how bilingual and monolingual Turkish speakers process grammatical evidentiality
This study presents pioneering data on how adult early bilinguals (heritage speakers) and late bilingual speakers of Turkish and German process grammatical evidentiality in a visual world setting in comparison to monolingual speakers of Turkish. Turkish marks evidentiality, the linguistic reference to information source, through inflectional affixes signaling either direct (-DI) or indirect (-mls) evidentiality. We conducted an eyetracking-during-listening experiment where participants were given access to visual 'evidence' supporting the use of either a direct or indirect evidential form. The behavioral results indicate that the monolingual Turkish speakers comprehended direct and indirect evidential scenarios equally well. In contrast, both late and early bilinguals were less accurate and slower to respond to direct than to indirect evidentials. The behavioral results were also reflected in the proportions of looks data. That is, both late and early bilinguals fixated less frequently on the target picture in the direct than in the indirect evidential condition while the monolinguals showed no difference between these conditions. Taken together, our results indicate reduced sensitivity to the semantic and pragmatic function of direct evidential forms in both late and early bilingual speakers, suggesting a simplification of the Turkish evidentiality system in Turkish heritage grammars. We discuss our findings with regard to theories of incomplete acquisition and first language attrition.
Frontiers in psychology
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01387
26441762
1664-1078
wos:2015
1387
WOS:000361143900001
Felser, C (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam Res Inst Multilingualism, Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., felser@uni-potsdam.de
Commission [2012-1713/001-001-EMII EMJD]; Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship
<a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-406302">Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 408</a>
Seçkin Arslan
Roelien Bastiaanse
Claudia Felser
eng
uncontrolled
evidentiality
eng
uncontrolled
information source
eng
uncontrolled
inference
eng
uncontrolled
witnessing
eng
uncontrolled
visual world paradigm
eng
uncontrolled
eye-movements
eng
uncontrolled
Turkish-German bilingualism
Referiert
Open Access
Department Linguistik
Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
40630
2015
2018
eng
13
408
postprint
1
2018-05-16
2018-05-16
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Looking at the evidence in visual world
This study presents pioneering data on how adult early bilinguals (heritage speakers) and late bilingual speakers of Turkish and German process grammatical evidentiality in a visual world setting in comparison to monolingual speakers of Turkish. Turkish marks evidentiality, the linguistic reference to information source, through inflectional affixes signaling either direct (-DI) or indirect (-mls) evidentiality. We conducted an eyetracking-during-listening experiment where participants were given access to visual 'evidence' supporting the use of either a direct or indirect evidential form. The behavioral results indicate that the monolingual Turkish speakers comprehended direct and indirect evidential scenarios equally well. In contrast, both late and early bilinguals were less accurate and slower to respond to direct than to indirect evidentials. The behavioral results were also reflected in the proportions of looks data. That is, both late and early bilinguals fixated less frequently on the target picture in the direct than in the indirect evidential condition while the monolinguals showed no difference between these conditions. Taken together, our results indicate reduced sensitivity to the semantic and pragmatic function of direct evidential forms in both late and early bilingual speakers, suggesting a simplification of the Turkish evidentiality system in Turkish heritage grammars. We discuss our findings with regard to theories of incomplete acquisition and first language attrition.
Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
eye-movements reveal how bilingual and monolingual Turkish speakers process grammatical evidentiality
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Frontiers in psychology 6(9) (2015), S. 1-13 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01387
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Seçkin Arslan
Roelien Bastiaanse
Claudia Felser
Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
408
eng
uncontrolled
evidentiality
eng
uncontrolled
information source
eng
uncontrolled
inference
eng
uncontrolled
witnessing
eng
uncontrolled
visual world paradigm
eng
uncontrolled
eye-movements
eng
uncontrolled
Turkish-German bilingualism
Psychologie
open_access
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Referiert
Open Access
Frontiers
Universität Potsdam
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/40630/phr408.online.pdf