The advanced acquisition of orthography in heritage Turkish in Germany
- The paper investigates Turkish texts from heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany in a pseudo-longitudinal setting, looking at pupils' texts from the 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th grades. Two types of dynamics are identified in the advanced acquisition(1) of Turkish orthography in the heritage context. One is the dynamic of language contact, where in certain areas of the orthography, we find a re-interpretation of Turkish principles according to the German model. However, this changes as the pupils grow up. The second dynamic is the heritage situation. The heritage situation on one side leads to the establishment of new practices, and it also leads to a higher degree of variability of spelling solutions in those areas, where the orthographic system of Turkish poses challenges to every writer, whether monolingual and growing up in Turkey or heritage speaker.
| Author details: | Christoph SchroederORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00043.sch |
| ISSN: | 1387-6732 |
| ISSN: | 1570-6001 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Written language & literacy |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/12/02 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/01/18 |
| Tag: | Turkish; advanced acquisition of; heritage language; language contact Turkish-German; orthographic word; orthography |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 21 |
| First page: | 251 |
| Last Page: | 271 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
