Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Acquisition/processing of morphology, syntax and semantics
5. Sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony 29
6. Turkish children’s early vocabulary 57
7. Acquisition of canonical and non-canonical word orders in L1 Turkish 79
8. What does online parsing in Turkish-speaking children reveal about grammar? 99
9. Acquisition of scope relations by Turkish-English bilingual children 119
10. Part II. Discourse
11. Children’s referential choices in Turkish 153
12. Learning to think, talk, and gesture about motion in language-specific ways 177
13. Scene-setting and referent introduction in sign and spoken languages 193
14. Part III. Literacy development
15. Integrating cognitive and sociocultural aspects of reading in Turkish 223
16. Phonological awareness in reading acquisition 243
17. Part IV. Typical vs. Atypical development in monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children
18. Vocabulary and grammar acquisition in Turkish as assessed by the Turkish communicative development inventory 275
19. Language impairment in Turkish-speaking children 295
20. Language development in Turkish-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorders 325
21. Verbal functional categories in the speech of a Turkish speaking child with autism 341
22. L2 children do not fluctuate 361
23. Second language exposure in the preschool 389
24. Index 413