Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling

This study investigated whether the amount and types of nominalizing complements Turkish speaking mothers use in storytelling vary by their preschool children’s age. Eighty-five middle-class mothers narrated a wordless storybook to their children (36 to 72 months). Mothers’ story-related talk was co...

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Main Authors: Hande ILGAZ, Aslı ALTAN, Serap HAŞİMOĞLU ERTAŞ
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Language:English
Published: Dilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association) 2021-12-01
Series:Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1183611
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author Hande ILGAZ
Aslı ALTAN
Serap HAŞİMOĞLU ERTAŞ
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description This study investigated whether the amount and types of nominalizing complements Turkish speaking mothers use in storytelling vary by their preschool children’s age. Eighty-five middle-class mothers narrated a wordless storybook to their children (36 to 72 months). Mothers’ story-related talk was coded for complements formed with the nominalizing suffixes -mA, -mAK, -DIK, -(y)AcAK. These complement structures were then coded for whether they contained mental state verbs. Contrary to expectation, the results demonstrated no difference in mothers’ use of complementation by their children’s age. However, there were significant differences in suffix type. -mAK constructions were found to be the most frequently used complement type, followed by -DIK, -mA, and -(y)AcAK constructions. In addition, complement structures that contained a mental state verb as the complement verb were found to be the least frequent. The results show remarkable similarities with findings from the acquisition of complementation literature and are discussed in terms of their implications.
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spelling doaj-art-488465f6d7ff488c89827d81d007a3b62025-01-02T17:46:48ZengDilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392021-12-01323437010.18492/dad.762679Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in StorytellingHande ILGAZ0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2785-6717Aslı ALTAN1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6334-8632Serap HAŞİMOĞLU ERTAŞ2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6178-8047Bilkent UniversityIndependent ResearcherBilkent UniversityThis study investigated whether the amount and types of nominalizing complements Turkish speaking mothers use in storytelling vary by their preschool children’s age. Eighty-five middle-class mothers narrated a wordless storybook to their children (36 to 72 months). Mothers’ story-related talk was coded for complements formed with the nominalizing suffixes -mA, -mAK, -DIK, -(y)AcAK. These complement structures were then coded for whether they contained mental state verbs. Contrary to expectation, the results demonstrated no difference in mothers’ use of complementation by their children’s age. However, there were significant differences in suffix type. -mAK constructions were found to be the most frequently used complement type, followed by -DIK, -mA, and -(y)AcAK constructions. In addition, complement structures that contained a mental state verb as the complement verb were found to be the least frequent. The results show remarkable similarities with findings from the acquisition of complementation literature and are discussed in terms of their implications.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1183611nominalizing complementschild-directed speechmother-child storytellingcomplements with mental state verbspreschool children
spellingShingle Hande ILGAZ
Aslı ALTAN
Serap HAŞİMOĞLU ERTAŞ
Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
nominalizing complements
child-directed speech
mother-child storytelling
complements with mental state verbs
preschool children
title Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling
title_full Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling
title_fullStr Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling
title_full_unstemmed Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling
title_short Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling
title_sort turkish mothers use of complementation in storytelling
topic nominalizing complements
child-directed speech
mother-child storytelling
complements with mental state verbs
preschool children
url http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1183611
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