Processing Turkish center-embeddings :|an investigation of case interference and prosodic phrase lengths
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in English Language Education. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dinçtopal, Nazik. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bakay, Özge. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T12:08:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T12:08:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the processing difficulty associated with Turkish center-embeddings. Two off-line end-of-sentence acceptability judgment tasks (Experiments 1 and 2) and an eye-tracking experiment were conducted to examine (i) if the processing difficulty of Turkish center-embeddings is influenced by similarity-based interference (e.g., Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) and/or prosodic phrase lengths (Fodor, 2013), (ii) if missing-VP2 illusion (Frazier, 1985) exists in Turkish center-embeddings, and (iii) if the illusion (if it existed) is modulated by similarity-based interference and/or prosodic phrase lengths. The judgment tasks showed that contra the predictions of the similarity-based interference decreasing syntactic interference did not ease the processing difficulty of Turkish center-embeddings, but prosodic phrase lengths encouraging optimal phrasing of the sentence resulted in an easier processing of the construction. There was overall no missing-VP2 illusion in Turkish center-embeddings, but the illusion was observed in the sentences with decreased syntactic interference and discouraging phrase lengths, suggesting that missing-VP2 illusion may be cross-linguistic (Gibson & Thomas, 1999). The results from the eye-tracking experiment showed that decreasing syntactic interference and encouraging phrase lengths facilitated processing Turkish center-embeddings; phonological interference did not affect their processing difficulty, though. Overall, the findings supported the predictions of the similarity-based interference and prosodic phrase lengths accounts and extend them to Turkish. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | xiii, 294 leaves ; | |
| dc.identifier.other | FLED 2020 B35 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16621 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Turkish language -- Prosodic analysis. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Turkish language -- Sentences. | |
| dc.title | Processing Turkish center-embeddings :|an investigation of case interference and prosodic phrase lengths |
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