(1) ayakkabılarını giysene (2) hadi, giy ayakkabılarını! Adult-to-child talk (1) ayakkabılarını giysene (2) hadi, giy ayakkabılarını! (3) ayakkabılarını geçir ayağına da sokağa çıkalım
A father is trying to prompt the memory of a child at 2;3 1) Who did we see when we went out shopping today? (2) Who did we see? (3) Who did we see in the store? (4) Who did we see today? (5) When we went shopping, who did we see?
constant intention across successive utterances Variation Set constant intention across successive utterances (1) lexical substitution and rephrasing (2) addition and deletion of specific reference (3) reordering
Turkish variation set 1) Bana odandan bi tane bebek getirebilirmisin? 2) getir 3) getir bebeğini
Two corpora
Verbs: What varies? (1) Ver ellerini (2) Ellerini verirmisin? (3) Ellerini ver. in about 80% of variation sets, the verb is repeated in more than one utterance repeated verbs change morphological form in 43% of the cases in about 40% of such utterances, the verb changes position
Nouns, on the other hand... repeated nouns change morphological form in 26% of the variation sets get repeated across successive utterances in about 50% of the time
So... verbs seem to be more central and more stable elements of Turkish child-directed speech nouns, on the other hand, are transient linguistic classes that move in and out of verbal frames
Next 4 classes May 20, 11-12:15, at SOS 143 (toplantı odası)– read Hoff 2006 May 24, Matthews et al. AND Bahtiyar et al. May 26, Küntay & Özyürek AND Arnold et al. May 27 or May 28, your presentations