Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children

dc.authorid AKTAN-ERCIYES, ASLI/0000-0002-6531-6140
dc.authorscopusid 56033129600
dc.authorscopusid 57201681595
dc.authorscopusid 24080236600
dc.authorwosid Göksun, Tilbe/ABI-5133-2020
dc.authorwosid Ger, Ebru/HNI-3487-2023
dc.authorwosid Aktan Erciyes, Aslı/IWE-5157-2023
dc.contributor.author Aktan-Erciyes, Asli
dc.contributor.author Ger, Ebru
dc.contributor.author Goksun, Tilbe
dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-15T19:40:36Z
dc.date.available 2024-10-15T19:40:36Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.department Kadir Has University en_US
dc.department-temp [Aktan-Erciyes, Asli] Kadir Has Univ, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Ger, Ebru] Univ Bern, Bern, Switzerland; [Goksun, Tilbe] Koc Univ, Istanbul, Turkiye en_US
dc.description AKTAN-ERCIYES, ASLI/0000-0002-6531-6140 en_US
dc.description.abstract This study investigates the influences of early and intense L2 exposure on children's L1 causative verb production, assessed by an experimental causative verb production task. Turkish expresses causality by morphological and lexical means, whereas English does so by periphrastic and lexical means. Learning L2 English might enhance L1 Turkish causative verb production by highlighting the parallels and contrasts in causal expressions between the languages, which may result in an enriched L1 causative use. Five-, 7 -, and 9-year-old L1-Turkish L2-English bilingual (n = 80) and L1-Turkish monolingual (n = 80) children participated in the study in L1-Turkish. Results indicated that language group differences only emerged for the use of morphological causative verbs in favor of 5-year-old bilinguals compared with monolingual peers. Age group differences occurred only for the monolingual group and only for morphological verbs. Specifically, monolingual 7- and 9-year-olds performed better than monolingual 5-year-olds. Causative verb-type differences were only seen for 5-year-old monolinguals, who performed better for lexical than morphological verbs; in contrast, 5-year-old bilinguals performed equally well on the two types of causatives, and better than 5-year-old monolinguals on morphological causatives. Overall, these findings indicate that learning an L2 with structural similarities and differences compared with L1 might enhance children's awareness and correct use of causal linguistic structures. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUEBITAK) [219K247] en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUEBITAK), with project number 219K247 granted to A.A.-E. en_US
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dc.identifier.doi 10.1177/01427237241264866
dc.identifier.endpage 492 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0142-7237
dc.identifier.issn 1740-2344
dc.identifier.issue 5 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85199772832
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q2
dc.identifier.startpage 474 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241264866
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/6383
dc.identifier.volume 44 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:001278031900001
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Sage Publications Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 2
dc.subject Bilingualism en_US
dc.subject causal language en_US
dc.subject causative verb en_US
dc.title Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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