• Animacy Effect on Turkish Object Relative Clause Production among Young Adult Native Speakers of Turkish 

      Uzunca, Aybüke (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
      This study investigates animacy influence on Turkish RC formation and its consistency in different tasks/contexts. Meanwhile, the interference of semantic (e.g. frequency) and syntactic variables (e.g. structural difficulty) ...
    • Motion Predicates In Turkish: A Morpho-Syntactic Treatment 

      Topraksoy, Abdullah (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
      Research on space and language has had fruitful outcomes in the last decades. One of the related domains of study is motion itself, which is central to our experience. Although the work on the semantic analysis of motion ...
    • Plant-Themed Metaphors In Turkısh Proverbs: A Cognıtıve Approach 

      Yurtseven Akış, Nihansu (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-02)
      Plants play an unneglectable role in human-life; therefore, they are among the most used concrete items that the human mind takes advantage of while understanding abstract concepts. The aim is to find out how Turkish people ...
    • Processing of preverbal scrambling in Turkish 

      Önem, Engin Evrim (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
      This psycholinguistic study aims to find out the effects of scrambling in processing and perception of congruency in Turkish sentences. In line with this aim, another purpose of the present study is to find out whether ...
    • Reference Tracking In Children’s Story Books In Turkish 

      Aydoğan, Ali (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
      This study investigates the reference tracking strategies used in children’s story books in Turkish and aims to find out how referring expressions – noun phrases, overt pronouns and zero pronouns – in subject position are ...
    • Turkish Verbal Irony Comprehension in Children Aged 5 and 6 Years 

      Bodur, Sena Gizem (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-05-11)
      This study aims to investigate the accuracy rate of the comprehension and processing times of ironic and literal utterances among five- and six-year-old Turkish-speaking children (N = 60) and a control group of adults (N ...