• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Identity in Turkish Newspapers 

      Shahla Morsalı (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
      This study aimed to analyze gender identity in Turkish media context as presented in three Turkish newspapers: Hürriyet, Sözcü, and Yeni Akit from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. It employed Fairclough’s three ...
    • 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 ...
    • Gender Representation in Central Anatolian Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Folk Tales 

      Türkyılmaz, Hanım (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-12-14)
      This study aims to investigate how gender ideology is constructed in selected Anatolian Folk Tales: Helvacı Güzeli, Keçeli Kız, Erkek Kılığına Giren Kız, Kız Çocuklarını Sevmeyen İki Padişah and Yaşlı Adam ve Kızları. This ...
    • A Sociopragmatic Study on Turkish Native Speakers’ Condolence Speech Acts 

      Gümüş, Nisan Ece (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      This study explores the speech acts of condolences in Turkish uttered in response to death announcements on Facebook. Methodologically, the first step of this study comprises the analysis of the condolences in Turkish ...
    • Context Type Effects on Attachment Preferences in Disambiguating Turkish Relative Clauses 

      Aydın, Yasemin (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-02-15)
      In psycholinguistics, for understanding the processing and comprehension of sentences, relative clause structures are widely studied. Because of their complex structures, relative clauses allow researchers to derive ...