Acquisition of the Word Order among Toddlers: Reflections from Turkish, Sesotho, Japanese, and Polish

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dc.contributor.authorEren, Ömer
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-06T21:04:00Z
dc.date.available2025-03-06T21:04:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentÇağ Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractWord order has been an interesting topic since systematic studies on language acquisition and the existence of linguistic principles in even radically different languages show the presence of innate constraints. Children are sensitive to the word order phenomena, and they correctly fix the value of the parameter by discovering the regularities of the language at a very early phase. Current studies mostly deal with strict word order languages like English and French. This study is intended to observe whether this basic order can be observed in languages with free word order among toddlers between 2:0 and 3:0 years old. Speech transcripts from Turkish, Sesotho, Japanese and Polish in the CHILDES database were examined, and findings show that toddlers speaking free word-order languages can make sentences with different word orders at those ages. The correct acquisition of word order in various languages that have radically different word order indicates that toddlers have an innate ability to overcome quite different syntactic properties of any language.
dc.identifier.endpage24
dc.identifier.issn1304-8392
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage14
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12507/2235
dc.identifier.volume20
dc.language.isotr
dc.publisherÇağ Üniversitesi
dc.relation.ispartofÇağ University Journal of Social Sciences
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_DergiPark_20250215
dc.subjectLanguage acquisition
dc.subjectword order
dc.subjectchild language
dc.subjectsyntactic
dc.subjectCHILDES
dc.titleAcquisition of the Word Order among Toddlers: Reflections from Turkish, Sesotho, Japanese, and Polish
dc.typeArticle

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