Information Structure Within Interfaces

Gürer, Aslı

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“…While overt case morphology provides flexibility of movement, both bare N and bir N objects have more restrictions, and their flexibility is more discourse-dependent. Recent research revealed that movement of bare objects is possible when certain discourse conditions are met (see, for example, Uygun 2006;Gürer 2020;Göksel 2013;Öztürk 2009;˙Işsever 2006;Gračanin-Yüksek and ˙Işsever 2011, among others). Examples in (5) and (6) show that bare N objects can move to the sentence-initial position for the purpose of topicalization and also to the postverbal position to establish a backgrounding reading of the object.…”

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Are Turkish Non-Case-Marked Objects with and without bir Interpreted and Acquired Differently?

Ketrez

2023

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Whether non-case-marked objects with and without the numeral bir in Turkish have the same structural properties or not has been a topic of discussion for decades. This study aims to contribute to this discussion with experimental data that compares the comprehension of these object types along with their accusative-marked indefinite counterparts in terms of their scope with respect to negation by four-, five-, and six-year-old children as well as adults. The results suggest that both non-case-marked objects with and without bir contrast with accusative-marked indefinite objects and have a narrow scope with respect to negation in adults’ speech. However, bir can still have a main effect on the interpretation of the objects, just like the accusative case, and unlike non-case-marked objects without bir, objects with bir may scope over negation. Children treat all object types alike at age four and distinguish objects with and without bir at age five. These findings are compatible with an account that assumes different structures for two types of non-case-marked objects.

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Are Turkish Non-Case-Marked Objects with and without bir Interpreted and Acquired Differently?

Ketrez

2023

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“…Aboutness topics differ from focus and contrastive topics in that they do not evoke alternatives. They can be discoursegiven (9) or discourse-new (10) and they mark what the rest of the sentence is about (Erkü, 1982;Erguvanlı, 1984;Hoffman, 1995;Gürer, 2015Gürer, , 2020 When there is an aboutness and a contrastive topic, the aboutness topic always precedes the contrastive topic as illustrated in the following example. 11 The final information packaging tool is discourse anaphoric phrases.…”

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“…The constituents of each sentence are chosen as lexically accented words composed of sonorant sounds to avoid perturbation in the pitch contour. 5 The target sentences were adapted from Gürer (2015Gürer ( , 2020. However, they are embedded in new contexts to trigger correct information packaging.…”

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https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/journal/tuded/article/divan-siirinde-gecen-musiki-istilahlarina-dair-genel-bir-tasnif-denemesi

Gürer¹

2020

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This study investigates prosodic marking of sentence initial aboutness topics and contrastive topics in Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order in Turkish under six different conditions within experimental and theoretical perspectives. Fundamental frequency (F 0 ) and duration values are the evaluation criteria of the study. The conditions illustrate aboutness and contrastive topics -discourse-new or discourse given -in different information packaging options. These conditions are compared with focus phrases under broad focus conditions. The data were collected from native speakers with the help of dialogues including the target sentences. The sentences, extracted from the recordings, were annotated via Praat (Boersma & Weenink, 2020). The results indicate that F 0 values at the right edge of the prenuclear domain and the nuclear domain are higher with topic phrases. Aboutness topics have higher values than contrastive topics. However, the statistical analysis indicates that this is not a categorical property when all six conditions are analyzed. Duration measurements of prenuclear, nuclear and postnuclear domains also do not differ under these six conditions. To conclude, Turkish aboutness and contrastive topics are marked with different syntactic and semantic tools, but they are not marked with a distinctive prosodic strategy and they do not differ from broad focus sentences.

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Information Structure Within Interfaces

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Are Turkish Non-Case-Marked Objects with and without bir Interpreted and Acquired Differently?

Are Turkish Non-Case-Marked Objects with and without bir Interpreted and Acquired Differently?

https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/journal/tuded/article/divan-siirinde-gecen-musiki-istilahlarina-dair-genel-bir-tasnif-denemesi

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