Turkish stress: a review

Inkelas, Sharon; Orgun, Cemil Orhan

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“…The trochee is characterized by one stressed syllable followed by at least one relatively weaker syllable, while the iamb displays the opposite metric pattern, namely at least one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (Hayes, 1985). German and English provide examples of trochaic languages, while Turkish and French are iambic (Eisenberg, 1991; Inkelas and Orgun, 2003). …”

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“…Whereas German and English share rhythmic classification and metric preferences (Pike, 1945; Eisenberg, 1991; Cummins and Port, 1998), Turkish and German represent rather an interesting contrast when considering their respective rhythmic properties. While German is a stress-timed language with a metric preference for the trochee, Turkish is syllable-timed and uses the iamb as its default metric pattern (Eisenberg, 1991; Grabe and Low, 2002; Inkelas and Orgun, 2003; Nazzi and Ramus, 2003; Topbas, 2006; Höhle et al, 2009). …”

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Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German

Roncaglia-Denissen¹,

Schmidt-Kassow²,

Heine³

et al. 2013

Front. Psychol.

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As language rhythm relies partly on general acoustic properties, such as intensity and duration, mastering two languages with distinct rhythmic properties (i.e., stress position) may enhance musical rhythm perception. We investigated whether competence in a second language (L2) with different rhythmic properties than a L1 affects musical rhythm aptitude. Turkish early (TELG) and late learners (TLLG) of German were compared to German late L2 learners of English (GLE) regarding their musical rhythmic aptitude. While Turkish and German present distinct linguistic rhythm and metric properties, German and English are rather similar in this regard. To account for inter-individual differences, we measured participants' short-term and working memory (WM) capacity, melodic aptitude, and time they spent listening to music. Both groups of Turkish L2 learners of German perceived rhythmic variations significantly better than German L2 learners of English. No differences were found between early and late learners' performance. Our findings suggest that mastering two languages with different rhythmic properties enhances musical rhythm perception, providing further evidence of shared cognitive resources between language and music.

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Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German

Roncaglia-Denissen¹,

Schmidt-Kassow²,

Heine³

et al. 2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…The semantic relationship between the verbs derived with {-lA} and the corresponding bases is not completely predictable: This, however, should not be taken to mean that morphological conversion is not available to Turkish as a word-formation process at all. In the next section, following Inkelas & Orgun (2003), I will present instances of word-formation, specifically derivation of toponyms out of nominals, which can be analyzed by a zero-derivation analysis.…”

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“…However, this conclusion seems to be refuted by two other sets of data. Adopting Inkelas & Orgun's (2003) argument, I show that two sets of derived or non-derived words are converted into toponyms, and I argue that these two patterns can be claimed to involve zero affixes. The two zero affixes that are responsible for conversion are formally justified by the existence of their overt analogues.…”

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Conversion in Turkish: An overview

Bagriacik

2018

Word Structure

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This paper presents an overview of possible cases of conversion in Turkish. I argue that apparent cases of conversion between nouns and adjectives are cases of syntactic transposition, and apparent cases of conversion between nouns/adjectives and verbs are end products of phonological changes in the history of the language, which resulted in pairs of lexemes that are formally identical synchronically, but not historically. This does not mean that no cases of morphological conversion can be traced in the language. I will present two cases of secondary word-class conversion from derived, inflected and uninflected words to toponyms which might be taken as instances of morphological conversion or derivation by zero affixation.

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“…First of all, it would add additional machinery (see also Inkelas & Orgun 2003), as pre-stressing and stressed exceptional suffixes would be treated differently, despite the fact that there is good evidence for the two types of affixes to be treated in a unified manner, as both seem to be trochaic. Rather, their analysis predicts that there will be no stress, primary or secondary, after the first pre-stressing suffix.…”

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Prosodic faithfulness to foot edges: the case of Turkish stress

Özçelik

2014

Phonology

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This paper presents a novel approach to capturing exceptional stress that relies on prespecification of foot edges in the input. Focusing on Turkish, this approach accounts for both regular and exceptional stress in a unified manner and within a single grammar, and unlike other approaches, does not overpredict. On this account, Turkish is a footless, but trochaic, language. Both regular and exceptional Turkish morphemes are subject to the same constraint ranking ; exceptional morphemes are different only in that they have one or more syllables already footed in the input, although the type of foot (e.g. trochaicity, binarity) is determined by the constraints of the grammar. As regular morphemes vacuously satisfy these constraints (which act on the foot), trochees appear on the surface only if there is an input foot available (i.e. in words with exceptional morphemes), since the grammar itself has no apparatus to parse syllables into feet.I would like to express my deepest thanks to Heather Goad, Glyne Piggott, Michael Wagner, Lydia White and the audience at NELS 40 for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Heather Goad, in particular, has provided many ideas, support and guidance for this project, for which I am extremely grateful. I would also like to thank the three anonymous reviewers of Phonology, as well as the associate editor, for their helpful comments and suggestions. *

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Turkish stress: a review

Cited by 55 publications

References 26 publications

Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German

Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German

Conversion in Turkish: An overview

Prosodic faithfulness to foot edges: the case of Turkish stress

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