Cognate and Non-Cognate Lexical Access in Turkish of Bilingual and Monolingual 5 years-old Nursery School Children

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ID20495405
AuthorsMehmet Ali AKINCI (0000-0002-7077-4322, Université de Rouen Normandie, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue3
Pages89-113
Publication date2021-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1300-8552 • E-ISSN: 2587-0939
PublisherJournal of Linguistics Research (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18492/dad.779930
OpenAlexW4207018671
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

This study aims to characterize the development of French-Turkish bilingual children’s lexicon in order to better determine the nature of the difficulties they encounter as well as the specificities of their language use. In order to do this, 16 French-Turkish bilingual, 16 French monolingual and 20 Turkish monolingual 5 year-old nursery school children were asked to name pictures whose names are (i) cognates and (ii) non cognates in both languages. Our results reveal a high level of performance in cognate word recognition for French-Turkish bilinguals. This proves that these bilingual children knew these common words implicitly. On the one hand, this result questions the idea according to which a bilingual would not use words resulting from his L1 when he produces the word in his L2; and, on the other hand, it supports arguments in favor of the theory according to which both languages are activated for bilinguals even when using only one language

Cognate · Lexicon · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Second language · Turkish · Computer Science · French Language Learning Methods · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development

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