Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers

Kupisch, Tanja; Belikova, Alyona; Özçelik, Öner; Stangen, Ilse; White, Lydia

Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers

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2017

Authors

Kupisch, Tanja

Belikova, Alyona

Özçelik, Öner

Stangen, Ilse

White, Lydia

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Journal article

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Published

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Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism ; 7 (2017), 1. - pp. 1-32. - ISSN 1879-9264. - eISSN 1879-9272

Abstract

This paper reports on a study investigating restrictions on definiteness (the Definiteness Effect) in existential constructions in the two languages of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany. Turkish and German differ in how the Definiteness Effect plays out. Definite expressions in German may not occur in affirmative or negative existentials, whereas in Turkish the restriction applies only to affirmative existentials. Participants were adults and fell into two groups: simultaneous bilinguals (2L1) who acquired German before age 3 and early sequential bilinguals (2L1) who acquired German after age 4; there were also monolingual controls. The tasks involved acceptability judgments. Subjects were presented with contexts, each followed by a sentence to be judged, including grammatical and ungrammatical existentials. Results show that the bilinguals, regardless of age of acquisition, make judgments appropriate for each language. They reject definite expressions in negative existentials in German and accept them in Turkish, suggesting distinct grammars.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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KUPISCH, Tanja, Alyona BELIKOVA, Öner ÖZÇELIK, Ilse STANGEN, Lydia WHITE, 2017. Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers. In: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 7(1), pp. 1-32. ISSN 1879-9264. eISSN 1879-9272. Available under: doi: 10.1075/lab.13031.kup

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@article{Kupisch2017-03-03Restr-38666,
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  doi={10.1075/lab.13031.kup},
  title={Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers},
  number={1},
  volume={7},
  issn={1879-9264},
  journal={Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism},
  pages={1--32},
  author={Kupisch, Tanja and Belikova, Alyona and Özçelik, Öner and Stangen, Ilse and White, Lydia}
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