The Acquisition of Aspect and Modality: The Case of Past Reference in Turkish

by Ayhan Aksu-Ko and Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Book Overview

Aksu-Ko 's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense forms the basis for this original and important contribution to the current debate among psycholinguists on the interrelationship between language and cognitive development. Turkish, in its grammar, makes a clear distinction between direct and indirect experience, separating personal observation of processes from both inference and narrative. This distinction thus provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521331196
• ISBN13: 9780521331197
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"