Fatih Bayram

Fatih Bayram
UiT The Arctic University of Norway · Department of Language and Culture

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Fatih Bayram is currently a Senior Researcher (Forsker) at the Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Fatih does research in Bi/Multilingualism, Heritage Speaker Bilingualism, Morphosyntax and Psycholinguistics. Coeditor of Studies in Bilingualism (John Benjamins)
Additional affiliations
August 2018 - March 2021
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Position
  • PostDoc Position
February 2016 - August 2018
University of Reading
Position
  • PostDoc Position
February 2018 - July 2018
University of Portsmouth
Position
  • Research Associate
Education
September 2009 - May 2013
Newcastle University
Field of study
  • Applied Linguistics
September 2008 - September 2009
Newcastle University
Field of study
  • Applied Linguistics

Publications

Publications (41)
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Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from end-state data. In an effort to address this issue, we examine HSs of Turkish in Germany at an early age of development (10–15 years old, n = 22), as well as age-matche...
Book
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The breadth of coverage...
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Herein, we provide counterargumentation to some of Domínguez, Hicks, and Slabakova's claims that the term incomplete acquisition is conceptually necessary on theoretical grounds for describing the outcome grammars of heritage language bilingualism. Specifically, we clarify their claim that previous challenging of the term in our and others’ work is...
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This chapter contextualizes the methodological landscape of formal linguistic heritage language studies, with a special emphasis on emerging, innovative trends. The chapter is divided in three parts. Part 1 reviews methodological challenges related to testing heritage speaker knowledge (e.g., modality of testing, issues pertaining to baselines) as...
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Using a causal inference approach, we explored the relationships among the language experience determinants of morphosyntactic sensitivity, to identify the factors that indirectly and directly cause its acquisition or maintenance in immigration contexts. We probed the sensitivity to Serbian/Bosnian clitic placement violations with a self-paced list...
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Mandarin sortal classifiers simultaneously encode semantic and grammatical form class cues. Building on a second language (L2) study of Grüter et al. we used the same visual world eye-tracking experiment, designed to examine the relative use of the two cues, testing Mandarin heritage speakers (HSs) living in an English-speaking environment. Given t...
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Using the causal inference approach, we explored the causal relationships among the language experience determinants of morphosyntactic sensitivity, to identify the factors that indirectly and directly cause its acquisition or maintenance in immigration contexts. We probed the sensitivity to Serbian/Bosnian clitic placement violations with a self-p...
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Cross-linguistic Influence in adult multilingualism. A study examining the role of English as a second language (L2) in the acquisition of L3 Norwegian by Italian native speakers (L1).
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Introduction This study investigates the heritage language performance of Turkish-German returnees upon their reintegration into Turkey and explores the impact of external factors on their proficiency in the (re-)activated heritage language (HL). Methods Data collection involved the participation of 28 Turkish heritage speakers and a control group...
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Individual variation in heritage language (HL) outcomes does not seem to be random. Instead, this variation can be related to the specific exposure and use patterns heritage speakers (HSs) have with their languages in the contexts they reside. In this study, we present data from 38 child HSs of Persian in English dominant contexts (in New Zealand a...
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Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across several subdisciplines including linguistics, deve...
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There are various data collection methods and tools that researchers use to study the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension and production. The commonly used methods and tools are eye-tracking, self- paced reading, elicited production, judgment tasks, and neuroimaging. Although not commonly used, the repetition tasks has also been...
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Introduction There exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the “methods turn” and individual differences focus in (heritage) bilingualism by proposing a comprehensive online questionnaire building on existing questionnaires and the experience...
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IntroductionThere exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the “methods turn” and individual differences focus in (heritage) bilingualism by proposing a comprehensive online questionnaire building on existing questionnaires and the experience...
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Herein, we contextualize, problematize, and offer some insights for moving beyond the problem of monolingual comparative normativity in (psycho) linguistic research on bilin-gualism. We argue that, in the vast majority of cases, juxtaposing (functional) monolin-guals to bilinguals fails to offer what the comparison is supposedly intended to do: mee...
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This chapter contextualizes the methodological landscape of formal linguistic heritage language studies, with an emphasis on emerging, innovative trends using online methods (e.g., eye-tracking, EEG/ERP) and statistical methods modeling the dynamic relationship between outcome measures and extra-linguistic factors. Section 22.1 reviews methodologic...
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In this article, we discuss the perceptions of researchers who work on heritage language bilingualism (HLB), educators who teach heritage speakers (HSs), and, crucially, HSs themselves regarding the nature of bilingualism in general as well as HLB specifically. Despite the fact that all groups are invested in HLB and that researchers and educators...
Book
Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems that differ in interesting ways from dominant-native s...
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Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems that differ in interesting ways from dominant-native s...
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In heritage language (HL) bilingualism, recent work has focused on understanding the dynamic effects that different input types can have on heritage language development and outcomes (e.g., Bayram et al., 2017; Kupisch & Rothman, 2018; Polinsky, 2018; Putnam & Sanchez, 2013; Karayayla & Schmid, 2019). The underlying question is to what extent one’s...
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This chapter aims to underline the importance of bilingualism research from a formal linguistic perspective for second language pedagogy. In doing so, we highlight where the two fields of inquiry overlap with each other and offer insights into how language pedagogy can benefit from information gained by psycholinguistic studies on specific properti...
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This chapter contextualizes the methodological landscape of formal linguistic heritage language studies, with an emphasis on emerging, innovative trends using online methods (e.g., eye-tracking, EEG/ERP) and statistical methods modeling the dynamic relationship between outcome measures and extra-linguistic factors. Section 22.1 reviews methodologic...
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Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning - edited by John W. Schwieter
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This chapter provides an overview of the major contemporary trends driving adult, non-native language acquisition and processing research from a formal linguistic theory perspective. In doing so, we contextualize for the reader what formal linguistics is, inclusive of the main tenets of generative grammar. We provide an overview of the formative qu...
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This chapter contributes to the emerging literature on heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism, weighing in on the potential role that intra-generational attrition plays in changing the path of HS bilingual development. Previous work has generally documented HS ultimate attainment differences from that of monolingual speakers (despite both groups being...
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This study examines the role of language dominance (LD) on linguistic competence outcomes in two types of early bilinguals: (i) child L2 learners of Catalan (L1 Spanish-L2 Catalan and, (ii) child Spanish L2 learners (L1 Catalan-L2 Spanish). Most child L2 studies typically focus on the development of the languages during childhood and either focus o...
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This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The breadth of coverage...
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The main goal of this chapter is to provide a link between formal heritage language studies and heritage language pedagogy, two areas of research that, despite being highly relevant to each other, have traditionally been approached from very different perspectives. Studying and understanding the mental reality of heritage speaker (HS) grammars—its...
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This chapter discusses the case of Turkish as a heritage language in Germany, considering the factors affecting heritage language maintenance and education, including parental and institutional perspectives. We contextualize this within a brief review of the history of Turkish migration to Germany, highlighting the relationship between the challeng...
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The main goal of this chapter is to provide a link between formal heritage language studies and heritage language pedagogy, two areas of research that, despite being highly relevant to each other, have traditionally been approached from very different perspectives. To this end, we review the major issues and most significant findings in each subfie...
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This chapter discusses the case of Turkish as a heritage language in Germany, considering the factors affecting heritage language maintenance and education, including parental and institutional perspectives. We contextualize this within a brief review of the history of Turkish migration to Germany, highlighting the relationship between the challeng...
Conference Paper
This study focuses on how the choices made by language learners might change according to the linguistic environment they experience. The presentation includes: (1) a review of the evidence from previous experiments on structural priming in various forms of language; (2) a description of redundant structures and negotiation for meaning; and (3) a d...

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