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Vrije Universiteit Brussel | VUB · Centre for Linguistics (CLIN)

Introduction: Due to the heterogeneity in language trajectories and differences in language exposure, a lot of bilingual children could use extra support for the acquisition of the school language to reduce the risk of language problems and learning difficulties. Enhancing bilingual children's narrative abilities in the school language could be an...

This study explores the effect of different family compositions formed as a result of marriage patterns in today’s Turkish immigrant community in Flanders on family language policies. Based on in-depth interviews with 26 families, grouped in three different family compositions (mixed-marriages, local intra-ethnic marriages and marriages through par...

In this paper, "Turkish language and Turkish culture classes" in Belgium are chronologically presented from past to present and through the facing challenges and problems, a case study was conducted. Furthermore, an integrated model is presented to address the problem of suspended and ill-structured Turkish classes in the Flemish region. After 30 J...

This study examines the Dutch intelligibility of a group of monolingual Dutch and bilingual Turkish-Dutch preschool children in Flanders, as rated by native Dutch listeners and measured by a Dutch intelligibility test. The intelligibility of the bilingual children is compared to that of the monolingual Dutch children, in order to examine whether ag...

Aims and objectives The study investigates the effects of family background and language exposure on the language abilities of Turkish-Dutch bilingual children in their heritage language, Turkish, as well as in the majority language, Dutch. Methodology Thirty-five children (3;01-6;11) participated in the study. All children took two standardized p...

Introduction: In the current literature, there is a well-established necessity for the improvement of bilingual language diagnostics. Nowadays, the majority of clinicians in Belgium still rely on standardized tests with monolingual norm samples. It is therefore fundamental to have a detailed knowledge of the performance of bilingual children on th...

This paper aims to test the reliability and validity of the Turkish adaptation of DeBaryshe and Binder's Parent Reading Belief Inventory (PRBI) and to investigate parents' literacy beliefs. The primary focus of this paper is to explore parents’ beliefs and practices and their relatedness on the emergent literacy of their children aged 3–7 (M=69.8 m...

Nouns and verbs are considered as fundamental categories of lexical development, and there are contradicting views on the order of the acquisition. One view claims that nouns are acquired earlier than verbs and this primacy of nouns can be attributed to perceptual-conceptual constraints from a linguistic point of view, on the other hand, nouns and...

Previous research has shown that cross-linguistically relative clauses are acquired late and are considered as a signal of linguistic complexity. This study adapts a usage-based account of relative clause acquisition in Turkish. A corpus based on three databases including 170 recordings of naturalistic mother-child interaction was analysed. The age...

Previous research has shown that cross-linguistically relative clauses are acquired late and are considered as a signal of linguistic complexity. This study adapts a usage-based account of relative clause acquisition in Turkish. A corpus based on three databases including 170 recordings of naturalistic mother-child interaction was analysed. The age...

The main goal of this article is to study the respective role of language typology and context on the noun to verb asymmetry in caregiver speech. The speech of 20 French- and 20 Turkish-speaking mothers addressed to their children in two different situations (book-reading and toy-play) were analysed in terms of noun to verb ratio as well as in term...

The focus of this research is Turkish immigrants' language use-preference and language attitudes towards their first language, Turkish, in terms of intergenerational differences in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium. Borrowing the procedure by Yagmur and van de Vijver (2012), 136 participants were given "The Language Use, Choice and Preference Sc...

This study aims to find out what the literacy beliefs of parents who have children at the pre-school education period. The sample of the study is composed of 374 family members with children between the ages of 4 and 6, in the academic year of 2010-2011. As the data collection tools in this study, the Parent Reading Belief Inventory (PRBI), the Inv...

Les recherches translinguistiques sur le développement du lexique chez l’enfant dégagent des similitudes dans la trajectoire et la composition du vocabulaire durant la deuxième année de vie de l’enfant. Un des faits observés chez la plupart des enfants est une plus grande utilisation des noms (biais nominal) par rapport aux autres catégories lexica...

ZET Bu araştırma, Türkçeyi anadil olarak edinen çocukların erken dönem sözcük dağarcıklarının yapısındaki genel gelişimsel değişimleri incelemektedir. Buna ek olarak, bu değişimleri çocukların bireysel dil gelişim farklılıklarını dikkate alarak tartışmakta temel amaçlardandır. Dil ve bilişsel gelişimi birbiri ile ilişkilendirme yaklaşımı, bu çalışm...