PROCESSING OF CAUSAL AND CONCESSIVE CONNECTIVES IN CHILDREN

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This thesis aims to investigate how children integrate causal and concessive coherence markers. A visual world eye-tracking study was devised to investigate children’s looks to pictures of objects in different connective conditions. Interpretation of a concessive connector (ama) and a causal connector (bu yüzden) was tested. Sentences were manipulated by both types of connectors, connector type as a within-subject factor. While seeing two images on the screen, participants listened to spoken utterances made of a context phrase with a critical adjective (e.g., sweet) and a result sentence with a connector (e.g., pepper and chocolate for the adjective sweet). The gaze patterns of the participants after they heard the connector were examined. This was followed by a comprehension question asking the child to choose the correct picture. The proportion of looks indicated that both adults and children looked more at the target image after hearing the connector. However, according to accuracy scores children performed more poorly compared to adults. Moreover, children performed worse in concessive condition compared to causal condition. The results may propose that children understand the connective meaning incrementally as adults do. However, it may be difficult for them to use this meaning to make inferences online. The reason why children could not use concessive connectors to make reasoning might be related to their developing executive function abilities.

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Psycholinguistics, Discourse Connectors, Predictive Language Processing, Language Development, Eye Tracking

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99565

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. Günay, “PROCESSING OF CAUSAL AND CONCESSIVE CONNECTIVES IN CHILDREN,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2022.