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Do older bilinguals tell better stories?

Yetişkin iki dilliler daha iyi öykü anlatıcıları mıdır?

Pages
281–293
Publication Date
2022-10-19
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The findings obtained on each of the measures showed increase in fluency and informative content, yeta fluctuation in cohesion across age.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Efforts to understand changes in language development and variations in language production across lifespan haveincreased considerably in the past several decades (Sankoff, 2017).
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Key Findings & Data:This case study attemptsto investigateage-related changes in narrative speech produced by 6 bilinguals aged between 6 and 53 years in L3-English.
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Conclusion & Impact:The findings obtained on each of the measures showed increase in fluency and informative content, yeta fluctuation in cohesion across age.
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Abstract

Efforts to understand changes in language development and variations in language production across lifespan haveincreased considerably in the past several decades (Sankoff, 2017). In narrative discourse production, althoughseveral studies have reported age-related differences, the findings are not consistent. Additionally, previousresearch has investigated age-related changes in discourse production either with monolingual participants or withbilingual participants cross-linguistically in their first and second languages. This case study attemptsto investigateage-related changes in narrative speech produced by 6 bilinguals aged between 6 and 53 years in L3-English. Thenarratives produced by the participants were analyzed with respect to quantity, informative content and narrativecohesion. The findings obtained on each of the measures showed increase in fluency and informative content, yeta fluctuation in cohesion across age.

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Dil gelişimindeki değişimleri ve dil üretimindeki farklılıkları anlamaya yönelik çabalar geçtiğimiz birkaç on yılda önemli ölçüde artmıştır (Sankoff, 2017). Biliş üzerine yapılan çalışmalar, dil üretiminde yaşa bağlı farklılıkların gözlemlendiğine dair yeterli kanıt sağlamış olmakla birlikte (Birdsong, 2006), iki dilli bireyler üzerine yapılan çalışmalar, edinilen diller arasında iki yönlü bir etkileşim olduğunu (Kroll & Bialystok, 2013) ve iki dilli bireylerin tek dilli bireylere oranla yönetsel yetkinlik ağlarını daha etkin kullandıklarını göstermiştir (Costa, Hernández & Sebastián-Gallés, 2008). Bu vaka çalışması, 6 ila 53 yaş arasındaki altı iki dilli bireyin anlatısal metin üretiminde yaşa bağlı değişiklikleri araştırmaktadır. Katılımcıların ürettikleri anlatılar nicelik, bilgilendirici içerik ve anlatı tutarlılığı açısından analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular akıcılık ve bilgilendirici içerikte yaşa bağlı artış olmasına rağmen, tutarlılığın dalgalandığını göstermiştir.

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EFEOĞLU, G., YÜKSEL, H. G., CELEN, K. M. (2022). Do older bilinguals tell better stories?. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Cilt: 14 - Sayı: 3, 281–293. https://ajindex.com/articles/564064

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