Orthographical, phonological, and morphological challenges in language processing: the case of bilingual Turkish-English speakers

Raman, Ilhan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1438-1062 and Yıldız, Yasemin (2019) Orthographical, phonological, and morphological challenges in language processing: the case of bilingual Turkish-English speakers. In: Applied Psycholinguistics and Multilingual Cognition in Human Creativity. Christiansen, Bryan and Turkina, Ekaterina, eds. IGI GLOBAL, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781522569923. [Book Section] (doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-6992-3.ch001)

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Abstract

The chapter examines the relationship between orthography, phonology, and morphology in Turkish and what this means for Turkish-English bilingual language processing. Turkish offers a unique language medium in pitching theoretical perspectives both in linguistics and psycholinguistics against each other because of its properties. Empirical and theoretical considerations are employed from both domains in order to shed light on some of the current challenges. In line with contemporary thought, this chapter is written with the view that bilingual speakers engage a singular language or lexical system characterized by fluid and dynamic processes. Particular focus will be given to English-Turkish speaking bilinguals in the UK, which includes heritage (HL) and non-heritage language speakers. Evidence from monolingual developmental research as well as neuropsychology will be examined to confirm findings of previous studies in other European contexts, and also to raise attention to various challenges which need to be addressed across all contexts.

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