Variable /r/ deletion in word final position has been explored in several languages such as English and different dialects of Spanish. This study will investigate /r/ deletion in Turkish, an Altaic language that belongs to Ural-Altaic languages family. Specifically, the purpose …
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This study explores and analyzes late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman-Turkish novels which were shaped by the political and social transformations of the Ottoman Empire at the time, and reveals a pattern in the formation of male identities. The novel form was introduced to T…
It has been found that when students learn new languages, certain aspects of their native language can transfer to their L2 in usage and the L2 may alter the usage of the native language. One method used to examine the possibility of transfers between languages, or compare langu…
The Kurdish people have historically occupied the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey. Since 1923 the Kurdish question is still the most serious internal issue in the Turkish republic's eighty-eight year history. Undoubtedly, one of the main obstacles for the Kurds in Tur…
This thesis investigates the representation and acquisition of word-level stress in Turkish. Two general proposals are made in the thesis, one related to formal phonology, the other about second language (L2) acquisition of word-level prosody. The first proposes that the presenc…
This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…
The cross sectional study investigated the association of tobacco smoke, vitamin D status, anthropometric parameters, and kidney function in Turkish immigrants with type 2 diabetes (T2D) living in the Netherlands. Study sample included a total of 110 participants aged 30 years a…
This thesis investigates the functional categories in the vP domain, including aspect, modality, and focus. For this research initiative, five constructions were examined: the Mandarin temporal adverbial, the Mandarin excessive tā, the Mandarin dé/bù , the Turkish question parti…
The main purpose of this study is to see the extent to which Turkish Echo Questions (EQ) are on a par with English EQs. A detailed English EQs analysis of Sobin (2010) is presented in the study as a backdrop to the main discussion. What follows it is the parsing of the data in T…
Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of litterateurs? Focusing on the last decades of the nineteenth ce…
This dissertation investigates the semantic and pragmatic characterization of the evidential morphology in Turkish. That evidentials are parasitic to tense/aspect morphology is well noted (Izvroski 1997, Matthewson et al. 2007 a.o.), and the traditional literature describes the …
The structure and content of Carlo Domeniconi's Variations on an Anatolian Folk Song and Koyunbaba are heavily influenced by Turkish folk music. A stylistic and accurate performance of these pieces becomes possible through the study of Turkish folk music and its performance prac…
This dissertation is an analysis of two types of nominal compounds in Turkish, primary compounds and synthetic compounds within the framework of Distributed Morphology. A nominal primary compound is formed by two nouns, and its meaning is largely determined by world knowledge. A…
Narrative rhythm is the process of patterning through which the reader enacts the text. In contemporary novels, rhythm involves primarily four things: (1) the cadences of words and phrases, (2) the representation of time (3) changes of perspective and (4) the thematization of "h…
This dissertation investigates the evidence for shift-induced interference in the case-marking system of Turkic languages. Through comparative analysis, it demonstrates that the range of meanings and functions expressed by case markers in modern Turkic languages, such as Uzbek, …
This study is an empirical demonstration of the interplay between self and selfobjects, as postulated by Heinz Kohut in his theory of personality. In this study, the concept of "self" refers to levels of healthy and defensive narcissism, and "selfobjects" refer to the people and…
This thesis explored the hypothesis that speech directed to preverbal infants contains statistical, phonological, and acoustic cues that are collectively sufficient to predict membership of individual words in two rudimentary grammatical categories--content words (CW) and functi…
This dissertation investigates the interaction between case and referentiality in syntax and the role of such an interaction on phrase structure. It proposes that the two conditions introduced independently in the literature for argumenthood, i.e., case-assignment for visibility…
From an anthropologist's (Maddock, 1981) point of view, "science and science education are cultural enterprises which form a part of the wider cultural matrix of society and educational considerations concerning science must be made in the light of this wider perspective" (p.10)…