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- Title
LEXICAL INNOVATIONS IN TURKISH.
- Authors
BAL, Özden AKYOL; SOFU, Hatice
- Abstract
Lexical innovations are used when there is no conventional term for a specific object or event, or when speakers do not remember conventional terms (Clark, 1991). In such cases, children use the options for lexical innovations in the course of acquisition. Three devices are noted for lexical innovations, namely, compounding, derivation, and conversion. Clark and her colleagues (1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, Clark & Hecht 1982, Clark, Hecht & Mulford 1986) propose two main principles for lexical innovations which are simplicity of form and semantic transparency in addition to productivity, conventionality and contrast. This study aims to find the occurrences of lexical innovations in spontaneous speech samples of Turkish speaking children and see if these principles are also valid for Turkish. Aksu's cross-sectional data on Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) corpus in 4-months intervals from 33 children aged between 2;0 and 4;8 were analyzed. Findings were interpreted for different types of innovations, word formation strategies, and lexical innovations over time. The results showed that, first, children produced more innovations in the category of nouns than verbs. Second, three categories emerged in addition to compounding and derivation, which are characteristic expression, substitution, and made-up word. Lastly, compounding emerged earlier (2;4) than derivation (2;8) in Turkish which was interpreted as a supporting finding for the principles of simplicity of form, and semantic transparency.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; LEXICOGRAPHY in literature; TURKISH literature; SEMANTICS; TURKISH language; VERBS
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 3, p79
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article