Enis Oğuz (Istanbul University) and Duygu Özge have a new paper titled "A Developmental Study on Turkish Connectives" in Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi.

https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.698824

Abstract: Connectives present an interesting phenomenon; while even 3-year-olds can produce them accurately, the real mastery of understanding their meaning takes much time in language acquisition. We tested the comprehension of temporal, causal, and adversative connectives in 184 Turkish-speaking primary-school children and 20 Turkish-speaking adults. Our results demonstrated that high-achieving 5-graders show an adult-like performance. Regarding the type of the connective, temporal connectives posed greater challenge for children compared to causal and adversative connectives. We explain these results in light of the multi-dimensional account of connective acquisition. 

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Duygu Özge, Müzeyyen Çiyiltepe (İstinye University) and Hasan Gürkan Tekman (Uludag University) have a new paper titled "Last-Acquired-First-Forgotten: Interpretation of Turkish Relative Clauses in Typically Developing Children and Adults with Broca's Aphasia" in Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi.

https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.696304

Abstract: The present study addresses whether adults with Broca's aphasia who have damage in their Posterior Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus (PLIFG) show similar performance to typically developing children in their processing of complex syntax. We tested comprehension of Turkish relative clauses using a sentence-picture matching task in Broca's patients and children with typical development (aged: 3;04-4;03). Both groups showed better performance in subject relative clauses compared to object relative clauses. Children's similar performance to Broca's patients might be due to the fact that PLIFG is a late-maturing neural region. Our participants had more errors in object relative clauses despite the first referent was the agent so there was no evidence for the agent-first strategy. Poor performance in object relative clauses was linked to the morphosyntactic complexity in these structures