Role of Structural Priming in Contact-Induced Change: Subject Pronoun Expression in NL-Turkish

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dc.contributor.advisorBackus, A.M.
dc.contributor.advisorKootstra, G.J.
dc.contributor.authorSodaci, H.
dc.date.issued2018-08-31
dc.description.abstractSubject pronoun expression has been thoroughly studied for effects of language contact, but it is fairly recent that these studies started including cross-linguistic structural priming paradigms. In a structural priming experiment, we investigated the on-going change in subject pronoun use in Turkish spoken in the Netherlands in both monolingual and bilingual settings. 28 Turkish-Dutch bilinguals listened to stories which primed them with a Turkish sentence containing either a null or an overt subject pronoun. After each story-prime pair, they provided a response in Turkish as if they were directly talking to an interlocutor from the story. A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis revealed that overt subject pronouns were more likely to be used in the bilingual setting following a prime sentence with an overt than a null pronoun. Our findings strengthen the empirical basis of how structural priming influences syntactic choices in language contact settings.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/6194
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.thesis.facultyFaculteit der Letterenen_US
dc.thesis.specialisationResearchmaster Language and Communicationen_US
dc.thesis.studyprogrammeResearchmastersen_US
dc.thesis.typeResearchmasteren_US
dc.titleRole of Structural Priming in Contact-Induced Change: Subject Pronoun Expression in NL-Turkishen_US
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