Turkish in contact with German: Language maintenance and loss among immigrant children in Berlin (West)

Pfaff, Carol W.

doi:10.1515/ijsl.1991.90.97

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“…It has been known since at least the 1980s that Turkish as spoken in Europe by immigrant children from Turkey differs from Turkish as spoken in Turkey with respect to a range of morphosyntactic and lexical features (Boeschoten, 1990; Fritsche, 1982; Pfaff, 1991; Rehbein, 1987; Schaufeli, 1991; Verhoeven & Boeschoten, 1986). Recently, the focus has shifted from the analysis of morphosyntactic features to the use of fixed combinations of words, in line with recent developments in SLA where such combinations, often called formulaic sequences (Wray, 2002) or multiword items, are receiving a lot of attention.…”

Section: Conventional Patterns In Turkish As Spoken In Europe: the Camentioning

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Ultimate attainment in the use of collocations among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany and Turkish–German returnees

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In this paper we show that heritage speakers and returnees are fundamentally different from the majority of adult second language learners with respect to their use of collocations (Laufer & Waldman, 2011). We compare the use of lexical collocations involving yap-"do" and et-"do" among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany (n=45) with those found among Turkish returnees (n=65) and Turkish monolinguals (n=69). Language use by returnees is an understudied resource although this group can provide crucial insights into the specific language ability of heritage speakers. Results show that returnees who had been back for one year avoid collocations with yap-and use some hypercorrect forms in et-, whilst returnees who had been back for seven years upon recording produce collocations that are quantitatively and qualitatively similar to those of monolingual speakers of Turkish. We discuss implications for theories of ultimate attainment and incomplete acquisition in heritage speakers.

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Section: Conventional Patterns In Turkish As Spoken In Europe: the Camentioning

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Ultimate attainment in the use of collocations among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany and Turkish–German returnees

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“…"With respect to the acquisition of ethnic community languages it is clear that the submersion in a second language environment may result in stagnation (Verhoeven 1991a,b;Verhoeven and Boeschoten 1986;De Ruiter 1991;Pfaff 1991). Due to restricted first language input, ethnic minority children may have a lower level of mother-tongue competence.…”

Section: Heritage Speakers As Child Bilingualsmentioning

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Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges Reply to peer commentaries

Benmamoun

Montrul

Polinsky

2013

Theoretical Linguistics

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“…From the work of many researchers working on bilingualism it is known that Turkish as spoken by Turkish people who grew up in Europe differs from Turkish as spoken in Turkey. Because of concerns for the difficult position of Turkish children in mainstream education in Western Europe, a considerable number of studies focus on Turkish spoken by pre-school children and primary school children of the second or even the third generation (Verhoeven & Boeschoten 1986;Rehbein 1987;Boeschoten 1990;Pfaff 1991Pfaff & 1994Schaufeli 1991, Preibusch 1992Karasu 1995), and on comparisons between the Turkish of these children and those who grow up in Turkey. Less is known about the Turkish proficiency of Turkish adolescents and young adults who grow up in Europe (Boeschoten 1992;Menz 1994Auer & Dirim 2000).…”

Section: The Development Of Western European Varieties Of Turkishmentioning

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(In)Complete Acquisition of Turkish Among Turkish–German Bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: An Analysis of Complex Embeddings in Narratives

Treffers‐Daller

Özsoy

Hout

2007

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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Although most researchers recognise that the language repertoire of bilinguals can vary, few studies have tried to address variation in bilingual competence in any detail. This study aims to take a first step towards further understanding of the way in which bilingual competencies can vary at the level of syntax by comparing the use of syntactic embeddings among three different groups of Turkish-German bilinguals. The approach of the present article is new in that different groups of bilinguals are compared with each other, and not only with monolingual speakers, as is common in most studies in the field. The analysis focuses on differences in the use of different types of embeddings in Turkish, which are generally considered to be one of the more complex aspects of Turkish grammar. The study shows that young Turkish-German bilingual adults who were born and raised in Germany use fewer, and less complex embeddings than Turkish-German bilingual returnees who had lived in Turkey for eight years at the time of recording. The present study provides new insights in the nature of bilingual competence, as well as a new perspective on syntactic change in immigrant Turkish as spoken in Europe.

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Turkish in contact with German: Language maintenance and loss among immigrant children in Berlin (West)

Cited by 60 publications

References 7 publications

Ultimate attainment in the use of collocations among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany and Turkish–German returnees

Ultimate attainment in the use of collocations among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany and Turkish–German returnees

Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges Reply to peer commentaries

(In)Complete Acquisition of Turkish Among Turkish–German Bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: An Analysis of Complex Embeddings in Narratives

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