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  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Bilingualism Research

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  • Investigates cross-language morphological transfer in Turkish-English bilinguals.
  • Utilizes a similar-script morphological translation priming paradigm.
  • Focuses on highly proficient but unbalanced bilinguals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore cross-language morphological transfer mechanisms.
  • To determine the role of morphological and lexico-semantic relationships.
  • To examine the influence of age of second language acquisition.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Primed L2 English targets with affixed/nonaffixed L1 Turkish nonwords.
  • Experiment 2: Primed L2 English targets with translated/semantic/unrelated L1 Turkish nonwords.
  • Used noncognate stimuli with shared meaning but no form overlap.

Main Results:

  • Significant priming effects observed for both affixed and nonaffixed L1 nonwords.
  • Greater priming in the affixed condition compared to the nonaffixed condition.
  • Earlier age of L2 acquisition correlated with enhanced cross-language transfer.
  • Priming effects were specifically driven by lexico-semantic relationships, not semantic similarity alone.

Conclusions:

  • Cross-language morphological transfer occurs in Turkish-English bilinguals.
  • Both morphological structure and lexico-semantic links contribute to transfer.
  • Early L2 learning facilitates stronger cross-language morphological processing.