@article{2017,title={ACQUISITION OF VERBS AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURES IN TURKISH},abstractNode={This study aims to investigate how Turkish children analyze language input in the process of acquisition of verbs and argument structures in their first language. To this end, a task including 24 sentences was presented to 12 Turkish children whose ages range between 3,4 to 5,0. Out of these 24 sentences, 12 sentences included morphologically transitive verbs whereas the other 12 ones included lexically transitive verbs. Further, in the 12 sentences, objects of the verbs were presented with accusative case marker in different word orders. Moreover, the word order was intentionally modified in some sentences. The aim of the task was to elicit the sensitivity of Turkish children to causative morphology, accusative case marker, and word order in the acquisition of verbs and argument structures of Turkish. The results indicate that Turkish children use language-specific cues in the interpretation of verbs and their argument structures, which is causative morphology for Turkish. In addition, Turkish children appear to use semantic mechanism in order to interpret the argument structures of verbs in sentences with modified word order. All of these results support the view of Tomasello (1992) as children seem to acquire verbs and argument structures without the presence of innate ability, but through the interaction with input.},author={Meryem ÖZDEMİR YILMAZER-& Hasan Çağlar BAŞOL},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}