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Detailed investigation of the relation between mothers’ mental state language and children's theory of mind abilities
(Bilkent University, 2022-07)This study investigated the relation between maternal mental state language (MSL) in a storytelling context and preschoolers’ Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities. Seventy-four Turkish-speaking mothers’ mental state discourse ... -
Detailed investigation of Turkish children’s diverse belief task performance
(Bilkent University, 2022-12)This study investigated Turkish children’s Diverse Belief (DB) task performance, which is one of the tasks in Theory of Mind (ToM) battery. Previous literature found that Turkish children underperformed on the DB task when ... -
The effect of maternal mental state talk on preschool children’s theory of mind abilities
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)This study investigates the relation between maternal mental state expressions during story book reading and 3- to 5-year-old Turkish speaking children’s theory of mind (ToM) abilities. Thirty-two children completed ToM, ... -
Fact vs. fiction: preschoolers’ learning of information from narrative and expository books
(Bilkent University, 2017-12)Expository and narrative books differ in terms of their structure, content, and language. This study investigated 3- and 5-year-old children’s learning of information from different genres, and whether children differ in ... -
An investigation of Turkish mothers’ narrative styles and their relation to children’s narrative comprehension
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)Quality of mothers’ book sharing interactions with their children show variations at both individual and cultural levels. The narrative styles that mothers adopt during these book sharing interactions influence their ... -
Turkish as a grammaticalized language: the effect of factivity alternation and certainty on theory of mind understanding
(Bilkent University, 2021-07)The majority of studies investigating the relation between language and socio-cognitive understanding have been designed for and carried out with participants from Western cultures (Milligan et al., 2007). Recently, there ... -
Turkish mothers’ use of complement clauses in storytelling in relation to children’s comprehension of complement clauses and theory of mind abilities
(Bilkent University, 2022-04)This study investigates mothers’ use of complement clauses in relation to children’s comprehension of complement clauses and theory of mind among 3-to 5-year-old Turkish speaking children. 114 children were given comprehension ... -
Turkish speakers' conceptualization of belief-related words and its implications for theory of mind development
(Bilkent University, 2019-05)This thesis is comprised of three studies. Study 1 & 2 investigate whether there are pragmatic nuances between belief-related mental state verbs (e.g., “to think, guess, and falsely think”) acknowledged by Turkish-speaking ...
