ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 1. Background to the study and research questions -- 2. Subjects -- 3. Data and data processing -- 3.1. The language samples -- 3.2. The social and socio-psychological material -- 4. The functional paradigm -- basic principles and concepts of Functional Grammar -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Outline of FG -- CHAPTER 2 ORAL DUTCH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY OF TURKISCH CHILDREN BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS: Overall results -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Tests -- 2.1. Morphology Test -- 2.2. Imitation Test
2.2.1. IT: Morphological Features -- 2.2.2. IT: Syntactic Features -- 2.2.3. IT: Semantic Features -- 2.3. Comprehension Test -- 3. Spontaneous Speech -- 3.1. Morphological Features -- 3.1.1. Verb Conjugation -- 3.1.2. Personal pronouns -- 3.1.3. Prepositions -- 3.1.4. Articles -- 3.2. Syntactic Features -- 3.3. Semantic Features -- 3.3.1. Informational Units -- 3.3.2. Semantic Category Agreement -- 3.3.3. Vocabulary -- 4. Summary and Establishment of an overall level of linguistic proficiency -- 4.1. Summary -- 4.2. Establishment of an overall level of linguistic proficiency -- 5. Conclusion
CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGICAL PROFICIENCY: L1 and L2 development of the verbal predicate -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dutch tense system -- 3. Developmental sequences in L1 acquisition of the verbal predicate -- 4. Method of Analysis -- 5. L2 acquisition of the Dutch tense system -- 6. L2 acquisition of the present tense conjugation rule -- 7. L2 acquisition of the past participle and the past tense -- 7.1. Past Participle -- 7.2. Past Tense -- 8. Summary and discussion -- CHAPTER 4 SYNTACTIC PROFICIENCY: Complexity and correctness of utterances -- 1. Introduction
2. Word order properties of Dutch declarative main clauses -- 2.1. Complete Utterances -- 2.2. Elliptical Utterances -- 2.3. Spoken Dutch -- 3. The FG pattern of Dutch main clauses -- 4. Method of Analysis -- 5. Complexity -- 5.1. Length of Utterances -- 5.2. Structural diversity -- 5.2.1. One-constituent utterances -- 5.2.2. Two-constituent utterances -- 5.2.3. Three-constituent utterances -- 5.2.4. Four-constituent utterances -- 5.2.5. Five-, six-, and seven-constituent utterances -- 5.2.6. Conclusion -- 5.3. Summary -- 6. Correctness -- 6.1. Acceptable spoken Dutch patterns
6.1.1. Utterances starting with the finite verb -- 6.1.2. Utterances with a constituent added to a complete predication -- 6.1.3. Utterances with a noun directly followed by its corresponding demonstrative -- 6.1.4. Frequency of occurrence of acceptable spoken Dutch patterns -- 6.1.5. Conclusion -- 6.2. Utterances without subject and/or without verb -- 6.3. Utterances with a deviant word order pattern -- 6.3.1. Verb Final and V3 -- 6.3.2. Utterances with the subject or verb in two different positions -- 6.3.3. Object Final and incorrect joint VfVi -- 6.3.4. Conclusion -- 6.4. Summary
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Dutch Language Proficiency of Turkish Children Born in the Netherlands
