@article{article_602292, title={THE COMPARISON OF WORD CATEGORIES IN TURKISH AND ENGLISH READERS IN TERMS OF SEMANTIC CONCEPTS}, journal={Dil Dergisi}, pages={26–41}, year={2013}, DOI={10.1501/Dilder_0000000189}, author={Gökmen, Seda Gülsüm and Güngör, Mustafa Akın}, keywords={ulam, kavram ağı, sıfat, ad, eylem, ilk okuma}, abstract={In this study, frequencies of nouns, verbs and adjectives in both Turkish and Englishreaders which are published for native speakers are compared, and it is investigated if there is a difference in nouns between Turkish and English readers in terms ofsemantic fields. Thus three different readers in Turkish and four different readers inEnglish are analysed in order to reach the same total number of words in both languages. MAC Numbers is used as a software programme to categorise the words.At the end of the analysis, it is found that nouns are the most frequently used wordcategories in Turkish readers whereas verbs are the most frequently used word categories in English readers. Moreover, it is found out that adjectives are the least frequently used category in both Turkish and English readers. When semantic concepts of the nouns are investigated, it is illustrated that just five out of sixteen totalconcepts are different in both languages. However, the diversity of the nouns in anyconcept in English is more than in Turkish. As a result of this data, it can beassumed that the difference in thought system also has an influence on the frequency of word categories in a language}, number={160}, publisher={Ankara Üniversitesi}