Welcome!
I am an independent research group leader at the Institute of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul/Turkey. I have two main research interests: a) language emergence and evolution, with a specific focus on -but not limited to- the emergence of linguistic features in micro-community sign languages, b) language processing –more specifically, morphological processing in spoken languages. My team currently investigates language emergence and evolution in the absence of conventionalized linguistic models within the scope of BIDEB-2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers grant program awarded by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).
I am an independent research group leader at the Institute of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul/Turkey. I have two main research interests: a) language emergence and evolution, with a specific focus on -but not limited to- the emergence of linguistic features in micro-community sign languages, b) language processing –more specifically, morphological processing in spoken languages. My team currently investigates language emergence and evolution in the absence of conventionalized linguistic models within the scope of BIDEB-2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers grant program awarded by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).
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Announcements:
"The Signed Origin of Language", documentary featuring our research on Central Taurus Sign Language is now online. Click HERE for the English version, and HERE for the Turkish version.
The recordings of the virtual workshop on Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence (CCILE2022, #ccile2022) organized by my team and collaborators, Limor Raviv (MPI) and Matthew Hall (Temple University) are now online on our YouTube Channel: CCILE2022. The official languages are English and International Sign.
For our online photography exhibition about our research, please visit www.dilsizdegil.com for Turkish and Turkish Sign Language version, and www.notmute.com for the English version.
You can find the recent media coverage of our research HERE and HERE.
You can view my TEDx talk on Central Taurus Sign Language HERE.
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More about me:
My LinguisTree.
Education:
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Tufts University
MSc., Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University
B.A., Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University
Work experience:
2020 Jan. - Research Group Leader, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
2017 - 2019 Research staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
2012 - 2017 Teaching Assistant at Psychology Department, Tufts University, USA
2009 - 2012 Instructor at Modern Languages Department, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
2005 - 2009 Instructor at School of English Language, Bilkent University, Turkey
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Photo credit: Corporate Communication Office, Boğaziçi University
Announcements:
"The Signed Origin of Language", documentary featuring our research on Central Taurus Sign Language is now online. Click HERE for the English version, and HERE for the Turkish version.
The recordings of the virtual workshop on Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence (CCILE2022, #ccile2022) organized by my team and collaborators, Limor Raviv (MPI) and Matthew Hall (Temple University) are now online on our YouTube Channel: CCILE2022. The official languages are English and International Sign.
For our online photography exhibition about our research, please visit www.dilsizdegil.com for Turkish and Turkish Sign Language version, and www.notmute.com for the English version.
You can find the recent media coverage of our research HERE and HERE.
You can view my TEDx talk on Central Taurus Sign Language HERE.
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More about me:
My LinguisTree.
Education:
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Tufts University
MSc., Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University
B.A., Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University
Work experience:
2020 Jan. - Research Group Leader, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
2017 - 2019 Research staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
2012 - 2017 Teaching Assistant at Psychology Department, Tufts University, USA
2009 - 2012 Instructor at Modern Languages Department, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
2005 - 2009 Instructor at School of English Language, Bilkent University, Turkey
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Photo credit: Corporate Communication Office, Boğaziçi University
