Welcome!
I am a research group leader at Boğaziçi University Cognitive Science program, 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 a research group leader at Boğaziçi University Cognitive Science program, 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:
We have scholarships available for Ph.D. and MSc/MA students.
The workshop on Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence (CCILE 2020, #ccile2020) organized by my team and collaborators, Matt Hall (Temple University) and Limor Raviv (MPI) to be held in June 2020, at Bogazici University, got canceled due to Covid-19 outbreak. We are monitoring the situation closely to reschedule it for 2021.
You can find the recent media coverage of our research HERE and 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
Photo credit: Corporate Communication Office, Boğaziçi University
Announcements:
We have scholarships available for Ph.D. and MSc/MA students.
The workshop on Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence (CCILE 2020, #ccile2020) organized by my team and collaborators, Matt Hall (Temple University) and Limor Raviv (MPI) to be held in June 2020, at Bogazici University, got canceled due to Covid-19 outbreak. We are monitoring the situation closely to reschedule it for 2021.
You can find the recent media coverage of our research HERE and 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
Photo credit: Corporate Communication Office, Boğaziçi University
