Hello!

I am a fifth-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My main interest lies in psycholinguistics, with a focus on how people understand language in real-time. I also have a secondary interest in computational linguistics.

Before coming to UMass, I got my BA and MA from the Foreign Language Education Department at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul, Turkey. I earned my MA degree upon completion of a thesis titled as “Processing Turkish center-embeddings: an investigation of case interference and prosodic phrase lengths”.

For my dissertation project supervised by Brian Dillon and Faruk Akkuş, I am working on the processing of hierarchical relations in real-time sentence comprehension in Turkish using eye-tracking methodology. See my recent preprint on work related to this here.

I have also done projects on (illusory) NPI licensing in Turkish, partial conjunct agreement in Turkish, processing of Principle B in English and word order variation in Turkish.

Here is my CV.

NEWS

• See the preprint of our recent paper titled: ‘Hierarchical relations guide memory retrieval in sentence comprehension: Evidence from a local anaphor in Turkish‘!
• I have recently been awarded the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for my dissertation project on ‘Hierarchical relations in real-time sentence comprehension’.
• See our recent CLS61 proceedings paper on conjunct agreement in Turkish here.