Hello!

I am a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My main interests are psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.

Before coming to UMass, I got my BA and MA from the Foreign Language Education Department at Bogazici University in Istanbul, 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”, under the supervision of Dr. Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz.

Currently, I am working with Dr. Brian Dillon and Dr. Faruk Akkus on the processing of reciprocals in Turkish, and with Dr. Brian Dillon and Dr. Rajesh Bhatt on word order preferences in Turkish. I am also part of the Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory at Bogazici University, where I am involved in a project on the processing of NPIs in Turkish.

Here is my CV.

NEWS

• With Metehan Oguz, I will be presenting a poster titled as “Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish” at HSP 2024, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here is the poster!
• I recently gave a talk titled as “The role of c-command in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish” at Tu+9 Workshop (March 23-24), at Cornell University. Here is the slides!
• I, in collaboration with Nazik Dinctopal Deniz and Didem Kurt, recently published a paper titled as “(Reversed) Mismatch Asymmetry in English Subject-Verb Agreement” in Journal of Linguistics Research. See the paper here!