Hello!

I am a fourth-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 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”, under the supervision of Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz.

Currently, I am working with Brian Dillon and Faruk Akkuş on the processing of c-command relation in Turkish, and with Brian Dillon and Rajesh Bhatt on word order preferences in Turkish. I am also part of the Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory at Boğaziçi University, where I am involved in a project on the processing of NPIs in Turkish.

Here is my CV.

NEWS

• I will be presenting joint work with Brian Dillon and Faruk Akkus on ‘Hierarchical relations in memory retrieval: Evidence from a local anaphor in Turkish’ at the 38th HSP at UMD on March 27-29.