Some slides/posters/abstracts are linked here. For those that are not, please contact me at obakay@umass.edu.
Psycholinguistics
(2025) An experimental investigation of conjunct agreement in Turkish. Talk w/ Faruk Akkuş at the 61st Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), University of Chicago. [slides] [abstract]
(2025) Hierarchical relations in memory retrieval: Evidence from a local anaphor in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Faruk Akkuş and Brian Dillon at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of Maryland. [poster] [abstract].
(2025) An experimental investigation of conjunct agreement in Turkish. Talk w/ Faruk Akkuş at the 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, University of Southern California. (see slides and abstract from CLS61 above)
(2024) The role of c-command in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish. Talk w/ Faruk Akkuş and Brian Dillon at the 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, Cornell University. [slides] [abstract]
(2024) Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Metehan Oğuz at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Michigan University. [poster] [abstract]
(2024) Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Metehan Oğuz at the 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, Cornell University. [poster] [abstract]
(2024) Effects of surprisal in (long-distance) licensing of Turkish NPIs. Poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz and Jaklin Kornfilt at the 37th Human Sentence Processing (HSP) Conference, Michigan University. [poster] [abstract]
(2023) The role of structural cues and recency in processing a pre-verbal anaphor in Turkish. Talk at Neurolinguistics Summer Meetings, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. [slides]
(2023) The role of structural cues and recency in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Faruk Akkuş and Brian Dillon at the 29th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) Conference, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain. [poster] [abstract]
(2023) Predicting disjoint reference: offline and online evidence. Poster presentation w/ Jon Burnsky, Maayan Keshev, Mariam Asatryan, Kyle Johnson and Brian Dillon at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of Pittsburgh, poster presentation. [poster] [abstract].
(2022) Logophoric readings in long-distance binding of Turkish reflexives. Talk at ECO-5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(2022) C-command effects in binding third-person reflexives and pronoun in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Brian Dillon at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), UC Santa Cruz (poster presentation at the satellite event at the University of Maryland). [slides] [abstract]
(2021) Case interference and phrase length effects in processing Turkish center-embeddings. Virtual poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania. [slides] [abstract]
(2021) The role of animacy in processing ditransitive verbs in Turkish [in Turkish]. Virtual talk w/ Didem Kurt at the 34th National Linguistics Congress (UDK), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. [slides] [abstract]
(2020) An investigation of morphosyntactic case interference and prosodic phrase lengths in Turkish center-embeddings. Talk at Student Conference on Linguistics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. [abstract]
(2020) Missing-verb illusion in Turkish center-embeddings? An investigation of case interference and phrase lengths. Virtual poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz at the 24th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) Conference, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. [slides] [abstract]
(2020) An investigation of late closure in adverb attachment preferences of L1 and L2 speakers of Turkish. Virtual talk w/ Dr. Ayşe Gürel at the 20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Eskişehir, Turkey. [abstract]
NLP in Turkish
(2021) Turkish WordNet KeNet. Virtual paper presentation w/ Özlem Ergelen, Elif Sarmış, Selin Yıldırım, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Atilla Kocabalcıoğlu, Merve Özçelik, Ezgi Saniyar, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Begüm Avar and Olcay Taner Yıldız at the 11th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC), University of South Africa. [slides]
(2019) Integrating Turkish Wordnet KeNet to Princeton WordNet: The Case of One-to-Many Correspondences. Paper presentation w/ Özlem Ergelen and Olcay Taner Yıldız at the Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (ASYU), Yaşar University, İzmir, Turkey. [slides]
(2019) Problems Caused by Semantic Drift in WordNet Synset Construction. Paper presentation w/ Özlem Ergelen and Olcay Taner Yıldız at the 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), 19 Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey. [slides]
Laz
(2018) The Current Status of the Laz Language and the Laz-Speaking Communities in Turkey [in Turkish]. Talk w/ Belma Haznedar and İsmail Avcı at the 32th National Linguistics Congress (UDK), İzmir, Turkey. [abstract]
Second Language
(2024) Summer language gains and community building at Bogazici University’s Immersive Turkish Language and Culture Program. Talk w/ Sylvia Önder, Büşra Marşan, Kadir Gökgöz and Ceyda Arslan Kechriotis at Georgetown University Round Table (GURT), Georgetown University. [slides]
(2018) Non-native speakers’ perceptions of the intelligibility of Turkish in Turkey. Talk w/ Elif Bozyiğit, Gülşah Sobucalı, Selin Yıldırım and Yasemin Bayyurt at the 19th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. [slides]