Aylin C. Küntay
October 15, 2015
Professor
Department of Psychology
Koç University
Rumeli Feneri Yolu
Sarıyer 34450, Istanbul
Turkey
Visiting Professor
Educational and Learning Sciences
Utrecht University
Martinus J. Langeveld Building
Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: +90 212.338.3136
Fax: +90 212.338.3760
Email: [email protected]
Education
• University of California at Berkeley: MIS in Information Management & Systems, May 1999
(Thesis title: End-User Search Behavior on MelWeb: A Longitudinal Study)
• University of California at Berkeley: Ph.D. in Psychology, 1997
(Dissertation title: Extended Discourse Skills of Turkish Preschoolers Across Shifting Contexts)
• University of California at Berkeley: M.A. in Psychology, 1995
• Boğaziçi University, Istanbul: B.A. in Psychology with high honors, 1989
Employment
• December 2010-now
Professor at Koç University, Istanbul, 23 December, 2010
• April 2005- December 2010
Aylin C. Küntay
Associate Professor at Koç University, 18 April 2005-23 December 2010
• September 1999-April 2005
Assistant Professor at Koç University, Istanbul
• January 1999-June 1999
Teaching Associate for Prof. David Kaufmann, Education, UC Berkeley. Introduction to Cognitive
Science.
• May 1995-December 1998
Postdoctoral researcher and Research Assistant in Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL)
project, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Journal articles and book chapters
Ateş-Şen, B. & Küntay, A.C. (submitted). Interactions of Turkish-learning children and caregivers
about non-absent referents: Influence of nonverbal action and prior discourse. Journal of
Child Language.
Brouwer, S. & Küntay, A.C. (submitted). Revision of verb-based semantic expectations in
children’s spoken language comprehension: Relation with vocabulary and executive
functions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Verhagen, J., Grassmann, S. & Küntay, A.C. (submitted). Monolingual and bilingual children's
resolution of referential conflicts: Effects of bilingualism and vocabulary knowledge.
Cognitive Development.
Quimbo, S., Wagner, N., Küntay, A.C., Javier, X., Peabody, J. (submitted). Revisiting the nature
vs. nurture debate: Patterns of cognitive development of Filipino children. World
Development.
Ayaş Köksal, S. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). Oyun ve dil gelişimi. In Dost-Gözkan, A., Kafescioğlu, N.,
& Tahiroğlu, D. (eds.) Gelişim psikolojisi ve terapi perspektifinden oyun. Özyeğin University
Press.
Ateş Şen, B. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). The impact of caregiver feedback on children’s referential
choices. In L. Serratrice & S. Allen (eds.) The acquisition of reference. TiLAR Series (Trends in
Language Acquisition Research), Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ateş-Şen, B. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). Sosyal-edimsel dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişimi:
Bebeklikte tipik ve atipik sosyal-bilişsel süreçler. In M. Irak (ed.) Psikopatolojide Bilgi İşleme
Süreçleri: Kuramdan Uygulamaya, 2. Baskı. Istanbul: HYB Yayıncılık.
Ateş-Şen, B. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). Socio-pragmatic skills underlying language development:
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Boundaries between typical and atypical development. In M. Bar-On & D. Ravid (eds.)
Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic
Perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Alaca Veryeri, I. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). Early education in literacy in Turkey in comparision to
the Balkan countries. In N. Kucirkova, C. Snow, V. Grover, C. Mcbridge (eds.) The Routledge
International Handbook of Early Literacy Education. Taylor & Francis.
Alaca Veryeri, I. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). Emergent literacy in Turkey. A chapter for the book
translation, Emergent Literacy: Children’s books from 0 to 3. In Bettina Kümmerling (ed.).
Meibauer-Koç University Publications.
Uzundağ, B. & Küntay, A.C. (in press). İki dillilik gelişen bilişi farklı şekillendirir mi? In Ç. Aydın, T.
Göksun, A.C. Küntay, D. Tahiroğlu (eds.) Zihinsel Gelişim. Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Ateş-Şen, A.B. & Demir, Ö.E., Küntay, A.C. (in press). Children’s referential choices in Turkish:
Experimentally elicited and conversationally occasioned devices. In B. Haznedar & N. Ketrez
(eds.), The acquisition of Turkish in childhood. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Sarilar, A., Matthews, D. & Küntay, A.C. (2015). Hearing relative clauses boosts relative clause
usage (and referential clarity) in young Turkish language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics,
36, pp. 175-202.
Dost-Özkan, A. & Küntay, A.C. (2015). Linguistic representation of emotion terms: Variation
with respect to self-construals and education. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 17, pp.
277-285.
Blom, E., Küntay, A.C., Messer, M., Verhagen, J. & Leseman, P. (2014). The benefits of being
bilingual: Working memory in bilingual Turkish-Dutch Children. Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology, 128, pp. 105-119.
Demir, Ö. E. and Küntay, A. C. (2014), Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Underlying
Socioeconomic Gradients in Language Development: New Answers to Old Questions. Child
Development Perspectives, 8: 113–118. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12069.
Demir, Ö., & Küntay, A. (2014). Narrative development. In P. Brooks, & V. Kempe
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development. (Vol. 13, pp. 394-398). Thousand Oaks, CA:
SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346441.n127
Küntay, A.C., & Özge, D. (2014). Word order as a structural cue and word ordering as an
interactional process in early language learning. In Arnon, I., Casillas, M., Kurumada, C. &
Estigarribia, B. (eds.) Language in interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark (pp. 231-250).
TiLAR Series (Trends in Language Acquisition Research), Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Baydar. N., Küntay, A. C., Aydemir, N., Çankaya, D., Gökşen, F., Cemalcılar (2014). “It takes a
village” to support the vocabulary development of children with multiple risk
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factors. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1014-1025.
Küntay, A.C., Nakamura,K. & Ateş Şen, B. (2014). Crosslinguistic and crosscultural approaches to
pragmatic development. In D. Matthews (ed.) Pragmatic development in first language
acquisition (pp. 317-342). TiLAR Series (Trends in Language Acquisition Research),
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Furman, R., Küntay, A.C., & Ozyurek, A. (2014). Early language-specificity of children's event
encoding in speech and gesture: Evidence from caused motion in Turkish. Language,
Cognition and Neuroscience, 29, 620-634. doi:10.1080/01690965.2013.824993.
Köymen, B. & Küntay, A.C. (2013). Turkish children’s conversational oppositions. Usage of two
discourse markers. Discourse Processes, 50:6, 388-406.
Candan, A., Küntay, A.C., Cheung, H., Wagner, L. & Naigles, L. (2012). Language and age effects
in processing of word order. Cognitive Development, 27(3), 205-222.
Demir, E. & Küntay, A.C. (2012). Dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişiminde anababalık etkileri.
(Influences of parents on the development of language and communication skills). In M. Sayıl
& B. Yağmurlu Parenting. Koç University Press.
Küntay, A.C. (2011). Crosslinguistic research. In Erika Hoff (Ed.) The Blackwell guide to research
methods in child language. Wiley-Blackwell.
Sarılar, A., & Küntay, A.C. (2011). Training young learners in referential communication: Relative
clause constructions. In E. Erguvanlı Taylan & B. Rona (Eds.) Puzzles of language: Essays in
honour of Karl Zimmer (pp. 121-135). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Ural, A. E., Yüret, D., Ketrez, N., Koçbaş, D., & Küntay, A.C. (2009). Morphological cues vs.
number of nominals in learning verb types in Turkish: The syntactic bootstrapping
mechanism revisited. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 1393-1405.
Bahtiyar, S. & Küntay, A.C. (2009). Integration of Communicative Partner’s Visual Perspective in
Patterns of Referential Requests. Journal of Child Language, 36, 529-555.
Küntay, A. C. (2009). Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions:
Effects of the relational context. In A. Aksu-Koç & S. Bekman (Eds.) Perspectives on human
development, family and culture. Essays in honor of Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (pp. 178-193).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Küntay, A. C., & Koçbaş, D. (2009). Effects of lexical items and construction types in English and
Turkish character introductions in elicited narrative. In J. Guo, E. Lieven, N. Budwig, S. ErvinTripp, K. Nakamura & S. Ozcaliskan (Eds.) Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of
language (pp. 81-92). New York, NY: Psychology Press. Taylor and Francis Group.
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Baydar, N., Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç, Küntay, A.C., & Gökşen, F. (2008). Effects of an educational television
program on preschoolers: Variability in benefits, Journal of Applied Developmental
Psychology, 29, 349-360.
Göksun, T., Küntay, A.C., & Naigles, L. R. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic
bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323.
Küntay, A.C., & Özyürek, A. (2006). Learning attentional contrasts in using demonstratives in
conversation: What do language-specific strategies in Turkish reveal? Journal of Child
Language, 33, p. 303-320.
Küntay, A. C., & Ahtam, B. (2004). Annelerin çocuklarıyla geçmiş hakkındaki konuşmalarının
anne eğitim düzeyiyle ilişkisi. Türk Psikoloji Dergisi, 19 (54), 19-31.
Küntay, A.C. (2004) Lists as alternative discourse structures to narratives in preschool children’s
conversations. Discourse Processes, 38, 95-118.
Küntay, A.C., Gülgöz, S., & Tekcan, A.İ. (2004). Disputed memories of twins: How ordinary are
they? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 405-413.
Küntay, A., Nakamura, K. (2004). Linguistic strategies serving evaluative functions: A
comparison between Japanese and Turkish narratives. In S. Strömqvist, & L. Verhoeven
(Eds.) Relating events in narrative, Volume 2: Typological and contextual perspectives (pp.
329-358). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Küntay, A.C., & Şenay, İ. (2003). Narratives beget narratives: Rounds of stories in Turkish
preschool conversations. Journal of Pragmatics, 35, pp. 559-587.
İkier, S., Tekcan, A., Gülgöz, S., & Küntay, A.C. (2003). Whose life is it anyway? Adoption of each
other’s autobiographical memories in twins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, pp. 237-247.
Küntay, A.C. (2002) Development of the expression of indefiniteness: Presenting new referents
in Turkish picture-series stories. Discourse Processes, 33, 77-101.
Küntay, A.C. and Slobin, D.I. (2002). Putting interaction back into child language: Examples from
Turkish. Psychology of Language and Communication, 6, 5-14.
Küntay, A.C. (2001). Occasions for providing resolutions (or not) in Turkish preschool
conversations. Narrative Inquiry, 411-450.
Inkelas, S., Hansson, G., Küntay, A., & Orgun, O. (2001). Labial Attraction in Turkish: An
Empirical Perspective. Turkic Languages, 5, 169-197.
Inkelas, S., Küntay, A., Sprouse, R., & Orgun, O. (2000). Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL).
Turkic Languages¸4, 253-275.
Küntay, A. C. (1999). How do Turkish preschoolers anchor referents in conversational extended
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discourse? Psychology of language and communication, 3, 2, pp. 83-90.
Küntay, A., & Slobin, D.I. (1999). The acquisition of Turkish as a native language: A research
review. Turkic Languages, 3(2), 151-188.
Küntay, A., & Ervin-Tripp, S. (1997). Narrative structure and conversational circumstances.
Journal of Narrative and Life History 7 (1-4), 113-120.
Ervin-Tripp, S., & Küntay, A. (1997). The occasioning and structure of conversational stories. In
T. Givón (Ed.) Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives (pp. 133-166).
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Küntay, A., & Slobin, D.I. (1996). Listening to a Turkish mother: Some puzzles for acquisition. In
D.I. Slobin, J. Gerhardt, A. Kyratzis, & J. Guo (Eds.) Social interactions, social context, and
language (pp. 265-286). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Books
Aydın, Ç., Göksun, T., Küntay, A.C., Tahiroğlu, D. (in preparation). Zihinsel Gelişim. Koç
Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Ketrez, N., Küntay, A.C., Özçalışkan, Ş., & Özyürek, A. (in preparation). Social environment and
cognition in language development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç. Trends in Language
Acquisition Research. John Benjamins.
Proceedings (peer-reviewed)
Belpaeme, T., Vogt, P., Kopp, S., Leseman, P., Küntay, A.C., Göksun, T., Pandey, A. (in press).
L2TOR: Second language tutoring using social robots. Position paper accepted for First
International Workshop on Educational Robots (Wonder 2015).
Blom, E., Küntay, A.C., Messer, M., Verhagen, J. & Leseman, P. (2014). Do bilingual TurkishDutch children show working memory benefits despite lower linguistic
proficiency? Proceedings of the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Child
Language Development (pp. 64-76), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Wang, H., Höhle, B., Ketrez, F. N., Küntay, A.C. & Mintz, T. H. (2011). Cross-linguistic
distributional analyses with frequent frames: the cases of German and Turkish. In
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.
628-640). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Naigles, L., Reynolds, C. & Küntay, A.C. (2011). In N. Danis, K. Mesh & H. Sung (Eds.) 2- and 3Year-Olds’ Sensitivity to Pronoun Case in English Sentence Comprehension. Proceedings
Supplement of the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development 35,
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/proceedings/supplement/vol35/.
Furman, R., Özyürek, A., & Küntay, A. C. (2010). Early language-specificity in Turkish children’s
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motion expressions in speech and gesture. In K. Franich, K. M. Iserman, and L. L. Keil (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.
126-137). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Acarlar, F., Aksu-Koç, A., Küntay, A.C., Maviş, İ., Sofu, H., Topbaş, S., Turan, F. (2009). Adapting
MB-CDI to Turkish: The first phase. In S. Ay, Ö. Aydın., İ. Ergenç, S. Gökmen, S. İşsever, and D.
Peçenel (Eds.) Essays on Turkish linguistics: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference
on Turkish Linguistics, August 6-8, 2008. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, Germany.
Yüret, D., Ural, A. E., Ketrez, F. N., Koçbaş, D. & Küntay, A. C. (2009). Morphological cues vs.
number of nominals in learning verb types in Turkish: Syntactic bootstrapping mechanism
revisited. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, and M. Rheiner (Eds.) A Supplement to the
Proceedings of the 33rd Boston University Conference on Language
Development.http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/supp33.html.
Küntay, A. C., & Bahtiyar, S.A., Sungur, H., & Özdamar, Ö. (2008). Requestive speech leads to
referential clarity in Turkish Preschool Children. In H. Chan, H. Jacob, and E. Kapia (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
(pp. 239-250). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Bahtiyar, S. A., & Küntay, A. C. (2007). Preschool children can assess common ground: Effect of
(in)definiteness status of referential terms. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, and I. Woo
(Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development (pp. 70-80). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Naigles, L., R., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., & Lee, J. N. (2006). Language-specific properties
influence children’s acquisition of argument structure. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C.
Zaller (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development (pp. 388-398). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Demir, E.Ö., Küntay, A.C., & Özyürek, A. (2005). Görme engelli Türk çocuklarının ve annelerinin
işaret zamiri kullanımı: Dokunsal ortak dikkat. 2. Ulusal Dil ve Konuşma Bozuklukları Kongresi
Bildiri Kitabi (Seyhun Topbaş, Ed.), 2005, Ankara: Kök Yayıncılık.
Zimmer, K., & Küntay, A.C. (2003). Turkish Internal Vowel Harmony Revisited. In A. S. Özsoy, D.
Akar, M. Nakipoğlu-Demiralp, E. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan, A. Aksu-Koç (Eds.). Studies in Turkish
Linguistics (pp. 27-33). Istanbul: Boğaziçi University Press.
Küntay, A. & Özyürek, A. (2002). Development of the use of demonstrative pronouns in Turkish.
Proceedings for the Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 336-347).
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Küntay, A.C., & Slobin, D.I. (2001). Discourse behavior of lexical categories in Turkish childdirected speech: Nouns vs. Verbs. In Almgren, M., Barreña, A., Ezeizabarrena , M., Idiazabal
I., and MacWhinney B. (eds.) Research on child language acquisition: Proceedings for the 8th
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Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (pp. 928-946),
Cascadilla Press.
Inkelas, S., Küntay, A., Orgun, C.O., & Sprouse, R. (2000). Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon
(TELL): A lexical database. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation, Athens, Greece.
Küntay, A., & Ervin-Tripp, S. (1998). Conversational narratives of Turkish children: Occasions and
Structures. In A. Aksu-Koc, E. Erguvanli-Taylan, A. Sumru Ozsoy & A. Küntay (Eds.)
Perspectives on language acquisition: Selected papers from the International Congress for
the Study of Child Language (July 14-19, 1996).
Dasinger, L., & Küntay, A. (1998). Introducing referents in elicited discourse: Finnish vs. Turkish.
In A. Aksu-Koc, E. Erguvanli-Taylan, A. Sumru Ozsoy & A. Küntay (Eds.) Perspectives on
language acquisition: Selected papers from the International Congress for the Study of Child
Language (July 14-19, 1996).
Aksu-Koç, A., Erguvanlı-Taylan, E., Özsoy, A. S., & Küntay, A. (Eds.) (1998). Perspectives on
language acquisition: Selected papers from the International Congress for the Study of Child
Language.
Inkelas, S., Küntay, A., & Orgun, O. (1996). Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL). Paper
presented at the International Congress of Turkish Linguistics (August 4-7 1996), Ankara,
Turkey.
Küntay, A., & Slobin, D.I. (1995). Nouns and verbs in child directed speech. In D. MacLaughlin, &
S. McEwen (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Boston University Conference on Language
Development (pp. 179-196). Boston, MA.
Slobin, D.I., Dasinger, L., Küntay, A., & Toupin, C. (1993). Native language reacquisition in early
childhood. In E. Clark (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Child Language
Research Forum. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Invited talks
LOT School, Taught a 5-day course on Social Cognition, Input and Language Acquistion, January
19-23, 2014, University of Amsterdam.
Differentiation of evidential functions in Turkish child- and child-directed speech. LingDay,
Boğaziçi University, June 8, 2015. (with Berna Uzundağ, Süleyman Taşçı, Ayhan Aksu-Koç).
Is Referential Communication Really That Challenging for Children? (and Why would Cognitive
Science Care About That?). 2nd International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science,
METU, Ankara, April 18, 2015.
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Sosyal-Bilişsel Gelişim Bağlamında Dil ve İletişim. Kemerburgaz University, Psychology Talks,
May 7, 2016.
She refers therefore she is: Morphosyntax and pragmatics of referential communication.
Plenary talk at the conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language
(IASCL), Amsterdam, July 18, 2014.
Word order acquisition and interactional learning (with Dr. Duygu Özge), Invited talk for the
symposium titled “Language in interaction” at the conference of the International Association
for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, July 16, 2014.
Prediction during language processing (with Dr. Susanne Brouwer), Educational and Learning
Sciences symposium, Utrecht University, July 7, 2014.
Turkish-Dutch bilingual children show memory benefits despite lower linguistic proficiency
(with Dr. Elma Blom), Sardes Educational Services, June 23, 2014.
Çiftdilli ortamlarda dil gelişimi (Language development in bilingual environments), Rosarium
Foundation, Rotterdam, June 19, 2014.
Language, thought, culture. Lecture for Psychology Now series, Utrecht University, Department
of Psychology, June 11, 2014.
Invited final discussion in “Communicative intention in action and gesture”, 4th Nijmenegn
Gesture Centre Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, June 3, 2014.
Referential clarity in preschoolers’ linguistic forms: Implications for sociolinguistic development.
Invited symposium for 44th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, San Francisco, May 29,
2014.
Erken Çocuklukta Dil, İletişim, Anlatı. İÜ Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Çocuk Psikiyatrisi Seminerleri,
May 22, 2014.
İnsan Zihninde Dil(ler) ve İletişim. Koç Üniversity, UNIV-101 Seminerleri, March 26, 2014.
Impact of interaction and feedback on children’s referential communication skills. Yeditepe
University, Cognitive Science Seminars, March 7, 2014.
Interactive goals, feedback and training influence children’s referential communication skills.
University of Toronto, Developmental Talks, January 30, 2014.
Language and communication development during early years. Özyeğin University, Istanbul.
Graduate proseminar course for Applied Developmental Psychology. January 3, 2014.
Development of integration of linguistic knowledge and effective reference in children. Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul. March 21, 2013.
Word learning opportunities in extended conversational interactions. Part of a symposium
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titled “Challenges for the field of language development”. Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. October 2, 2012.
Learning to talk about chairs (and other things): Emergence and development of language-andcommunication in children, Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Inaugural speech. May 22, 2013.
Comments on Mother Tongue and Multilingualism-based Education, Diyarbakır Political and
Social Research Institute (DİSA), Ankara. October 5, 2013
Roundtable discussion about research on bilingualism in Turkey and the Netherlands
Educational and Learning Sciences, Utrecht University. October 28, 2013
Development of referential communication: impact of caregiver feedback and interaction,
‘Discourse op Dienstag Series, ‘Development of referential communication: impact of caregiver
feedback and interaction’, Institue of Linguistics, Utrecht University. October 29, 2013
How does extended referential discourse integrate speech and other communicative devices in
early child-caregiver Interaction? Keynote speech for Seminar on Socio-cognitive Mechanisms
of Symbolic Communication (Dr. Paul Vogt). Tilburg University, Netherlands. January 26, 2012.
When referential introductions (don’t) go awry in preschool children’s narrative discourse.
Seminar on Communicative Development (Dr. Danielle Matthews). Sheffield University, UK.
January 18, 2012.
Expert comments on “Linguistic results: Orthography and literate structures”. Closing
conference of the “Literacy Acquisition in Schools” project (Dr. Christoph Schroeder). Potsdam
University, Germany. September 16, 2011.
Where words fall short: Non-speech communicative devices of Turkish toddlers and their
caregivers. With Ö.E. Demir & A.B. Ateş Şen. Invited symposium in the Regional Conference of
the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (Dr. Zeynep Aycan). July 2, 2011.
Predictive processing in children acquiring Turkish. Boğaziçi University, LingDays (Dr. Eser
Erguvanlı-Taylan). With D. Özge & J. Snedeker. May 31, 2011.
TİGE, Turkish Communicative Development Inventory: The adaptation process and some
results. Boğaziçi University, LingDays (Dr. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan). With A. Aksu-Koç. May 31,
2011.
Dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişimi (“Development of language and communication skills”) Vth
Işık Savaşır Symposium of Clinical Psychology. Adnan Menderes University (Dr. Mehmet Eskin).
May 19, 2011.
Socio-cognitive development at preschool ages is affected by book-reading interactions. Course
on Designing Children’s Books (Dr. Ilgım Veryeri Alaca). May 5, 2011.
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Language and communication in early childhood. Early Childhood Development Course, Round
II, Netherlands Institute of Higher Education-Ankara (NIHA) & Sardes & ICDI (Dr. Jeroen
Aarssen). January 6, 2011.
Why (we) bother about crosslinguistic experimental work in studying language development.
University of Connecticut, Psychology Department (Dr. Letitia Naigles). November 8, 2010.
Language and communication in early childhood: A Turkish emphasis. Early Childhood
Development Course, Round I, Netherlands Institute of Higher Education-Ankara (NIHA) &
Sardes & ICDI (Dr. Jeroen Aarssen). January 15, 2010.
Dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişimi (“Development of language and communication skills”)
Psychology Days, Okan University (Dr. Dilek Şirvanlı-Özen). April 29, 2010.
Vocabulary development in 3-year-olds: Contexts and predictors. MOCEV-AÇEP (Mother Child
Education Foundation). With N. Baydar, Z. Cemalcılar, F. Gökşen, B. Yağmurlu. November 12,
2009.
Do Turkish-speaking preschoolers pick up on relative clauses in referential communication?
Boğaziçi University, LingDays (Dr. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan). With A. Sarılar. May 27, 2009.
First language development. Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education
(Dr. Ayşe Gürel). November 5, 2008.
Making a linguistic choice with audience visual access in mind. Max Planck Institute of
Evolutionary Anthropology. Lyon, France (Dr. Gerlind Hauser-Dr. Danielle Matthews-Dr. Michael
Tomasello). April 14, 2009.
Okul öncesi dönemde dil gelişimi (“Language development in preschool years”). METU,
Psychology Days. March 12, 2009.
Pragmatic language development. Keynote talk in Language and Communications Disorders
Congress (Dr. Pınar Ege). Kuşadası, Aydın. April 30, 2009.
Children’s conversational narratives in preschool settings: Occasions, functions, and structures.
Bilgi University, Comparative Literature and Psychology Departments (Dr. Christoph Schroeder
& Dr. Diana Sunar). April 11, 2007.
Research in language development: Importance and methods of early assessment. American
Hospital, Istanbul (Dr. Gülnihal Şarman). May 12, 2006.
Children’s conversational narratives in preschool settings: Occasions, functions, and structures.
Keynote talk for Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Methods and Applications, ESRC Seminar,
University of Sheffield, UK (Dr. Hilary Gardner), September 14, 2006.
Young children’s peer interactions and conversations. Data session with B. Köymen. Analysing
Interactions in Childhood: Methods and Applications, ESRC Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK
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(Dr. Hilary Gardner), September 14, 2006.
Language and narrative development during preschool years, Hacettepe University, Deparment
of Psychology (Dr. Melike Sayıl), October, 2006.
Expression of causal relations in elicited narrative discourse: A developmental and
crosslinguistic account. Cognitive Science Group, Boğaziçi University, November 2002.
Grants
L2TOR, Second language tutoring using social robots, H2020 Call in Information and
Communication Technologies, European Commission, 2016-2019 (PI, with Tilbe Göksun at
Koç University; Coordinator, Dr. Tony Belpaeme, Plymouth University).
IntenC, Tubitak-BMBF Turkish-German Cooperation, Influence of socioeconomic and
immigration status on the cognitive origins of cultural learning (PI, with Dr. Ulf Liszkowski,
Hamburg University as co-PI), 2014-2017.
Tubitak, Language Comprehension Processes in Turkish Learners: An Eye-tracking study, May
2011- December 2013. (PI).
National Institute of Health, Early grammar productivity: Two Languages, Comprehension (coPI: Dr. Letitia Naigles, University of Connecticut, USA) , 2006-2010
Tubitak, The Study of Early Childhood Developmental Ecologies in Turkey (PI: Dr. Nazlı Baydar,
Koç University), 2007-2010; 2010-2013
Tubitak, Türkçe’de erken sözcük ve dilbilgisel gelişimi ölçme ve değerlendirme çalışması (Turkish
Communicative Development Inventory) (PI: Dr. Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Boğaziçi University), 20072010
CNRS, for conducting longitudinal research on emergence and early development of language
capacity (In collaboration with Dr. Sophie Kern, University of Lyon II, France), 2001-2006
Eurocores Programme (ESF), The Origin of Man, Language and Languages (OMLL) (In
collaboration with Dr. Sophie Kern, University of Lyon II, France), 2001-2005
TÜBİTAK and French Foreign Ministry Program for Integrated Actions (PIA)- Bosphorus Grant (In
collaboration with Dr. Mehmet-Ali Akıncı, University of Rouen, France), 2005-2007
Honors and awards
Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Utrecht University, 2015Prince Claus Chair for Development and Equity, 2012-2014, Utrecht University
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TUBA, Gebip- Young Scientist Award Program, 2002-2005
Executive Board of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, 2007Graduate Student Supervision
PhD Students
Ebru Ger, expected graduation: 2019
Cansu Oranç, expected graduation: 2019
Berna Arslan Uzundağ, expected graduation: 2018
Deniz Özkan Göktürk: 2018
Süleyman Sabri Taşçı, expected graduation: 2017
Hilal Şen, expected graduation: 2017
Beyza Ateş Şen, expected graduation: 2016
MA Students
Özge Savaş, expected graduation: 2014
Mustafa Uğur Kaya, graduation: 2013
Nazlı Altınok, graduation: 2013
Elda Asael, graduation: 2012
Sevcan Ayaş Köksal, graduation: 2012
Ayşe Sarılar, 2010
Ayşe Beyza Ateş Şen, 2010
Ayşe Candan, 2009
Ayfer Dost, 2007
Tilbe Göksun, 2005
Bahar Köymen, 2005
Sevda Bahtiyar, 2005
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Editorial and Peer Review Activities
Associate Editor for Journal of Child Language, January 2012-January 2016
Associate Editor for Turkish Psychology Journal, 2005-2011
Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journal of Child Language, Developmental Psychology, Discourse
Processes, Applied Psycholinguistics, Child Development, Cognitive Science, Journal of Crosscultural Psychology, Cognitive Development, Developmental Review, TiLAR Series, IASCL
conference, British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Consulting
DİSA, Diyarbakır Siyasal ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Enstitüsü (Diyarbakır Institute of Political and
Social Science), on bilingual and mother tongue-based education
Anadolu Kültür (Anadolu Culture), on publishing of bilingual books for preschool and early
school children in Turkey
TRT-Çocuk (Turkish Radio and Television-Child), on TV programs about early childhood
education and preliteracy promotion
Professional affiliation
Society for Language Development (SLD)
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
International Pragmatics Research Association (IPRA)
Turkish Psychological Association (TPA)
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