Active Projects

Processing Negative Polarity Items in L1 and L2 Turkish

Principal Investigator: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz
Researchers: Özge Bakay, Jaklin Kornfilt, Onur Keleş, Stenai Nuh, Zeynep Feyza Erdemir, Firuze Nazlıcan Sürücü

The Multilingual Eye-tracking Corpus (MECO)

Principal Investigators: Victor Kuperman & Noam Siegelman

Researchers from DenizLab: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz & Stenai Nuh

MultiplEYE Cost Action: Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research.

Principal Investigators: Nora Hollenstein & Lena Jaeger

Researchers from DenizLab: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz, Sezen Bektaş, Onur Keleş

Use of Real-World Knowledge and Syntactic Detail in Language Comprehension by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Principal Investigator: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz
Researchers: Mehtap Güven Çoban & Onur Keleş

Does Language Anxiety Affect the Use of Prosodic Cues in Syntactic Disambiguation?

Principal Investigator: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz
Researchers: Ayşe Gül Yücel & Mustafa Kürşat Halat

Syntactic and Rhythmic Influences in Silent Reading in Turkish 

Principal Investigators: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz & Janet Dean Fodor

Completed Projects

Syntactic and Lexical Influences in Processing Complex Sentences in the L2

Principal Investigator: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz

Processing Center-Embedded Sentences in Turkish

M.A. Thesis by Özge Bakay
Faculty Advisor: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz

Processing Sentential Stress and Information Structure in L1 Turkish and L2 English

M.A. Thesis by Didem Kurt
Faculty Advisor: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz

Use of Prosody in Producing and Processing Turkish Morphological Ambiguities

Principal Investigator: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz
Publication is available here.

Processing Reflexives in the Second Language: Evidence from Eye-tracking

M.A. Thesis by Münir Özturhan
Faculty Advisor: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz

The Processing of English Number Agreement by Turkish Speakers of English: An Eye-tracking Study

M.A. Thesis by Hilal Serin Demirler
Faculty Advisor: Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz

Effects of language proficiency and working memory capacity on predictive inference generation during L2 reading

M.A. thesis by Fatih Sivridağ
Faculty Advisors: Gülcan Erçetin, Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz