I graduated with a BA (Hons.) in Foreign Language Education from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey in 2015. In 2018, I received my first Masters in Foreign Language Education from Boğaziçi University, where I was advised by Dr. Ayşe Gürel. I did my second Masters thesis under the supervision of Dr. Silvina Montrul at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more details, check my CV or contact me on my email.
Publications
How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty?: The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish-American Returnees (in press)
, Silvina Montrul
Language Learning
Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
Language Acquisition
Heritage language acquisition and maintenance of Turkish in the United States: Challenges to teaching Turkish as a heritage language
The Journal of Linguistics
Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Sources of variability in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The Case of Older Children
, Silvina Montrul
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Central Asian Language and Linguistics (ConCALL-4)
Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğreniminde durum eklerinin kulllanımı [The use of case morphemes in Turkish as a second language]
, Ayşe Gürel
Dilbilimde Güncel Tartışmalar
Conference presentations
The interplay between age and input in the acquisition of evidentiality: The case of Turkish-American returnees and L2 learners of Turkish residing in Turkey
, Silvina Montrul
The 34th Annual Meeting of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 34), Tromsø, Norway.
Stage talk
Turkish-American returnees’ judgements and production of inflectional morphology in Turkish
, Silvina Montrul
The 47th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2025), Mainz, Germany.
Stage talk
Inflectional morphology in Turkish heritage speakers and Turkish-American returnees
, Silvina Montrul
The 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-49), Boston, MA, US.
Poster presentation
Flexibility of complex syntax after puberty: The case of Turkish-American returnees
, Silvina Montrul
Fifteenth Heritage Language Research Institute, UCLA, CA, US.
Poster presentation
Heritage language acquisition of evidentiality under maximal input conditions: The case of Turkish-American returnees
, Silvina Montrul
The 17th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17), Champaign, IL, US.
Stage talk
Relative clauses in Turkish-American returnees
, Silvina Montrul
The 48th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC-48), Philadelphia, PA, US.
Stage talk
How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from Turkish-American returnees
, Silvina Montrul
The 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-48), Boston, MA, US.
Stage talk
Toward understanding the variability in Turkish heritage language children’s acquisition of evidentiality
, Silvina Montrul
Heritage Languages at the Crossroads (HL@Cross), Istanbul, Turkey.
Stage talk
The role of input in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
The 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-47), Boston, MA, US.
Stage talk
Sources of variability in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
University of Illinois at Chicago Bilingualism Forum 2022, Chicago, IL, US.
Stage talk
Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
Fourth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, UCLA, CA, US.
Stage talk
Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-16),Trondheim, Norway.
Poster presentation
The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The case of older children
, Silvina Montrul
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA-9), Reykjavík, Iceland.
Stage talk
The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The case of older children
, Silvina Montrul
4th Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-4), Indiana, IN, US.
Stage talk
The role of input in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
, Silvina Montrul
Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations" (RUEG21) Conference – Dynamics of Language Contact, Berlin, Germany.
Stage talk
The acquisition of morphology in a highly inflected second language: The case of Turkish
, Ayşe Gürel
The 37th Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Montreal, Canada.
Stage talk
The L2 use of Case morphemes in Turkish
, Ayşe Gürel
The 31st National Linguistics Convention, Eskişehir, Turkey
Stage talk
Invited talk
Ultimate attainment of complex morphosyntax in Turkish-American returnees
Turkic Linguistic Network, Berlin, Germany
Exploring individual variation in child and adult Turkish heritage speakers in the United States
The Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) Lab at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Projects
L2 German attrition in returnees from Japan, Portugal, and Turkey: A cross-linguistic investigation of real-time grammatical processing
Tanja Kupisch, , Ilaria Venagli
University of Konstanz
Turkish at fast forward: The use of bir in heritage speakers
Maki Kubota, Cristina Flores, Holger Hopp,
Variation in phonological spell-out: The case of Kazakh and Turkish
Joshua Dees,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nominal coordinated constructions in Korean and in Turkish
James Yoon, , Chae Eun Lee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Inner aspect and the syntax-semantics interface
Jonathan MacDonald, , Mien-Jen Wu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Service
Co-chair of ILLS15
, Mai Mohamed
15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society
Total funds raised: $15,000. Plenary speakers: Drs. Lydia White, Barbara Bullock, Johanne Paradis and Viorica Marian
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Manuscript reviewer
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Second Language Research | Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism | International Journal of Multilingualism | Applied Psycholinguistics | Frontiers in Psychology | Cadernos de Linguistíca
Grants and fellowships
Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant
Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics (SLCL) Dissertation Completion Fellowship (*declined due to fellowship conflict)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from heritage language returnees (BCS 22-34698)
PI: Silvina Montrul, co-PI: Aylin Coşkun Kunduz. Amount $19,000. 24 months. March 2023 - February 2025
National Science Foundation, US
Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Humanities & Arts
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
Honors, Recognitions and Outstanding Achievements
Professional Development Award
Linguistics Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2024)
Linguistics Leadership Award
Linguistics Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2023)
Douglas A. Kibbee Prize for the most outstanding dissertation proposal (*declined due to fellowship conflict)
School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics (SLCL), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2023)
Conference Travel Award
Linguistics Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2023)
Paula Menyuk Travel Award for BUCLD-47
Boston University, US (Fall 2022)
C. W. Kim Research Award
Linguistics Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2022)
SLATE Doctoral Research Award
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2021)
H. R. Kahane award for outstanding TA in non-western languages
Linguistics Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2021)
Graduate College Travel Award
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2020)
CeLCAR Student Travel Stipend Award
Indiana University Bloomington, US (Spring 2020)
SLATE Conference Travel Award
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2020)
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their students: 4 out of 4 semesters of instruction
Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2019 - Spring 2024)
