Aylin Coşkun Kunduz

Research

My research lies at the intersection of theoretical linguistics, bilingual language acquisition, and experimental linguistics. I investigate how age, input, and language experience shape grammatical development across the lifespan, with particular emphasis on bilingual and heritage speakers of Turkish.

Drawing on experimental and quantitative methods, my work examines morphology, syntax, and semantics in multilingual populations, contributing to broader theories of language acquisition, language change, and bilingual grammars.

Publications

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Edited volumes

  1. Language Development in Returnee Children and Adultsin prep.
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz (Ed.) · Second Language Research

Refereed Chapters in Scholarly Books

  1. Turkish as a heritage languagein prep.
    T. Leal, S. Montrul, & M. Polinsky (Eds.) · Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. (Re)immersion, Input, and Age Effects in Heritage Language and L2 Attainment in Adulthoodunder review
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
  2. Reactivating inflectional morphology in Turkish‑American returneesin press
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul · Journal of the Linguistic Society of Germany
  3. The other side of the coin matters too: What changes in the former heritage language in returnees may teach us about the dynamics of bilingual language acquisition
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz · Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  4. How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‑American Returnees
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul · Language Learning
  5. Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul · Language Acquisition
  6. Heritage language acquisition and maintenance of Turkish in the United States: Challenges to teaching Turkish as a heritage language
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz · The Journal of Linguistics
  7. Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul · Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  8. Sources of variability in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul · Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Proceedings & other

  1. The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The Case of Older Children
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul · Proceedings of ConCALL‑4
  2. Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğreniminde durum eklerinin kullanımı [The use of case morphemes in Turkish as a second language]
    Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Ayşe Gürel · Dilbilimde Güncel Tartışmalar

Invited Talks

Heritage language reversal of Turkish: Comparing Turkish‑American and Turkish‑German returnees
Turkology and Oriental Studies Colloquium, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
The role of extralinguistic variables in bidirectional language change: Comparing Turkish‑American and Turkish‑German returnees
Language & Learning Network, Uppsala University, Sweden
Heritage language acquisition, maintenance and reactivation of Turkish in America and Europe
Turkic Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden
What can returnee bilinguals teach us about the flexibility of linguistic competence?
Department of English Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany
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
PoLaR Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Conference Presentations

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Is early age of exposure crucial for successful ultimate attainment of morphosyntax? Comparing Turkish‑American returnees and L2 learners residing in Turkey
BUCLD‑50, Boston, MA · Poster
Age and input effects in ultimate attainment of morphosyntax: The case of Turkish‑American returnees and L2 learners residing in Turkey
Heritage Language Syntax 6, Istanbul, Turkey · Talk
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
EuroSLA 34, Tromsø, Norway · Talk
The interplay between age and input in the acquisition of relative clauses: The case of Turkish‑American returnees and L2 learners of Turkish residing in Turkey
ISB15, Donostia‑San Sebastián, Spain · Poster
Turkish‑American returnees' judgements and production of inflectional morphology in Turkish
DGfS 2025, Mainz, Germany · Talk
Inflectional morphology in Turkish heritage speakers and Turkish‑American returnees
BUCLD‑49, Boston, MA · Poster
Flexibility of complex syntax after puberty: The case of Turkish‑American returnees
15th Heritage Language Research Institute, UCLA · Poster
Heritage language acquisition of evidentiality under maximal input conditions: The case of Turkish‑American returnees
GASLA‑17, Champaign, IL · Talk
Relative clauses in Turkish‑American returnees
PLC‑48, Philadelphia, PA · Talk
How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from Turkish‑American returnees
BUCLD‑48, Boston, MA · Talk
Toward understanding the variability in Turkish heritage language children's acquisition of evidentiality
Heritage Languages at the Crossroads, Istanbul, Turkey · Talk
The role of input in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
BUCLD‑47, Boston, MA · Talk
Sources of variability in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
UIC Bilingualism Forum 2022, Chicago, IL · Talk
Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States
4th International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, UCLA · Talk
Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States
GASLA‑16, Trondheim, Norway · Poster
The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The case of older children
GALANA‑9, Reykjavík, Iceland · Talk
The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The case of older children
ConCALL‑4, Indiana, IN · Talk
The role of input in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Turkish heritage language children in the United States
RUEG21 — Dynamics of Language Contact, Berlin, Germany · Talk
The acquisition of morphology in a highly inflected second language: The case of Turkish
37th Second Language Research Forum, Montreal, Canada · Talk
The L2 use of Case morphemes in Turkish
31st National Linguistics Convention, Eskişehir, Turkey · Talk

Ongoing and Recent Research Projects

  1. L2 German attrition in returnees from Japan, Portugal, and Turkey: A cross-linguistic investigation of real-time grammatical processing
    Maki Kubota, Cristina Flores, Holger Hopp, Aylin Coşkun Kunduz
  2. Turkish at fast forward: The use of bir in heritage speakers
    Tanja Kupisch, Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Ilaria Venagli · University of Konstanz
  3. Nominal coordinated constructions in Korean and in Turkish
    James Yoon, Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Chae Eun Lee · University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign
  4. Inner aspect and the syntax‑semantics interface
    Jonathan MacDonald, Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Mien‑Jen Wu