Conference Program *
* Please note that the programme is subject to change, and will be updated continuously up to the conference.
February 910:00 Registration
10.30 Welcome and Announcements 10.45 Elena Guerzoni (Boğaziçi University) Invited Talk: " also only" and the scope theory of minimizer NPIs 11.45 Break 12.00 Elvan Tamyürek Özparlak (Boğaziçi University), Süleyman Taşçı (Boğaziçi University, Koç University) Interpreter: Buket Ela Demirel (Boğaziçi University) Sign Language Workshop 12.45 Lunch First Session (14.00-15.00) - Chair: Furkan Atmaca 14.00 Demet Kayabaşı (Boğaziçi University) Null Subject in TID: Pro-drop or Topic-drop? 14.30 Noyan Dokudan and Pavel Logacev (Boğaziçi University) Missing-Verb Effects in a Head-Final Language 15.00 Break Second Session (15.15-16.15) - Chair: Utku Türk 15.15 Batuhan Karataş (Dokuz Eylül University) "Falan” Dilsel Biriminin Sözcük Türü Üzerine 15.45 Önder Güzel (Dokuz Eylül University) {-(s)Al} mı? {-(A)l} mı? 16.15 Announcements 18.30 Boğaziçi University Music Club Classical Music Choir Concert, Demir Demirgil Auditorium |
February 1010.00 Tilbe Göksun (Koç University) Invited talk: Language and Thought Interface: Talking and Gesturing About Events 11.00 Break First Session (11.15-12.15) - Chair: Önder Güzel 11.15 Berna Arslan Uzundağ and Aylin C. Küntay (Koç University) The Acquisition and Use of Relative Clauses in Turkish: An Analysis of Spontaneous Interactions 11.45 Ecem Baykuş (METU) Any Loss in Pro-Drop Feature?: Null and Overt Subject Usages of Turkish Heritage Speakers 12.15 Lunch Second Session (13.30-14.30) - Chair: Demet Kayabaşı 13.30 Fidan Can, Nermin Boğaz and Nazan Bilgin (METU) An Investigation into the Effect of Orthographic Sensitivity on the Conjugation of Past Morphemes in L2 14.00 Simge Topaloğlu (Boğaziçi University) Acquisition of {-dA}: An Ambiguous Particle That Signals Both Additive Focus and Contrastive Topic 14.30 Break Third Session (14.45-15.45) - Chair: Noyan Dokudan 14.45 Tzu-Ching Kao (METU) The Role of Lexical Categories in Reading Chinese 15.15 Pınar Kolancalı and Sonali Nag (University of Oxford) Turkish-English Speaking Children’s Bilingual Emergent Literacy Skills Following Naturalistic Experiences and a Sound Awareness Intervention Delivered in Turkish 15.45 Closing Remarks 19.00 Social get together: TBA |