utku turk
PhD Candidate, Linguistics @ UMD
I’m a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Maryland, working with Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips. My research investigates how different kinds of linguistic information—morphosyntactic structure and morphophonological form—are planned in production and retrieved during sentence processing, and how mismatches between them drive errors and create illusions in production and comprehension. I also work in formal properties of case and adjectival morphophonology, as well as question semantics and embedding facts.
I recently visited UMass to work with Shota Momma and Faruk Akkus. Previously, I received my MA from Boğaziçi University (advisor: Pavel Logačev) and was a visiting researcher at Masaryk University (advisor: Pavel Caha).
My favorite food is gata with koritz and my favorite icecream flavor is saffron and rose (5pm snack of Anthony Bourdain). In my freetime, I try to do some calligraphy.
utku turk
PhD Candidate, Linguistics
University of Maryland
working with Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips
interested in the timing of morphological and syntactic planning in speech, and how it shapes online comprehension and production
Previously MA at Boğaziçi (with Pavel Logačev);
visiting researcher at Masaryk (with Pavel Caha).
unaccusativity syntax or picture difficulty?
i am obssessed with early advance planning, but let me make sure about some picture saliency
generating consistent linguistic experiment materials with AI
next step is to have a norming data on text-to-image-to-image generated standardized stimuli
what might they really mean when they say 'but it's not grammatical to me'?
on why that phrase is usually unhelpful and attempt to be a charitable
saving pcibex recordings to s3 with a python lambda
modern replacement for the outdated JS guide in the original pcibex website.
misunderstanding Kate's talk on nonuniformity of phonology and phonetics
Kate’s asymmetry meets Turkish rounding: evidence that’s gradient but syntactically bounded (also a rant about dual-process framings)
montreal forced aligner workflow for pcibex production experiments
step-by-step instructions for filtering, renaming, and aligning pcibex recordings with mfa
automating experimental recording management with bash
it got really annoying after a while, so i wrote this code
agreement attraction in turkish
attraction in turkish seems to be modulated by bias, register, task details, but not morpology
is /j/ really a sonorant in turkish? i guess not.
findings point to a fricative status for /j/, despite its occasional sonorant disguise
can ‘as if’ clauses be degree comparisons?
turkish as if clauses specifically target gradable adverbials and adjectives, pointing to a degree-based analysis
how to include r expressions in (quarto) yaml
using yaml with embedded r expressions for cleaner, reusable quarto configs