Utku Turk

PhD Student, University of Maryland, College Park

Department of Linguistics
1407A Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Education

Expected 2027 Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Supervisors: Colin Phillips and Ellen Lau

2022 M.A., Linguistics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Supervisor: Pavel Logacev
Thesis: Agreement Attraction in Turkish

2020 & 2021 Summer School on Statistical Methods, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.

2020 Visiting Grad Student, Linguistics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.

2019 Experimental Pragmatics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany.

2017 B.A., Translation Studies (Spanish minor), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2015 Exchange Student, Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Experience

2022-present Graduate assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

2017-2022 Research & teaching assistant, Department of Linguistics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2018-2019 Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Awards and honors

2022-2027 Flagship Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

2019 Travel Grant, DGfs Summer School, XPrag.de, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany.

Travel Grant, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2018 Research Assistantship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Department of Computer Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2012-2017 Outstanding (Top 100) Bachelor Student, Council of Higher Education, Ankara, Turkey.

Publications

Publication list also available in Google Scholar. † = shared first authorship.

Journal articles, in preparation

U. Turk and P. Logacev. Agreement Attraction in Turkish: The Case of Genitive Attractors. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, In revision, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/5rmvu.

Journal articles

2021 U. Turk, F. Atmaca, S. B. Ozates, G. Berk, S. T. Bedir, A. Köksal, B. Ozturk Basaran, T. Güngör, A. Özgür. Resources for Turkish Dependency Parsing: Introducing the BOUN Treebank and the BoAT Annotation Tool. Language Resource and Evaluation, doi: 10.1007/s10579-021-09558-0, 2021.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

2021 U. Turk, O. Demirok. Hypothetical Comparison in Turkish. In S. Gundogdu, S. Taghipour, & A. Peters (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, LSA, doi: 10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5054, 2021.

U. Turk, P. Caha. Nanosyntactic Analysis of Turkish Case System. In S. Gundogdu, S. Taghipour, & A. Peters (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, LSA, doi: 10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5051, 2021.

2020 U. Turk. Tackling the Augmentative Puzzle in Turkish. In B. Palaz & L. Stromdahl (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, LSA, doi: 10.3765/ptu.v5i1.4771, 2020.

U. Turk, K. Bayar, A. D. Ozercan, G. Y. Ozturk, S. B. Ozates. First Steps towards Universal Dependencies for Laz. In M. de Marneffe, M. de Lhoneux, J. Nivre & S. Schuster (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020), 189-194, acl: 2020.udw-1.21, 2019.

2019 U. Turk, F. Atmaca, S. B. Ozates, S. T. Bedir, A. Köksal, B. Ozturk Basaran, T. Güngör, A. Özgür. Turkish Treebanking: Unifying and Constructing Efforts. In A. Friedrich, D. Zeyrek & J. Hoek (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 166-177, acl: W19-4019, 2019.

U. Turk, F. Atmaca, S. B. Ozates, S. T. Bedir, A. Köksal, B. Ozturk Basaran, T. Güngör, A. Özgür. Improving the Annotations in the Turkish Universal Dependency Treebank. In A. Rademaker & F. Tyers (eds.), Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2019), 108-117, acl: W19-8013, 2019.

Conference activity

Organization

2022 Conference chair, Student Conference on Linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey. http://scol.boun.edu.tr/scol22

2021 Proceedings reviewer, Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkish, Linguistic Society of America, Toronto, Canada. LSA Archive

2020 Conference chair, Bogazici University Student Conference in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (BUSCTEL), Istanbul, Turkey. http://busctel.boun.edu.tr/

Proceedings reviewer, Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkish, Neward, DE, USA. LSA Archive

2019 Reviewer and session chair, Bogazici University Student Conference in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (BUSCTEL), Istanbul, Turkey. https://busctel19.weebly.com/

2018 Reviewer and session chair, Bogazici University Student Conference in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (BUSCTEL), Istanbul, Turkey. https://busctel18.weebly.com/

Presentations

2021 U. Turk. “Effects of vowel characteristics in suspended affixation with root allomorphy.” AMLaP 2021: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. September 4, 2021.

U. Turk and P. Logacev. “Response bias manipulation in Turkish agreement attraction.” AMLaP 2021: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. September 3, 2021.

K. Sampanis and U. Turk. “Defining borrowing hierarchies in the light of sociolinguistic and geodemographic causation: contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Asia Minor Greek.” 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. September 1, 2021.

S. Canalis, S. Ozdemir, U. Turk, and U. C. Tuncer. “When glides are obstruents, or Turkish [j].” The 20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. August 2, 2021.

U. Turk and O. Demirok. “Hypothetical Comparison in Turkish.” PLC45: The 45th Penn Linguistics Conference. March 19-21, 2021.

U. Turk and O. Demirok. “Hypothetical Comparison in Turkish.” Tu+6: 6th$ Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. February 19, 2021. University of Toronto.

U. Turk and Pavel Caha. “Nanosyntactic Analysis of Turkish Cases.” Tu+6: 6th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. February 19, 2021. University of Toronto.

U. Turk. “When vowel harmony has a say in morpho-syntax: A case from Suspended Affixation.” ConSOLE29: The 29th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. January 29, 2021. University of Leiden.

S. Canalis, S. Ozdemir, U. Turk, and U. C. Tuncer. “When glides are obstruents, or Turkish [j].” The 18th Old World Phonology Conference. January 28, 2021.

2020 U. Turk, K. Bayar, A. D. Ozercan, and S. B. Ozates. “First Steps towards Universal Dependencies for Laz.” 4th Universal Dependencies Workshop, COLING 2020. December 13, 2020.

U. Turk and P. Logacev. “The role of shallow processing in agreement attraction.” The 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 19, 2020. Amherst, MA.

U. Turk and Pavel Logacev. “The role of shallow processing in agreement attraction.” Linguistic Evidence 2020. February 13, 2020. Universität Tübingen. Germany.

S. Ozdemir and U. Turk. “An Investigation into the Nature of the Turkish Glide [j].” Tu+5: 5th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. February 8-9, 2020. University of Delaware.

U. Turk. “Tackling the Augmentative Puzzle in Turkish.” Tu+5: 5th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. February 8-9, 2020. University of Delaware.

2019 U. Turk, F. Atmaca, S. B. Ozates, B. Ozturk Basaran, T. Gungor, A. Ozgur. “Improving the Annotations in the Turkish Universal Dependency Treebank.” The 3rd Universal Dependencies Workshop, SyntaxFest 2019}. August 29-30, 2019. Sorbonne Université. Paris.

U. Turk, F. Atmaca, S. B. Ozates, A. Koksal, B. Ozturk Basaran, T. Gungor, A. Ozgur. “Turkish Treebanking: Unifying and Constructing Efforts.” LAW XIII 2019: The 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. August 1, 2019. Florence, Italy.

U. Turk. Decomposing Turkish Augmentatives. 16th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics,and Phonology. June 17-18, 2019. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

U. Turk, F. Atmaca, S. B. Ozates, B. Ozturk Basaran, T. Gungor, A. Ozgur. “Improving the Annotations in the Turkish Universal Dependency Treebank.” 33rd National Linguistics Conference. May 9-10, 2019. Mersin University, Turkey.

U. Turk. Nanosyntax of Augmentative in Turkish: Interfix -cI- Analysis. The 4th American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM4). May 5, 2019. Stony Brook University, NY.

U. Turk. Nanosyntax of Augmentative in Turkish: Interfix -cI- Analysis. 13th Linguistics Student Conference. April 19-20, 2019. Ankara University, Turkey.

U. Turk. Is Accusative Case Really the Case?. 13th Linguistics Student Conference. April 19-20, 2019. Ankara University, Turkey.

U. Turk and Dikmen, Furkan. Obligatory Adjuncts within Turkish Impersonals. 13th Linguistics Student Conference. April 19-20, 2019. Ankara University, Turkey.

Teaching

Links: = syllabus, = course GitHub page

Teaching asistant

2018–2022 Department of Linguistics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Graded and provided feedback on written assignments
Planned and taught weekly discussions

Spring 2022 Ling 314: Syntax & Semantics of Modern Turkish, Instructor: Umit Atlamaz. (≈ 40 students)

Ling 360: Computational Methods in Linguistics, Instructor: Umit Atlamaz. (≈ 40 students)

Fall 2021 Ling 101: Introduction to Linguistics I, Instructor: Mine Nakipoglu. (≈ 80 students)

Ling 203: Syntax, Instructor: Balkiz Ozturk. (≈ 80 students)

Spring 2021 Ling 101: Introduction to Linguistics I, Instructor: Pavel Logacev. (≈ 125 students)

Ling 314: Syntax & Semantics of Turkish, Instructor: Balkiz Ozturk. (≈ 90 students)

Ling 484: Computational Methods in Linguistics, Instructor: Umit Atlamaz. (≈ 50 students)

Fall 2020 Ling 101: Introduction to Linguistics I, Instructor: Omer Demirok. (≈ 100 students)

Ling 203: Syntax, Instructor: Balkiz Ozturk. (≈ 50 students)

Ling 411: Linguistic Methodology, Instructor: Pavel Logacev. (≈ 40 students)

Spring 2020 Ling 202: Morphology, Instructor: Asli Goksel. (≈ 100 students)

Ling 206: Language Typology, Instructor: Metin Bagriacik. (≈ 40 students)

Fall 2019 Ling 101: Introduction to Linguistics I, Instructor: Meltem Kelepir. (≈ 100 students)

Ling 313: Phonology & Morphology of Turkish, Instructor: Asli Goksel. (≈ 100 students)

Spring 2019 Ling 101: Introduction to Linguistics I, Instructor: Elena Guerzoni. (≈ 70 students)

Ling 314: Syntax & Semantics of Turkish, Instructor: Balkiz Ozturk. (≈ 100 students)

Fall 2018 Ling 313: Phonology & Morphology of Turkish, Instructor: Kadir Gokgoz. (≈ 100 students)

Spring 2018 Ling 101: Introduction to Linguistics I, Instructor: Pavel Logacev. (≈ 100 students)

Ling 102: Intro to Linguistics II, Instructor: Mine Nakipoglu. (≈ 60 students)

2018–2019 Turkish Language and Culture Program, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Graded and provided feedback on written/spoken assignments
Planned and taught weekly discussions and carried out cultural activities

Summer 2019 Upper Intermediate Turkish (16 graduate & undergraduate level students)

Summer 2018 Advanced Turkish (10 graduate level students)

Supervision

Bachelors theses

2019-2020 Burak Enes Çakıcı. “Sentence Classification based on Prosody.” Department of Computer Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Skills

Languages Turkish (native), English (proficient), Spanish (intermediate), Laz (research proficiency), Ladino (research proficiency)

Programming R, Python, Stan, LaTeX (very comfortable); JavaScript, CSS, Html, Webppl (familiar)

Experiment Ibexfarm, PCIbex, Linger, pschoPY, OpenSesame

Memberships

2022-present Language Society America

2019-present Societas Linguistica Europaea

Personal

Birth date: 22 June 1994

Citizenship: Turkey

Residence: Turkey (Permanent resident), USA (currently residing)

Family: Single

Last updated: October 2022