talks – utku turk

Conference Poster & Talks

[1]Turk, U., Aron, H. (2025, April). Syntactic alternatives in Turkish polar questions. Talk given at PLC 49: The Penn Linguistics Conference. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, USA. [abstract]

[2]Turk, U. (2025, March). Turkish register manipulation eliminates grammaticality asymmetry in attraction and challenges retrieval based accounts. Talk given at HSP 2025: Human Sentence Processing. UMD, College Park, MD, USA. [abstract] [slides]

[3]Turk, U. (2025, March). Register modulates grammaticality asymmetry in Turkish agreement attraction. Talk given at the 10th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. USC: Los Angeles, CA, USA. [abstract]

[4]Turk, U., Hirsch, A. (2025, March). Turkish allows covert scrambling. Poster presented at the 10th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. USC: Los Angeles, CA, USA. [abstract]

[5]Lewis, S., Turk, U. (2025, January). Superiority Effects with Wh-Adjuncts in Turkish. Talk given at LSA 2025: Linguistic Society of America. Philadelphia, PA, USA. [slides]

[6]Turk, U., Lau, E., Phillips, C. (2024, October). When do we plan agreement in our speech: Case from agreement attraction in unaccusatives. Talk given at Puzzles of Agreement:Syntactic, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives. [abstract] [slides]

[7]Turk, U., Phillips, C. (2024, May). Speech timing evidence on the (in)dependence of root and inflection access in production. Poster presented at Human Sentence Processing 2024. [abstract]

[8]Dods, A., Macdonald, A., Turk, U., Mancha, S., Phillips, C. (2024, May). Is the octopus regenerating?: Comparing timing effects in sentence recall and picture description tasks. Poster presented at Human Sentence Processing 2024. [abstract]

[9]Turk, U., Logacev, P. (2023, March). Novel analysis of response bias challenges representational accounts in attraction. Talk given at Human Sentence Processing 2023. [abstract]

[10]Turk, U. (2023, March). Obviation Problem in Turkish. Poster presented at the 8th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, USA. [abstract]

[11]Sampanis, K., Turk, U. (2021, September). Defining borrowing hierarchies in the light of sociolinguistic and geodemographic causation: contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Asia Minor Greek. Talk given (virtually) at 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.

[12]Turk, U., Logacev, P. (2021, September). Response Bias Manipulation in Turkish Agreement Attraction. Poster presented (virtually) at AMLaP 2021: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris, France. [abstract] [slides]

[13]Turk, U. (2021, September). Effects of Vowel Characteristics in Suspended Affixation with Root Allomorphy. Poster presented (virtually) at AMLaP 2021: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris, France. [abstract] [slides]

[14]Turk, U., Atmaca, F., Özateş, Ş. B., Berk, G., Bedir, S. T., Köksal, A., ÖzTurk Başaran, B., Güngör, T., Özgür, A. (2021, August). The more the merrier: a new dependency treebank for Turkish. Talk given (virtually) at the 20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Eskişehir, Turkey.

[15]Canalis, S., Özdemir, S., Turk, U., Tunçer, Ü.C. (2021, August). The phonological nature of the Turkish front glide. Talk given (virtually) at the 20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Eskişehir, Turkey.

[16]Turk, U., Demirok, Ö. (2021, March). Hypothetical Comparison in Turkish. Talk given (virtually) at the 45th Penn Linguistics Conference. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, USA. [abstract] [handout]

[17]Turk, U., Demirok, Ö. (2021, February). Hypothetical Comparison in Turkish. Talk given (virtually) at the 6th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, Canada. [abstract] [handout]

[18]Turk, U., Caha, P. (2021, February). Nanosyntactic Analysis of Turkish Cases. Poster presented (virtually) at the 6th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, Canada. [abstract] [handout]

[19]Turk, U. (2021, January). When vowel harmony has a say in morpho-syntax. Talk given (virtually) at ConSOLE29: the 29th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. University of Leiden: Leiden, Netherlands. [abstract] [slides]

[20]Canalis, S., Özdemir, S., Turk, U., Tunçer, Ü.C. (2021, January). When glides are obstruents, or Turkish [j]. Talk given (virtually) at the 18th Old World Phonology Conference. University of the Balearic Islands: Palma, Spain. [abstract] [slides]

[21]Turk, U., Bayar, K., Özercan, A.D., Özateş, Ş.B. (2020, December). First steps towards Universal Dependencies for Laz. Poster presented (virtually) at the 4th Universal Dependencies Workshop, COLING 2020. Barcelona, Spain.

[22]Turk, U., Logacev, P. (2020, February). The role of shallow processing in agreement attraction. Poster presented (virtually) at the 33rd annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Massachusetts. [abstract]

[23]Turk, U., Logacev, P. (2020, February). The role of shallow processing in agreement attraction. Talk given at Linguistic Evidence: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data. Universität Tübingen: Tübingen, Germany. [abstract]

[24]Özdemir, S., Turk, U. (2020, February). An investigation into the nature of Turkish glide [j]. Poster presented at the 5th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. University of Delaware: Newark, DE, USA. [abstract]

[25]Turk, U. (2020, February). Tackling the augmentative puzzle in Turkish. Poster presented at the 5th Workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic. University of Delaware: Newark, DE, USA. [abstract]

[26]Turk, U., Atmaca, F., Özateş, Ş.B., ÖzTurk, B., Güngör, T., Özgür A. (2019, August). Improving the annotations in the Turkish Universal Dependency Treebank. Talk given at the 3rd Universal Dependencies Workshop, SyntaxFest2019. Sorbonne Université: Paris, France.

[27]Turk, U., Atmaca, F., Özateş, Ş.B., ÖzTurk, B., Güngör, T., Özgür A. (2019, August). Turkish Treebanking: Unifying and Constructiong Efforts. Poster presented at the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, ACL 2019. Florence, Italy.

[28]Turk, U. (2019, June). Decomposing Turkish Augmentatives. Talk given at the 16th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Madrid, Spain.

[29]Turk, U. (2019, May). Nanosyntax of Augmentative in Turkish: Interfix Analysis. Poster presented at AIMM 4: the 4th American International Morphology Meeting. Stony Brook University: NY, USA.

[30]Turk, U., Dikmen, F. (2019, April). Obligatory Adjuncts within Turkish Impersonals. Talk given at the 13th Linguistics Student Conference. Ankara University: Ankara, Turkey.

Invited & Internal Talks

Türk, U. (February, 2024). Timing of Agreement in Verb Planning. Talk given at UMass/UMD Psycholinguistic Mixer. University of Massachusetts: Amherst, MA, USA.

Türk, U. (January, 2024). Controlling morphosyntactic competition through phonology. Talk given at S-Lab. University of Maryland: College Park, MD, USA. handout

Türk, U. (December, 2022). As If they were Turkish As Ifs. Talk given at Meaning Meeting. University of Maryland: College Park, MD, USA.

Türk, U. (October, 2022). Sources of Bias in Psycholinguistic Data. Talk given at Language Science Lunch Talks. Language Science Center, University of Maryland: College Park, MD, USA.

Türk, U. (February, 2019). Is Accusative Case Really the Case? Talk given at 1st Bogazici University Student Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics. Bogazici University: Istanbul, Turkey.