Öner Özçelik

Chief Applied Linguist

Phone:: (812) 856-1159
Email:: oozcelik@indiana.edu
Website:: http://pages.iu.edu/~oozcelik/

Department:: Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Campus:: IU Bloomington

Eigenmann Hall 243
1900 E 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47406

Biography

In addition to serving as the Director of CeLCAR and the PI for the center's external grants, Öner is an Associate Professor of linguistics and second language acquisition in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) at Indiana University, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Second Language Studies (SLS) in the same institution. He has a Ph.D. in Linguistics as well as in Language Acquisition from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and an MA in Applied Linguistics, with a TESOL Certificate, from the University of Pittsburgh, PA. He has taught courses and published research on phonology and phonetics, as well as on linguistics in general and second language acquisition/teaching. His research has appeared in numerous leading linguistics and language acquisition journals, including Phonology, the flagship journal of the field of phonology; more general linguistics journals, such as Linguistics, Glossa, The Linguistic Review, and the leading journals in second language acquisition (e.g. Second Language Research) and language acquisition in general (e.g. Language Acquisition), as well as area-specific journals (such as Turkic Languages) and various volumes/books. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the high-impact second language acquisition journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

Education

-Ph.D., McGill University, Department of Linguistics, 2012
-Interdisciplinary PhD program option in Language Acquisition, McGill University
-M.A. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Linguistics, 2006
-Graduate Certificate in TESOL, University of Pittsburgh
-B.A. Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education, 2004

Research Interests

Second language acquisition
Phonology and phonetics (with an emphasis on prosody)
Prosody-syntax interface
Phonology-morphology interface
Language pedagogy

Publication Highlights

Özçelik, Öner. In print. Kazakh phonology. In Lars Johanson, Eva A. Csato Johanson, Laszlo Karoly & Astrid Menz (eds.) (Section editor for Kazakh: Henryk Jankowski). Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics. Brill. 6 pages.
Özçelik, Öner. Accepted. A formal phonological and acoustic analysis of verb sequences in Turkic languages. In É. Á. Csató, L. Johanson & B. Karakoç (eds). Ambiguous verb sequences in Transeurasian Languages.
Özçelik, Öner. Accepted. The scope of the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis: Commentary on Goad & White’s “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars.” Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Özçelik, Öner. 2018. Universal Grammar and second language phonology: Full Transfer / Prevalent Access in the L2 acquisition of Turkish “stress” by English and French speakers. Language Acquisition 25:3. 231-267. (Eprint: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SGhy837K7xGVPNkxHhqq/full)
Özçelik, Öner. 2018. Interface Hypothesis and the L2 acquisition of quantificational scope at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Language Acquisition 25:2. 213-223. (Eprint: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/yxbJFHqNw37p8U7vCeZx/full)
Özçelik, Öner. 2018. Towards using extraprosodicity and phonological markedness in accounting for morphological errors in Specific Language Impairment. Language, Interaction & Acquisition 8. 235-275.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2017. Emergent knowledge of a universal phonological principle in the L2 acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish: a ‘four’-fold poverty of the stimulus in L2 acquisition. Second Language Research 33. 179-206
Kupisch, Tanja, Alyona Belikova, Öner Özçelik, Ilse Stangen & Lydia White. 2017. Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7. 1-32.
Özçelik, Öner. 2017. The Foot is not an obligatory constituent of the Prosodic Hierarchy: “stress” in Turkish, French and child English. The Linguistic Review 34. 157-213.
Özçelik, Öner. 2016. The Prosodic Acquisition Path Hypothesis: Towards explaining variability in L2 acquisition of phonology. Glossa 1 (1): 28. 1–48, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.47
Özçelik, Öner. 2016. Against Isomorphism and the Maxim of Charity in child language acquisition: implications for the validity of the TVJT methodology. Linguistics 54. 305-337.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2016. Decreasing dependence on orthography in phonological development: Evidence from vowel harmony in English-Turkish interlanguage. In Ayşe Gürel & Yasemin Bayyurt (eds.), Second Language Acquisition of Turkish (pp. 49-70). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Özçelik, Öner. 2016. Acquisition of L2 Turkish prosody: effects of purely phonological and phonosyntactic issues. In Ayşe Gürel (ed.), Second Language Acquisition of Turkish (pp. 19-48). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Özçelik, Öner 2016. Turkish language. In Richard C. Martin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (pp. 1197-1199). New York: Macmillan.
Özçelik, Öner. 2015. ‘Stress’ or ‘Intonational prominence’? Word accent in Kazakh and Uyghur. Turkic Languages 19. 163-192.
Özçelik, Öner & Amber Kennedy Kent. 2015. Research-informed online language course design and development for least commonly taught LTCLs: The case of Introductory Dari, Pashto, and Uyghur. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 18. 25-61.
Özçelik, Öner. 2014. An Antisymmetric analysis of Turkish relative clauses: implications from prosody. Turkic Languages 18. 247-270.
Özçelik, Öner. 2014. Prosodic faithfulness to foot edges: the case of Turkish stress. Phonology 31. 229-269.
White, Lydia, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik. 2012. Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition: Affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2. 54-89.

Selected Competitive Research Presentations (Refereed)

(pedagogical represented with an asterix)

*Özçelik, Öner & Sibel Crum. 2019. Social networking practices of second language learners. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Washington, DC, November 2019.
Charles, Sherman & Öner Özçelik. 2019. The articulatory-acoustic characteristics of harmonic and disharmonic laterals in Turkish. The 24^th Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference. University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 2019.
Özçelik, Öner. 2019. Towards a more representative Prosodic Hierarchy: phonetic, phonological and syntactic: Evidence. 52^nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 52). University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. August 2019.
Özçelik, Öner. 2019. Second language acquisition of stress by learners with stressless L1s. 6th International Conference on English Pronunciation (EPIP 6): Issues and Practices. University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. May 2019.
Özçelik, Öner. 2019. Acquisition of diverse prosodic systems: implications for bi-/multilingualism. International Conference on Multilingual Theories and Practices (MTP19). Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. May 2019.
Kavitskaya, Darya, Piibi-Kai Kivik, Öner Özçelik, Anne Tamm. 2018. Morphological aspects of Uralic and Turkic Languages. International Meeting on Morphology 18 (IMM 18), Budapest, Hungary. May 2018.
*Özçelik, Öner, Amber Kennedy Kent & Rahman Arman. 2018. Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Instruction in an Online Language Learning Environment: A case study in Pashto. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, March 2018.
*Özçelik, Öner, Amber Kennedy Kent & Rahman Arman. 2017. What Central Asia means to you? American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Nashville, TN, November 2017.
Özçelik, Öner. 2017. Phonological markedness and extraprosodicity as predictors of morphological errors in SLI. Annual Meeting on Phonology 2017 (AMP 2017). NYC, NY, September 2017.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2017. No crossing constraint: Evidence from vowel harmony. Annual Meeting on Phonology 2017 (AMP 2017), poster. NYC, NY, September 2017.
Özçelik, Öner. 2017. Challenges in the second language acquisition of Turkish word-level prosody. International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL). Adana, Turkey, February 2017.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2016. How abstract is Interlanguage phonology? Evidence from Turkish vowel harmony. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America. Urbana-Champaign, IL. September 2016.
Sprouse, Rex & Öner Özçelik. 2016. L2 acquisition of exceptional vowel harmony in Turkish. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2016 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, January 2016.
*Arman, Rahman, Amber Kent, & Özçelik, Öner. 2016. Project-Based Language Learning Instruction in an Online Language Learning Environment. Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics 2 (ConCALL 2). Bloomington, IN, October 2016.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2015. Acquisition of Turkish vowel harmony in low-frequency and zero-frequency contexts: Evidence for Full Access in L2 phonology. Boston University Conference on Language Development 40 (BUCLD 40). Boston, MA, November 2015.
*Kent, Amber, Rahman Arman & Öner Özçelik. 2015. Developing an Asynchronous Online Language Course for Dari and Pashto. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). San Diego, CA. November, 2015.
Özçelik, Öner. 2015. L2 acquisition of Default-to-Opposite-Edge stress: the case of Mongolian. Paper to be presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 2015), Aix-en-Provence, France, September.
Özçelik, Öner. 2015. Acquiring the world’s most difficult stress pattern: L2 Khalkha Mongolian and “Conflicting Directionality”. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 13). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 2015.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2014. L2 acquisition of Turkish vowel harmony and knowledge of the universal 'No Crossing Constraint'. Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development 39 (BUCLD 39). Boston, MA, November 2014.
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2014. L2 acquisition of Turkish vowel harmony and knowledge of the ‘No Crossing Constraint’. Paper presented at Second Language Research Forum 33 (SLRF 33), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. October, 2014.
Özçelik, Öner. 2014. Word stress in Turkic languages: the case of Kazakh, Uyghur and Uzbek. Paper to be presented at the 17th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL 17). MIT, Rouen, France, September 2014.
Özçelik, Öner. 2014. ‘Stress’ or ‘Intonational prominence’? Word accent in Kazakh, Turkish, Uyghur and Uzbek. Paper presented at the 10th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 10). MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
Özçelik, Öner. 2013. L1 effects on the acquisition of prosody in Kazakh, Turkish and Uzbek: evidence for UG. Paper presented at Second Language Research Forum 32 (SLRF 32), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. October.
Özçelik, Öner. 2013. L2 acquisition of word stress: towards a prosodic acquisition path. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2013 (GALA 2013), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, September 2013.
Belikova, Alyona, Tanja Kupisch, Deniz Akpinar, Oner Ozcelik, Ilse Stangen & Lydia White. 2013. Definiteness effect in adult German-Turkish bilinguals. Paper presented at Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism 2013 (IAM 2013), University of Calgary, Alberta, August 2013.
Özçelik, Öner. 2013. L2 acquisition of stress: the case of Turkish. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 12). University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 2013.
Özçelik, Öner. 2013. Selectivity in L3 transfer: effects of typological and linguistic similarity in the L3 Turkish of Uzbek-Russian bilinguals. Paper presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World 36 (GLOW 36). Lund University, Lund, Sweden, April 2013.
Kupisch, Tanja, Deniz Akpinar, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Öner Özçelik, Ilse Stangen, Lydia White. 2011. Language differentiation and knowledge of the DE in adult German-Turkish bilinguals. Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingualism 8 (ISB 8). Oslo, Norway, June.
Özçelik, Öner. 2011. Redefining the prosodic hierarchy. Paper presented at Phonology in the 21^st Century: In Honor of Glyne Piggott. Montreal, Canada, May.
Nagai, Miho & Öner Özçelik. 2011. Syntactic positions of Turkish bare NPs: The view from Aspect and Prosody. Poster presented at the 29th West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29). Tucson, AZ, April.
Nagai, Miho & Öner Özçelik. 2011. Nominal positions in Turkish. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 47). Chicago, IL, April.
Nagai, Miho & Öner Özçelik. 2011. Syntactic positions of bare NPs in Turkish: Some implications from Aspect and Prosody. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Penn Linguistic Colloquium (PLC 35). Philadelphia, PA, March.
Özçelik, Öner. 2010. L2 acquisition of higher-level prosodic structures and the role of UG. Paper presented at the 4th Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 4), Toronto, Canada, September.
White, Lydia, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch & Öner Özçelik. 2010. There aren't many difficulties with definiteness: Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. Paper presented at the 4th Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 4), Toronto, Canada, September.
Özçelik, Öner. 2010. L2 acquisition of sentential stress: Implications for UG. Paper presented at New Sounds 2010, Poznan, Poland, May.
Özçelik, Öner. 2010. English/Turkish interlanguage prosody: Implications for UG, Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access. Paper presented at the 2010 Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2010), Tokyo, Japan, March.
Özçelik, Öner & Miho Nagai. 2010. Multiple subject positions: A case of perfect match between syntax and prosody. Paper presented at the 28th West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 28). University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, February.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. Exceptions in stress assignment: Feet in input. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 40). MIT, Cambridge, MA, November.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. L2 acquisition of a semantic parameter at the semantics-syntax-discourse interface. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2009 biennial conference (GALA 2009). Lisbon, Portugal, September.
Belikova, Alyona, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik & Lydia White. 2009. Definiteness in positive and negative existentials in the L2 English of Russian speakers. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2009 biennial conference (GALA 2009). Lisbon, Portugal, September.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. Learnability in the L2 acquisition of quantification. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 2009), Cork, Ireland, September.
Özçelik, Öner & Miho Nagai. 2009. Possible syntactic subject positions in Turkish: Evidence from phonology. Paper presented at the Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6). Nagoya, Japan, August/September.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. Capturing the lawful behavior of exceptional stress: Prosodic faithfulness constraints. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2009). Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. Scope ambiguity in child language. Poster presented at the Mind-Context Divide: Interfaces in Language Acquisition workshop, University of Iowa, IA, April/May.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. L2 acquisition of scope: Testing the Full Transfer Full Access Hypothesis. Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 10), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, March.
Özçelik, Öner. 2009. Exceptions are not exceptions: Towards a unified analysis of Turkish stress. Paper presented at the Montreal Ottawa Toronto Phonology Workshop 2009 (MOT 2009), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, February.
White, Lydia, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch & Öner Özçelik. 2008. Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development 33 (BUCLD 33), Boston University, Boston, MA, November.
Özçelik, Öner. 2008. Scope of negation and quantification in child language. Paper presented at the Psycholinguistics Short Conference (Psychoshorts 2008), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October.
Özçelik, Öner. 2008. Children’s scope assignment. Poster presented at the 3rd Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 3). University of Connecticut, Connecticut, September.
Belikova, Alyona, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik & Emily Sadlier-Brown. 2008. Monosyllabic fillers as proto-syntactic devices: Evidence from a bilingual German-English child. Poster presented at the 3rd Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 3). University of Connecticut, Connecticut, September.
Özçelik, Öner. 2008. Children’s scope assignment: A Relevance Theoretic account. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2009), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June.
Özçelik, Öner. 2008. Second language acquisition of relative clauses: A unified Antisymmetric account. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference (AAAL 2008), Washington, DC, March.

Grants, Awards & Honors:

Grants received or administered:

2018 - 2022: PI, National Language Resource Center (LRC), Title VI Grant. Directing Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), US Department of Education - $767,072.00 over a period of four years (highest amount received among all national LRCs)

2018 – 2019 Recently Tenured Working Group Award (selected from all units and schools at Indiana University), Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University - $8,000.00

2018: Co-PI, Indiana University Ostrom grant for conference organization: for the conference “Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 9” – $6,000 (one time)

2017-2018: Co-PI, Indiana University College of Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) grant for conference organization: for the conference “Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 9” – $6,000 (one time)

2015 – 2016: Principal PI, Indiana University Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Phase I Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Grant: for teaching/learning-related research, titled ‘Determining effectiveness of Content Based Instruction in an online language learning environment’ (with Amber Kent and Rahman Arman as other project members)

2014 - 2018: PI, National Language Resource Center (LRC), Title VI Grant. Directing Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), US Department of Education - $739,200.00 over a period of four years

2014: PI, Indiana University Ostrom grant for creative scholarly, artistic and pedagogical activities - $5,000 (one time)

2013 - 2014: PI, Indiana University College of Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) grant for conference organization: for a conference on the “acquisition of Central Asian languages” – $3,000 (one time)

2012 - 2013: Director/PI, Mellon Innovating International Research, Teaching and Collaboration Innovative Workshop grant (Andrew W Mellon Foundation), for the organization of an “Intensive Workshop on Distance Teaching and Learning for Less Commonly Taught and Critical Languages” at IU - $5,000.00 (one time)

2012 - 2013: Director/PI, Indiana National Guard grant for the organization of a seven-day seminar under CeLCAR on Afghan Languages and Cultures. - $13,403.00 (one time)

2012 - 2014: Director/PI, National Language Resource Center (LRC), Title VI Grant. Directing Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), Department of Education - $168,681.00 per year (renewable)

2012-2013: Chief Applied Linguist, Indiana University Turkish/Turkic Flagship Program, National Security Education Program (NSEP), Department of Defense - $500,000.00 per year (renewable)

2012 Spring: Interim Director, Indiana University Turkish/Turkic Flagship Program, National Security Education Program (NSEP), Department of Defense - $500,000 per year (renewable)

Teaching Awards:

2015 Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University (nominated by departmental award committee; selected by the Faculty Advisory Board of the School of Global and International Studies)
2013 Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University (nominated by the department; selected by the College of Arts and Sciences)
2008 Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award, McGill University
2005 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Teaching Award Finalist, University of Pittsburgh

Selected Awards:

2019 Language Acquisition: 2019 recipient of the Best Paper Award of the journal Language Acquisition, for papers published in 2018, with the paper ‘Universal Grammar and Second Language Phonology: Full Transfer/Prevalent Access in the L2 Acquisition of Turkish “stress” by English and French Speakers’ – paper will be highlighted on the Language Acquisition website, in addition to monetary award and availability for free
2019 Second Language Research:Best paper in the Most Recent Two Years Award of the journal Second Language Research, runner-up, for papers published in 2017 and 2018, with the paper ‘Emergent knowledge of a universal phonological principle in the L2 acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish: a ‘four’-fold poverty of the stimulus in L2 acquisition’ (with Prof. Rex Sprouse) published in 2017.
2017 SGIS Faculty Research Grant, $2500
2010 Lara Riente Memorial Prize, Department of Linguistics, McGill University
2009 EUROSLA student presenter award, Cork, Ireland
2006 Robert T. Henderson Endowment Fund Award, University of Pittsburgh
2004 Ranked 1st among graduates in Faculty of Education, Boğaziçi University
2004 Ranked 1st among graduates in the Department of Foreign Language Education, Boğaziçi University