The following CeLCAR faculty members have recently presented papers at leading conferences, GASLA, ICTL and ConCALL.
- Director, Öner Özçelik presented his paper Challenges in the second language acquisition of Turkish word-level prosody at the International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL) in Adana, Turkey, in February 2017.
- Director, Öner Özçelik and SLA colleague Rex Sprouse presented their paper How abstract is Interlanguage phonology? Evidence from Turkish vowel harmony at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America conference in Urbana-Champaign, IL in September 2016.
- And developer Rahman Arman, pedagogy specialist Amber Kennedy Kent, and Director Özçelik, Öner presented their paper Project-Based Language Learning Instruction in an Online Language Learning Environment at the Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL 2) at Bloomington, IN, in October 2016.
Additionally, CeLCAR faculty have recently published the following:
Journal article
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.
Book chapter
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. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Conference proceedings:
Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2016. Acquisition of Turkish vowel harmony in low-frequency and zero-frequency contexts: Evidence for Full Access in L2 phonology. Proceedings supplement of the Boston University Conference on Language Development 40 (BUCLD 40).
Özçelik, Öner. 2016. Acquiring the World’s Most Difficult Stress Pattern: L2 Khalkha Mongolian and “Conflicting Directionality”. In David Stringer et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2015), 161-176. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.