Invıted talks

Keynote speaker for Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 6th - 8th November 2023 | X-PPL 2023, University of Zurich

Keynote speaker for Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 6th - 8th November 2023 | X-PPL 2023, University of ZurichSpeaker at HL@Cross 2023: Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies. Istanbul, Turkey, May 29-30, 2023.Keynote speaker for Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 6th - 8th November 2023 | X-PPL 2023, University of Zurich

PsiClub, 17 May 2022, İletişim ve Dil.

Ankara Üniversitesi Psikoloji Öğrencisi Topluluğu, Bu Robot Çok Robot: Dil Öğreniminde Sosyal Robotlar. IV. Bilişsel-Deneysel Psikoloji Günleri, 26-27 Şubat 2022

PÖMYAP 15 Şubat 2022 İnsan-Robot Etkileşimi: Yapay Zekanın Psikolojideki Yeri. Bu Robot Çok Robot: Dil Öğrenmeye Dijital Araçların Katkısı.

Cerrahpaşa Üniversitesi, KBB, Odyoloji. 3 Mayıs 2021. Erken Çocuklukta Dil ve İletişim.

Koç Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Psikiyatri. 21 Nisan 2020. Erken Çocuklukta Dil ve İletişim.

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 6. Psikoloji günleri, 29 Şubat 2020. Dil ve İletişim Gelişimi.

Uppsala University, Turkish and Multilingualism Workshop III, January 24, 2020. Role of Social Interactions in Early Socio-cognitive Development and Language Learning.

Özyeğin Üniversitesi, II. Psychovillage, 21 December, 2019. Erken Çocukluk: Dil ve İletişim ve Zihin ve Teknoloji

VEKAM, 14-15 Kasım, 2019, Çocuklar için Kültürel Miras Çalışmaları Çalıştayı. Kültürel Miras: Erken Çocukluk.

Ege üniversitesi, II. Gelişim Sempozyumu, 20 Eylül, 2019. Dil ve İletişim Gelişimi Çalışmaları. 

University of Zurich, Causality Workshop, July 10-12, 2019. Role of Social Interactions in Early Sociocognitive Development and Language Learning.

Koç Üniversitesi, Otizm Yaz Etkinlikleri, 8 Temmuz 2019. Dil ve İletişim.

Üsküdar Üniversitesi, 3. Psikoloji Günleri, 11-12 Mayıs 2019. Çocuklarda Dil ve İletişim Gelişimi: Nasıl Destekleyebiliriz

Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, Word order and case marking in  sentence processing in children in verb-final languages: Act out and eye tracking studies. Keynote talk in workshop Language diversity meets the brain: Future directions in language sciences, 16 May 2017.

Boğaziçi Siyaset Okulu (Boğaziçi European School of Politics), Çiftdilli ortamlarda zihinsel gelişim ve eğitim (Cognitive development and education in bilingual environments, , 21 May 2016, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Kilyos Sarıtepe Kampüsü

30. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı (30thNational Linguistics Conference), Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve İletişim Becerileri Gelişirken (As Language and Communicative Competence Develops), 13 Mayıs 2016.

1. Psikoloji Günü (1st Psychology Meeting), Işık Üniversitesi, Dil ve İletişim Gelişiminde Çevrenin Etkileri (The Influence of Environment on Language and Communication Development), 5 Aralık 2015

She refers therefore she is: Pragmatics of referential communication. Uppsala University, Sweden, Multilingualism Workshop, December 1-2, 2015.

Functions of evidentials in early child- and child-directed speech in early child-caregiver interactions. Uppsala University, Sweden, Multilingualism Workshop, December 1-2, 2015.

LOT School, Taught a 5-day course on Social Cognition, Input and Language Acquistion, January 19-23, 2014, University of Amsterdam.

Differentiation of evidential functions in Turkish child- and child-directed speech. LingDay, Boğaziçi University, June 8, 2015. (with Berna Uzundağ, Süleyman Taşçı, Ayhan Aksu-Koç).

Is Referential Communication Really That Challenging for Children? (and Why would Cognitive Science Care About That?). 2nd International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, METU, Ankara, April 18, 2015.

Sosyal-Bilişsel Gelişim Bağlamında Dil ve İletişim (Language and Communication in the Context of Social-Cognitive Development). Kemerburgaz University, Psychology Talks, May 7, 2016.

She refers therefore she is: Morphosyntax and pragmatics of referential communication. Plenary talk at the conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, July 18, 2014.

Word order acquisition and interactional learning (with Dr. Duygu Özge), Invited talk for the symposium titled “Language in interaction” at the conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, July 16, 2014.

Prediction during language processing (with Dr. Susanne Brouwer), Educational and Learning Sciences symposium, Utrecht University, July 7, 2014.

Turkish-Dutch bilingual children show memory benefits despite lower linguistic proficiency (with Dr. Elma Blom), Sardes Educational Services, June 23, 2014.

Çiftdilli ortamlarda dil gelişimi (Language development in bilingual environments), Rosarium Foundation, Rotterdam, June 19, 2014.

Language, thought, culture. Lecture for Psychology Now series, Utrecht University, Department of Psychology, June 11, 2014.

Invited final discussion in “Communicative intention in action and gesture”, 4th Nijmenegn Gesture Centre Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, June 3, 2014.

Referential clarity in preschoolers’ linguistic forms: Implications for sociolinguistic development. Invited symposium for 44th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, San Francisco, May 29, 2014.

Erken Çocuklukta Dil, İletişim, Anlatı. İÜ Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Çocuk Psikiyatrisi Seminerleri, May 22, 2014.

İnsan Zihninde Dil(ler) ve İletişim. Koç Üniversity, UNIV-101 Seminerleri, March 26, 2014.

Impact of interaction and feedback on children’s referential communication skills. Yeditepe University, Cognitive Science Seminars, March 7, 2014.

Interactive goals, feedback and training influence children’s referential communication skills. University of Toronto, Developmental Talks, January 30, 2014.

Language and communication development during early years. Özyeğin University, Istanbul. Graduate proseminar course for Applied Developmental Psychology. January 3, 2014.

Development of integration of linguistic knowledge and effective reference in children. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. March 21, 2013.

Word learning opportunities in extended conversational interactions. Part of a symposium titled “Challenges for the field of language development”. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. October 2, 2012.

Learning to talk about chairs (and other things): Emergence and development of language-and-communication in children, Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Inaugural speech. May 22, 2013.

Comments on Mother Tongue and Multilingualism-based Education, Diyarbakır Political and Social Research Institute (DİSA), Ankara. October 5, 2013

Roundtable discussion about research on bilingualism in Turkey and the Netherlands

Educational and Learning Sciences, Utrecht University. October 28, 2013

Development of referential communication: impact of caregiver feedback and interaction, ‘Discourse op Dienstag Series, ‘Development of referential communication: impact of caregiver feedback and interaction’, Institue of Linguistics, Utrecht University. October 29, 2013 

How does extended referential discourse integrate speech and other communicative devices in early child-caregiver Interaction? Keynote speech for Seminar on Socio-cognitive Mechanisms of Symbolic Communication (Dr. Paul Vogt). Tilburg University, Netherlands. January 26, 2012.

When referential introductions (don’t) go awry in preschool children’s narrative discourse. Seminar on Communicative Development (Dr. Danielle Matthews). Sheffield University, UK. January 18, 2012.

Expert comments on “Linguistic results: Orthography and literate structures”. Closing conference of the “Literacy Acquisition in Schools” project (Dr. Christoph Schroeder). Potsdam University, Germany. September 16, 2011.

Where words fall short: Non-speech communicative devices of Turkish toddlers and their caregivers. With Ö.E. Demir & A.B. Ateş Şen. Invited symposium in the Regional Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (Dr. Zeynep Aycan). July 2, 2011.

Predictive processing in children acquiring Turkish. Boğaziçi University, LingDays (Dr. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan). With D. Özge & J. Snedeker. May 31, 2011.

TİGE, Turkish Communicative Development Inventory: The adaptation process and some results. Boğaziçi University, LingDays (Dr. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan). With A. Aksu-Koç. May 31, 2011. 

Dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişimi (“Development of language and communication skills”) Vth Işık Savaşır Symposium of Clinical Psychology. Adnan Menderes University (Dr. Mehmet Eskin). May 19, 2011.

Socio-cognitive development at preschool ages is affected by book-reading interactions. Course on Designing Children’s Books (Dr. Ilgım Veryeri Alaca). May 5, 2011.

Language and communication in early childhood. Early Childhood Development Course, Round II, Netherlands Institute of Higher Education-Ankara (NIHA) & Sardes & ICDI (Dr. Jeroen Aarssen). January 6, 2011. 

Why (we) bother about crosslinguistic experimental work in studying language development. University of Connecticut, Psychology Department (Dr. Letitia Naigles). November 8, 2010.

Language and communication in early childhood: A Turkish emphasis. Early Childhood Development Course, Round I, Netherlands Institute of Higher Education-Ankara (NIHA) & Sardes & ICDI (Dr. Jeroen Aarssen). January 15, 2010. 

Dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişimi (“Development of language and communication skills”) Psychology Days, Okan University (Dr. Dilek Şirvanlı-Özen). April 29, 2010. 

Vocabulary development in 3-year-olds: Contexts and predictors. MOCEV-AÇEP (Mother Child Education Foundation). With N. Baydar, Z. Cemalcılar, F. Gökşen, B. Yağmurlu. November 12, 2009. 

Do Turkish-speaking preschoolers pick up on relative clauses in referential communication? Boğaziçi University, LingDays (Dr. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan). With A. Sarılar. May 27, 2009.

First language development. Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education (Dr. Ayşe Gürel). November 5, 2008.

Making a linguistic choice with audience visual access in mind. Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology. Lyon, France (Dr. Gerlind Hauser-Dr. Danielle Matthews-Dr. Michael Tomasello). April 14, 2009.

Okul öncesi dönemde dil gelişimi (“Language development in preschool years”). METU, Psychology Days. March 12, 2009.

Pragmatic language development. Keynote talk in Language and Communications Disorders Congress (Dr. Pınar Ege). Kuşadası, Aydın. April 30, 2009.

Children’s conversational narratives in preschool settings: Occasions, functions, and structures. Bilgi University, Comparative Literature and Psychology Departments (Dr. Christoph Schroeder & Dr. Diana Sunar). April 11, 2007.

Research in language development: Importance and methods of early assessment. American Hospital, Istanbul (Dr. Gülnihal Şarman). May 12, 2006.

Children’s conversational narratives in preschool settings: Occasions, functions, and structures. Keynote talk for Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Methods and Applications, ESRC Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK (Dr. Hilary Gardner), September 14, 2006.

Young children’s peer interactions and conversations. Data session with B. Köymen. Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Methods and Applications, ESRC Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK (Dr. Hilary Gardner), September 14, 2006.

Language and narrative development during preschool years, Hacettepe University, Deparment of Psychology (Dr. Melike Sayıl), October, 2006.

Expression of causal relations in elicited narrative discourse: A developmental and crosslinguistic account. Cognitive Science Group, Boğaziçi University, November 2002.