Duygu Özge,   PhD


Assistant Professor
Department of Foreign Language Education
Middle East Technical University
Faculty of Education
Office: EFB-28
06800 Ankara

Tel: +90 312 210 7545
e-mail: duyguo[at]metu.edu.tr





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Research

I am interested in the question of how children learn, represent, and understand language. Using real-time methodologies, I investigate the moment-by-moment interpretation of language in children and adults to understand how our language processing mechanism develops from childhood into adulthood. I am also interested in how cognitive or social status (e.g., having an impairment or having a social disadvantage) might impact language processing and other cognitive abilities (e.g., memory, inhibition, prediction). Currently, I am collaborating with Hugh Rabagliati of the University of Edinburgh on language and cognitive development in Syrian refugee children, Umut Özge of METU Cognitive Science on semantic processing in Turkish, and with Joshua Hartshorne of Boston College and Jesse Snedeker of Harvard University on implicit causality and anaphora resolution in Turkish.

Ongoing Projects

March, 2018-March 2020: Language and cognitive development in under-represented populations: A study on refugee children in Turkey. Funded by British Academy, Newton Advanced Fellowship, NAF2R2\100075. In collaboration with Hugh Rabagliati, University of Edinburgh.

September 2016- September 2018: An investigation of neural development accounts: Interpretation of Turkish morphosyntax in young children and Broca's patients. Funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)- 2232 Support Program for Returning Scientists.

Publications

Journal Papers

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2019)(available online as of November 2018). Why wait for the verb? Turkish speaking children use case markers for incremental language comprehension. Cognition, 183, 152-180.

Katsos, N., (...), Özge D., Hassan D., van der Lely H., Sauerland, U., Noveck, I. (2016). Cross-linguistic Constraints in the Order of Acquisition of Quantifiers. PNAS, 113(33), 9244-9249. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601341113. Published online: 1 Aug 2016.

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2015). Incremental processing in head-final child language: on-line comprehension of relative clauses in Turkish-speaking children and adults. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 1230-1243.

Work in Progress

Özge, D., Evcen, E., Kesici, A., Kose, and Turan, S. (in prep.). Pronoun resolution in Turkish Transfer-of-Possession Verbs: The effect of coherence markers, word order, and referential expressions.

Özge, D., Hartshorne, J., and Snedeker, J. (in prep.). Interpretation of implicit causality in Turkish psychological state verbs: The effect of referential expressions.

Özge, D., Vidinli, D., Küntay A., and Snedeker, J. (in prep.). When you eat from the cake, is it all gone? Morphosyntax as a cue to partitivity.

Özge, D., and Marinis, T. (in prep.). Comprehension of Turkish and English relative clauses in monolinguals and child heritage speakers of Turkish.

Özge, D., Özkan, D., Arslan-Uzundağ, B., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (in prep). Turkish speaking children use verbal morphemes for thematic interpretation.

Özge, D., Kornfilt, J., Münster K., Knoeferle P., Küntay A., and Snedeker J. (2016). Comprehension of case in German children: Evidence against a maturational hypothesis.

Ünal, G., Özge, D., Hohenberger, A., and Marinis, T. (in prep). The Turkish version of the Listening Span Test.

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

Özge, D. (2016). What does online parsing in Turkish-speaking children reveal about grammar? In Haznedar, B. and Ketrez, N. (eds.). The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood. Trends in Language Acquisition Research, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Özge, D., Kornfilt, J., Münster K., Knoeferle P., Küntay A., and Snedeker J. (2016). Comprehension of case in German children: Evidence against a maturational hypothesis. In Proceedings of the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD, 40) , Cascadilla Press: Boston-USA.

Özge U., Özge D., and von Heusinger K. (2016). Strong indefinites in Turkish: Salience structure and referential persistence. In A. Holler (ed.) Experimental Perspectives on Anaphora Resolution. Linguistik Aktuell, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Küntay, A. and Özge D. (2014). Word order as a structural cue and word reordering as an interactional process in early language learning. I. Arnon, M. Casillas, C. Kurumada and B. Estigarribia (eds). Language in Interaction. Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, (pp. 231-250). The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Marinis, T. and Özge, D. (2010). Measuring the language abilities of Turkish-English bilingual children using TELD-3. In S. Topbaş and M. Yavaş, editors, Communication Disorders in Turkish, Communication Disorders Across Languages, pages 303-314. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon. (pdf)

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2015). Parallel function hypothesis revisited in the processing of Turkish relative clauses in adults. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference of Turkish Linguistics (ICTL, 2010). (pdf)

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2010). Production of relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children. In Jane Chandlee, Katie Franich, Kate Iserman, and Lauren Keil editors, Proceedings Supplement to the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD, 34), Boston-USA. (pdf)

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2009). Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children. In S. Ay, Ö. Aydın, İ. Ergenç, S. Gökmen, S. İşsever, and D. Peçenek, editors, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Wiesbaden. Harrasowitz Verlag. (pdf)

Katsos, N., Ezeizabarrena, M-J., (...), Özge D., Hassan D., van der Lely H., Sauerland, U., Noveck, I. (2012). The acquisition of quantification across languages: Some predictions. In Proceedings of the 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia Kimball (eds)(pp 258-268). Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.

Conference Presentations

Özge, D., Vidinli, D., Küntay A., and Snedeker, J. (2017). When you eat from the cake, is it all gone? Morphosyntax as a cue to partitivity. Poster presented at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD, 42), November 3-5, 2017, Boston-USA.

Özge, D., Vidinli, D., Küntay A., and Snedeker, J. (2017). When you eat from the cake, is it all gone? Structuring events using morphosyntax as a cue. Poster presented at the MPI Workshop Event Representations in Brain, Language and Development, October 27-28, 2017, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Özge, D., Hartshorne, J., and Snedeker J. (2017). Referential form and implicit causality. Poster presented at the 23rd AMLaP Conference, Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Lancaster, UK, September 7-9 2017.

Özge, D., Hartshorne, J., and Snedeker J. (2017). Salience of experiencer versus stimulus in Turkish psych verbs: A pronoun resolution study. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, 2017.

Özge, D., Kornfilt, J., Münster K., Knoeferle P., Küntay A., and Snedeker J. (2015). German children interpret case to predict the argument structure. 21st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) , 3-5 September, 2015, University of Malta, Valletta.

Özge, D., Kornfilt, J., Münster K., Knoeferle P., Küntay A., and Snedeker J. (2015). Comprehension of case in German children: Evidence against a maturational hypothesis, 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing , March 19-21, 2015, University of Southern California, LA.

Özge D. (2014a). Morpheme-based incremental parsing in child language: A view from Turkish. Paper presented at the Linguistics and Language Conference, LILA 2014, 16-18 June, 2014, Istanbul.

Özge D. (2014b). Is child parsing incremental and predictive? Poster presented at the International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science 2014, 20 April, 2014, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2014). Turkish-speaking children predict upcoming arguments using case marking. Paper presented in the symposium A cross- linguistic look at the use of morphosyntax in child language in the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2014), July 19th-24th, Amsterdam.

Özge D., Özkan, D., Arslan-Uzundağ, B., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2014a). Verbal morphemes guide thematic role assignment in children. Paper presented at the 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference 2014, 3-6 September 2014, Edinburgh.

Özge D.,Özkan, D., Arslan-Uzundağ, B., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2014b). Turkish-speaking children use verbal morphemes to predict argument structure. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, May 2014 Ohio, USA.

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2013a). Turkish children and adults use nominal case marking predictively: An eye-tracking study. Paper presented at the Workshop on the acquisition of case, August 2013. Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2013b). Turkish-speaking children use case predictively. Marseille, France, from 2 to 4 September 2013. Poster presented at the Conference on the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) September 2013, Marseille, France.

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2013). Predictive use of case marking during sentence comprehension: an eye-tracking study of Turkish-speaking children (and adults). Poster presented at CUNY 2013.

Özge D., Özge U. and von Heusinger K. (2013). Turkish optional case marking as an indicator of discourse salience, DGfS Workshop: Information Structural Evidence in the Race for Salience, Postdam, March 2013.

Özge D., Marinis, T. and Zeyrek D. (2012). Online processing of word order variation in Turkish children and adults. Talk presented at 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. Stuttgart, May 2012.

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2012b). A Multiple-Constraints Approach to Relative Clause Processing in Turkish Children. Paper presented at the workshop on the Acquisition and Processing of Turkish Relative Clauses, 16th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, ICTL 2012, METU, Ankara.

Özge D., Özge U. and von Heusinger K. (2012). Discourse structuring potential of optional accusative marking in Turkish. Poster presented in Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP). Italy, September 2012.

Özge, D. (2010). What do children's errors in relative clauses reveal about language acquisition? Paper presented at ICTL 2010, Szeged, Hungary. (pdf)

Özge, D., Marinis, T. (2010). Predictive processing in children acquiring a head final language: evidence from Turkish relative clauses. Poster presented at AMLAP 2010, York, UK. (pdf)

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2010). A conflict between filler-gap accounts and incremental processing: evidence from production and parsing of relative clauses in a head final language. Poster presented at AMLAP 2010, York, UK. (pdf)

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2009). Production of relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children. Poster presented at the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD, 34), Boston-USA. (link)

Özge, D., Marinis, T., and Zeyrek, D. (2008). Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children. Paper presented at the Fourteenth International Conference of Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Antalya, Turkey.

Ünal, G., Özge, D., Hohenberger, A., and Marinis, T. (2009). The Turkish listening span test: a methodological developmental study on Turkish school children. Poster presented at the XIV European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Lithuania. (pdf)

Özge, D. (2007a). Comprehension of Turkish relative clauses in children and adults with agrammatic aphasia. Poster presented at the British Aphasiology Society Biennal International Conference, Edinburgh. (pdf)

Özge, D. (2007b). Regression in child language and aphasia. Paper presented at the Child Language Seminar, Reading.

Özge, D. and Daloğlu, A. (2007). Program evaluation journey: Does continuous change reflect student needs? Paper presented at the Sabancı University School of English Languages International Conference on Foreign Language Education.

Özge, D. and Tekman, G. (2006). Comprehension of Turkish relative clauses in agrammatic Borca's aphasia. Poster presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Ghent. (link)

Invited Talks

Özge, D. (2015) On knowing what lies ahead in an utterance: Predictive language processing in children acquiring verb-final languages. Talk at Language and Communication Research Group, Koç University, 7 December, 2015.

Özge, D. (2015) On knowing what lies ahead in an utterance: Predictive language processing in children acquiring verb-final languages. Talk at Department of Psychology Seminar Series, Boğaziçi University. 10 December, 2015.

Özge D. (2014a). Incremental interpretation of morphosyntax in children acquiring a head-final language. Talk at the Linguistics Workshop at the University of Cologne, 25 June, Cologne.

Özge D. (2014b). Morpheme-based incremental processing in head-final child language. Talk at the Universals Reading Group, Polinsky Lab, Harvard University.

Özge D., Küntay, A., and Snedeker J. (2013). Case marking as a predictive cue to argument structure in Turkish preschoolers. Talk at the Cognitive Psychology Meeting, Boğaziçi University. Istanbul, September 2013.

Özge D. (2012a). Online experimental methods in language processing research. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, May 2012.

Özge D. (2012b). Incremental processing of morphosyntactic cues in Turkish. Talk at the University of Osnabrueck. Osnabrueck, July 2012.

Özge D. and Özge U. (2012a). D-linked indefinites: Backward and forward referential potential. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, January 2012. Özge U. and Özge D. (2012). Accusative indefinites in Turkish: Backward and forward perspectives. Invited talk at the Department of Linguistics, Boğaziçi University. Istanbul, December 2012.

Özge D., Özge U. and von Heusinger K. (2012). Processing optional accusative case in discourse. Invited talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium, Middle East Technical University. Ankara, October 2012.

Özge D. (2012). Incremental processing of morphosyntactic cues in Turkish. Invited talk at the University of Osnabrück. Osnabrück, July 2012.

Özge D., Özge U. and von Heusinger K. (2012). Processing of differential object marking in Turkish. Invited talk at the Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Cologne. Cologne, July 2012.

Özge D. and Özge U.(2012). Discourse properties of Turkish object marking. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, June 2012.

Marzo, D. and Özge D. (2012). Experimental methods within the SFB. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, May 2012.

Özge D., Özge U. and von Heusinger K. (2012). Discourse structuring potential of optional object marking in Turkish. Invited talk at the Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Cologne, May 2012.

Özge D. (2012). Online experimental methods in language processing research. Invited talk at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, May 2012.

Özge D. and Özge U. (2012). D-linked indefinites: Backward and forward referential potential. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, January 2012.

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2011). Processing of case morphology in Turkish-speaking children: Is it incremental or verb-dependent? Talk presented at METU Colloquium on Language Acquisition and Processing in Monolingual or Multilingual Settings, Middle East Technical University. Ankara, December 2011.

Özge D., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2011). Predictive processing of case marking cues in spoken sentence comprehension in Turkish-speaking children. Talk presented at LingDay, Boğaziçi University. Istanbul, May 2011.

Theses

Özge, D. (2010). Mechanisms and Strategies in the Processing and Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Turkish Monolingual and Turkish-English Bilingual Children. PhD thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey. (link)

Kükürt, D. (2004). Comprehension of Turkish Relative Clauses in Broca's Aphasics and Children. Master's thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey.

Past Affiliations

Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Lab for Developmental Studies.

Koç University, Department of Psychology, Language and Communication Development Lab.

University of Reading, Department of Psychology, Clinical Language Sciences.

Stuttgart University, SFB Collaborative Research Center "Incremental Specification in Context"

Collaborators

Hugh Rabagliati , Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
Umut Özge, Cognitive Science Program, Middle East Technical University.
Joshua K. Hartshorne, Department of Psychology, Boston College.
Jesse Snedeker, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
Aylin Küntay, Department of Psychology, Koç University.
Pia Knoeferle, Humboldt University, Berlin
Theo Marinis, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.
Deniz Zeyrek, Cognitive Science Program, Middle East Technical University.
Napoleon Katsos, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
Klaus von Heusinger , Department of German Language and Literature, University of Cologne.
Last updated April, 2018.