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Faculty :: Öner Özçelik, PhD

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Office: Eigenmann Hall 702
Lab: Eigenmann Hall 713
Phone: (812) 856-1159
E-mail: oozcelik@indiana.edu
Director, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Turkish/Turkic Phonology and Language Acquisition Lab, Indiana University
Chief Applied Linguist, Turkish/Turkic Flagship Program of the Department of Defense

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 (with an emphasis on Turkish)
Turkish and Turkic languages
phonology and phonetics (with an emphasis on prosody)
prosody-syntax interface
phonology-morphology interface



Publication Highlights

  • White, L., A. Belikova, P. Hagstrom, T. Kupisch, Ö. Özçelik. Accepted.  Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition: Affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Özçelik, Ö. In press. Exceptions in stress assignment: Feet in input. In S. Kan et al. (eds.), Papers from the 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 40). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
  • Nagai, M. & Ö. Özçelik. In press. Syntactic positions of Turkish bare NPs: The view from Aspect and Prosody. In Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29). Tucson, AZ: Coyote Papers: University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics.
  • Nagai, M. & Ö. Özçelik. In press. Nominal positions in Turkish. In Papers from the 47thAnnual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 47). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • White, L., A. Belikova, P. Hagstrom, T. Kupisch, Ö. Özçelik. In press. Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 4). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2011. L2 acquisition of sentential stress: Implications for UG. In K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, et al. (eds.), Achievements and perspectives in SLA of speech (pp. 217-229). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2011. English/Turkish interlanguage prosody: Implications for UG, Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access. In Y. Otsu (ed.), Proceedings of the 10th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2010) (pp. 221-237). Tokyo, Japan: Hituzi Publishing.
  • Özçelik, Ö. & M. Nagai. 2011. Multiple subject positions: A case of perfect match between syntax and prosody. In M. Byram et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 28) (pp. 303-312). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2010. L2 acquisition of a semantic parameter at the semantics-syntax-pragmatics interface. In J. Costa et al. (eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009 (pp. 353-365). Cambridge, UK: CSP.
  • Belikova, A., P. Hagstrom, T. Kupisch, Ö. Özçelik & L. White. 2010. Definiteness in positive and negative existentials in the L2 English of Russian speakers. In J. Costa et al. (eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009 (pp. 28-39). Cambridge, UK: CSP.
  • Özçelik, Ö. & M. Nagai. 2010. Possible syntactic subject positions in Turkish: Evidence from Phonology. In H. Maezawa et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 61.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. L2 acquisition of scope: Testing the Full Transfer Full Access Hypothesis. In T. Ionin et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 2009) (pp. 168-179). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. Children’s scope assignment. In J. Crawford et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008) (pp. 188-199). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Belikova, A., T. Kupisch, Ö. Özçelik & E. Sadlier-Brown. 2009. Fillers as functional categories: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition. In J. Crawford et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008) (pp. 1-12). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. Children’s scope assignment: A Relevance Theoretic account. In S. Jones (ed.), Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2008).
  • White, L, A. Belikova, P. Hagstrom, T. Kupisch & Ö. Özçelik. 2009. Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English. In J. Chandlee et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (pp. 622-633). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Selected Refereed/Peer-reviewed Presentations:

  • Kupisch, T., D. Akpinar, A. Belikova, P. Hagstrom, Ö. Özçelik, I. Stangen, L. White. 2011. Language differentiation and knowledge of the DE in adult German-Turkish bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism 8 (ISB 8). Oslo, Norway, June.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2011. Redefining the prosodic hierarchy. Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honor of Glyne Piggott. Montreal, Canada, May.
  • Nagai, M. & Ö. Özçelik. 2011. Syntactic positions of Turkish bare NPs: The view from Aspect and Prosody. WCCFL 29. Tucson, AZ, April.
  • Nagai, M. & Ö. Özçelik. 2011. Nominal positions in Turkish. CLS 47. Chicago, IL, April.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2010. L2 acquisition of higher-level prosodic structures and the role of UG. GALANA 4, Toronto, Canada, Sep.
  • White, L., A. Belikova, P. Hagstrom, T. Kupisch & Ö. Özçelik. 2010. Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. GALANA 4, Toronto, Canada, Sep.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2010. L2 acquisition of sentential stress. New Sounds 2010, Poznan, Poland, May.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2010. English/Turkish interlanguage prosody: Implications for UG, Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access. TCP 2010. Tokyo, Japan, March.
  • Özçelik, Ö. & M. Nagai. 2010. Multiple subject positions: A case of perfect match between syntax and prosody. WCCFL 28. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Feb.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. Exceptions in stress assignment: Feet in input. NELS 40. MIT, MA, Nov.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. L2 acquisition of a semantic parameter at the semantics-syntax-discourse interface. GALA 2009. Lisbon, Portugal, Sep.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. Learnability in the L2 acquisition of quantification. 20th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 20). Cork, Ireland, Sep.
  • Özçelik, Ö. & M. Nagai. 2009. Possible syntactic subject positions in Turkish: Evidence from phonology. Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6). Nagoya, Japan, Aug/Sep.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. Scope ambiguity in child language. Mind-Context Divide: Interfaces in Language Acquisition workshop, University of Iowa, IA, April/May.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2009. L2 acquisition of scope: Testing the Full Transfer Full Access Hypothesis. GASLA 10, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, March.
  • White, L., A. Belikova, P. Hagstrom, T. Kupisch & Ö. Özçelik. 2008. Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English. BUCLD 33. Boston University, Boston, MA, Nov.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2008. Children’s scope assignment. GALANA 3. Univ. Connecticut, CT., Sep.
  • Özçelik, Ö. 2008. Second language acquisition of relative clauses: A unified Antisymmetric account. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference.Washington, DC, March.

 

Grants, Awards & Honors:

Grants:
2011-2014: Chief Applied Linguist, Turkish/Turkic Flagship Program, National Security  
Education Program (NSEP), Department of Defense

Selected Fellowships:
2012 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University
2010 - 2011   Eileen Peters Fellowship, McGill University
2009 - 2010   Principal’s Graduate Fellowship, McGill University
2008 - 2009   Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, McGill University
2006 - 2007   Faculty of Arts Top-Up Fellowship & Recruitment Excellence Fellowship, McGill University

Teaching Awards:
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:
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

Travel Awards:
Faculty of Arts GREAT Travel Grant, McGill University (2009), CRLMB Travel Grant (2008 & 2009), McGill University Faculty of Arts GTS Award (2008), McGill University Alma Mater Travel Award (2008)