Research

I have managed to put some of my recent papers online, and placed links to those that are already available on the Internet . Click on the title of the paper you would like to download:

 

Journal Article Awards 

2019  Language Acquisition: 2019 (first) 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 open access/free download

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.

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

(Only published or in press listed. Papers 'under review' are not included)  

Özçelik, Öner. In Press. L2 Acquisition of a complex stress pattern: UG-constrained learning paths in Khalkha Mongolian. Frontiers in Psychology.

Özçelik, Öner. In Press. Prosody in Turkish. In Stress in Morphologically Complex Languages (Eds: Harry van der Hulst & Ksenia Bogomolets). Oxford University Press.

Charles, Sherman & Öner Özçelik. In Press. The articulatory-acoustic characteristics of harmonic and disharmonic laterals in Turkish. Indiana Working Papers in Speech Sound Articulation.  

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. 2020. 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. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 223-233.

Özçelik, Öner. 2019. The scope of the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6: 878-882. 

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.

Özçelik, Öner. 2018. Interface Hypothesis and the L2 acquisition of quantificational scope at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Language Acquisition 25:2. 213-223.

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 (ed.), 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 & Rex Sprouse. 2016. Acquisition of Turkish vowel harmony in low-frequency and zero-frequency contexts: Evidence for Full Access in L2 phonology. In Jennifer Scott and Deb Waughtal (eds.), 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.), In David Stringer et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2015) (pp. 161-176). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.  

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 & Rex Sprouse. 2015. L2 acquisition of Turkish vowel harmony and knowledge of the universal 'No Crossing Constraint'. In Elizabeth Grillo, Kyle Jepson, and Maria LaMendola (eds.), Proceedings supplement of the Boston University Conference on Language Development 39 (BUCLD 39).  

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. 

Nagai, Miho & Öner Özçelik. 2014. Nominal positions in Turkish. Papers from the 47thAnnual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 47) (pp. 309-320). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.  

Özçelik, Öner. 2013. Selectivity in L3 transfer: effects of typological and linguistic similarity in the L3 Turkish of Uzbek-Russian bilinguals. Generative Linguistics in the Old World 36 Spring Newsletter (GLOW 36 Spring Newsletter).      

Özçelik, Öner. 2013. Exceptions in stress assignment: Feet in input. In Seda Kan, Claire Moore-Cantwell & Robert Staubs (eds.), Papers from the 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 40) (pp.107-120). Amherst, MA: GLSA.  

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 

Özçelik, Öner. 2012. Redefining the prosodic hierarchy. Phonology in the 21st century: In honor of Glyne Piggott (pp. 1-13). Montreal, Canada: McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. 

Nagai, Miho & Öner Özçelik. 2012. Syntactic positions of Turkish bare NPs: The view from aspect and prosody. In Jaehoon Choi et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29) (pp. 81-89). Tucson, AZ: Coyote Papers: University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics. 

White, Lydia, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik. 2012. There aren't many difficulties with definiteness: Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. In Mihaela Pirvulescu, María Cristina Cuervo, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Jeffrey Steele, and Nelleke Strik (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2010) (pp. 266-276). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

Özçelik, Öner & Miho Nagai. 2011. Multiple subject positions: A case of perfect match between syntax and prosody. In Mary Byram & Barbara Tomaszewicz (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 28) (pp. 303-312). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  

 Belikova, Alyona, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik & Lydia White. 2010. Definiteness in positive and negative existentials in the L2 English of Russian speakers. In Joao Costa, Ana Castro, Maria Lobo & Fernanda Pratas (eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Selected Proceedings of GALA 2009 (pp. 28-39). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Özçelik, Öner. 2009. L2 acquisition of scope: Testing the Full Transfer Full Access Hypothesis. In Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul & Annie Tremblay (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009) (pp. 168-179). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

Özçelik, Öner. 2009. Children’s scope assignment. In Jean Crawford, Koichi Otaki, and Masahiko Takahashi (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008) (pp. 188-199). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

Belikova, Alyona, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik & Emily Sadlier-Brown. 2009. Fillers as functional categories: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition. In Jean Crawford, Koichi Otaki, and Masahiko Takahashi (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008) (pp. 1-12). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

White, Lydia, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch & Öner Özçelik. 2009. Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English. In Jane Chandlee, Michelle Franchini, Sandy Lord & Gudrun-Marion Rheiner (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 33) (pp. 622-633). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  

 

Books

 Özçelik, Öner & Amber Kennedy Kent. In Press. Designing Effective Language Learning Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages. Georgetown University Press.

Presentations (refereed/peer-reviewed)

(Pedagogical presentations indicated with an asterisk) 

 Dolatian, Hossep & Özçelik, Öner. 2021. Cyclic overriding of irregular stress in Armenian. The 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM 28).

Özçelik, Öner & Rex Sprouse. 2021. No Crossing Constraint and Turkish vowel harmony: UG and adult native speakers. 9th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (GALANA 9). University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Özçelik, Öner. 2021. Dünya Dillerini Daha İyi Temsil Eden bir Prosodi Sıradüzeni Gereksinimi. (The need for a crosslinguistically more representative Prosodic Hierarchy). 34. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı (The 34th National Linguistics Conference), Ankara, Turkey.  

Özçelik, Öner. Accepted. Language transfer at the pragmatics-semantics-syntax interface: role of input, UG, interfaces and pragmatic principles. 20th Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference. Bloomington, IN, April 2020. (Postponed due to Covid-19). 

Sherman, Charles & Öner Özçelik. 2020. The articulatory characteristics of harmonic and disharmonic laterals in Turkish. Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language 9 (Ultrafest 9). Bloomington, IN, May 2020. 

*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. 

*Özçelik, Öner. 2019. Preparing pedagogical materials for less commonly taught languages. Joint LRCs Display Workshop, 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 24th 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. 52nd 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 21st 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.  

 

Select Invited Presentations

 Özçelik, Öner. 2020. Keynote at the Fifth Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkish (Tu+ 5). University of Delaware, USA. February. 

Özçelik, Öner. 2020. Panelist for the Central Asian Linguistics session. Association for Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Annual Conference. Bloomington, IN, USA. February. 

Özçelik, Öner. 2018. Dichotomy in the acquisition of word- versus phrase-level prominence. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, October. 

*Özçelik, Öner, Dave Baer, Amber Kenndy Kent, Rahman Arman, Sukhrob Karimov. 2015. (Invited Talk). Workshop on Online LCTL Teaching, Bloomington, IN, May. 

*Guilfoil, Michelle, Juliana Wijaya, Lenore Yaffee Garcia, & Öner Özçelik. 2014. Making language learning relevant and compelling. (Joint presentation with U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office). Language Matters strand, Global Learning Conference, Asia Society. Brooklyn, NY, June, 2014. 

Özçelik, Öner. 2013. (Invited Talk) L2 acquisition of word-level prosody. Second Language Studies (SLS) Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, January. 

Özçelik, Öner. 2012. (Invited Talk) A path for the L2 acquisition of stress. Studies on normal and impaired language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children and adults, Konstanz, Germany, July.