Ali Çağan Kaya: A personal blog on linguistics

Wug/Welcome!

Welcome to my personal website, I hope you will enjoy your stay!


Who am I?

About me: My name is Çağan [t͡ʃɑˈan]. I am currently majoring in Linguistics at Hacettepe University, Türkiye, and working as a research intern at the AU-BRC laboratories. My academic interests mainly revolve around the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and computer science. My research focuses on phonetics and phonology, vowel harmony, computational methods for language processing, and statistical analysis techniques. I conduct most of my work in laboratory environments using empirical methods. I am a strong advocate for open science and open-source development, and I actively create tools and applications to support and streamline linguistic research. Outside of academia, I enjoy traveling, fishing, photography, coding, wearing colorful shirts, and playing the guitar. You can find my detailed CV here: Curriculum Vitæ

I am the president and editor-in-chief of the Hacettepe University Linguistics Community and its website.

I am currently working on developing two applications called VowSpace and Praanscribe, along with a research project funded by TÜBİTAK and two phonetics projects.

You can contact me at my email addresses you can find anywhere. (I get too much spam if I share them here, unfortunately.)

My brain:

This is an MRI scan of my brain, taken with the help of dear Dr. Mısır at the Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Center of Excellence.

It’s eerie to think that everything you are reading here came from there. Pretty cool, right?

If you send me an email, I will respond! However, I can’t guarantee replies to every direct message or call on social media. I receive quite a few, and it can be hard to keep track! 🙂

My email consists of the two parts of my first name followed by the initial of my surname @gmail.com. You can find it elsewhere; I would rather not write it here publicly, as I tend to get too much spam when I do.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali-Kaya-40
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9386-9766
GitHub: https://github.com/alicagank/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-çağan-kaya/
Curriculum Vitaæ: https://alicagankaya.com/cv


Conferences I will be attending this year

See more on the conferences page!

Conference NameLocationDate
*19. Dilbilim Öğrenci Konferansıİstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeApril 3rd, 2026
**13th Novi Sad Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and Clinical Linguistic Research (PNCLR)University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, SerbiaApril 25th, 2026
79th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS)Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyMay 14-16th, 2026

1: Nuran Orhan, Ali Çağan Kaya
TBA

2: Looking for Harmony: Eye-Tracking Evidence for Morphophonological Mismatches in Turkish
Ali Çağan Kaya, Berkay Bostan, İpek Pınar Uzun
Note: I will also be joining the 6th International School in Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics from the 20th to the 24th of April.


Page index

VowSpace is an open-source desktop application developed with the aim of acquiring, visualizing, normalizing, comparing, and linguistically analyzing vowel formant frequencies from audio files and/or datasets.

A detailed list of the talks, conference proceedings & presentations I had given with the resources that I had used.

A podcast in Turkish in which me and my friends talk about linguistics in a fun and casual way.

Relatively small programs and scripts I have developed, which I hope will aid linguistics students and colleagues.

I wanted to dedicate this page to them as they are brilliant people and we had a lot to share!

My detailed curriculum vitæ.


My latest posts