Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
– Michael Jordan
Alongside our individual studies, I work with a great team of like-minded linguists! This page is dedicated to our collaborative projects and serves as a shoutout to my dear colleagues.
Ali Çağan Kaya
Student at Hacettepe University
Researcher at AU-BRC, Phonetics Laboratory
Academic Coordinator at Hacettepe University Linguistics Community
Research interests
Phonetics & phonology, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, research methodology, Esperanto, constructed languages
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Ongoing Research
Kaya, Praanscribe: A Semi-Automatic, AI Powered Segmentation Tool for Praat
Kaya & Yağlı, Meta-analytical study of vowel formants in Turkish: Methodological differences and their implications (Türkçede ünlü formantlarının meta-analitik incelenmesi: Yöntembilimsel farklılıklar ve etkileri)
Uzun, Kaya, Güven, Bostan, [UNDER REVIEW]
Kaya & Yağlı, [UNDER REVIEW]
Projects
TÜBİTAK 2209-A: Vowel Formant Frequencies of Standard Turkish
Supervisor: Dr. Emre Yağlı (Hacettepe University)
Role: Executive and Researcher
Description: In this project, a methodological approach to analyzing Turkish vowel formants will be presented, and inconsistencies identified in previous studies will be addressed through a systematic and replicable framework. A newly developed dataset of 1,280 vowel tokens from 20 speakers will be used to demonstrate the application of VowSpace, an open-source tool developed for this research, for the visualization and normalization of vowel data using the Lobanov method. Beyond Turkish, it will be shown how careful methodological design can be used to enhance cross-linguistic phonetic research and contribute to the broader typological literature on vowel systems.
TÜBİTAK 1002-A: Acoustic Phonological Aspects of the Production Processes of Turkish Compound Words in Spoken Language
Supervisor: Dr. İpek Pınar Uzun (Ankara University)
Role: Scholar – Data Collection and Analysis
Description: The project is on the acoustic and phonological characteristics of compound word production in Turkish, focusing on spoken language data to provide insights into phonetic and suprasegmental variation.
Publications
Kaya, A. Ç. (2024). VowSpace: A Vowel Formant Analysis Application [Poster presentation]. 37th National Linguistics Congress, Kocaeli, Türkiye. The Linguistics Association.
Berkay Bostan
Student at Hacettepe University
Researcher at AU-BRC, Phonetics Laboratory
Research interests
Phonetics & phonology, cognitive linguistics, spoken corpora, language documentation
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Ege Güven
Student at Ankara University
Researcher at AU-BRC, Phonetics Laboratory
Research interests
Phonetics & phonology, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, research methodology, Esperanto, constructed languages
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