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Curriculum Vitae
Ali Çağan Kaya
ali-kaya@hacettepe.edu.tr | alicagankaya.com | ORCID: 0009-0007-9386-9766
EDUCATION
2022–present | B.A., English Linguistics at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye, GPA (current): 3.43/4.00
2018–2022 | High School, Isparta Anadolu Lisesi, Isparta, Türkiye, graduated with an average of 99.02/100 (Valedictorian)
ABSTRACT-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Kaya, A. Ç., Bostan, B., & Uzun, İ. P. (2025, September). Eyes on the pupil size: Pupillary sensitivity to morphophonological
mismatches in Turkish [Oral presentation]. 22nd International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir,
Türkiye.
Kaya, A. Ç., & Yağlı, E. (2025, September). Acoustic analysis of Turkish vowel formants: A methodological perspective [Oral
presentation]. 22nd International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Türkiye.
Kaya, A. Ç., & Yağlı, E. (2025, June). Türkçede ünlü formantlarının meta-analitik incelenmesi: Yöntembilimsel farklılıklar ve
etkileri [A meta-analytical study of vowel formants in Turkish: Methodological differences and their implications] [Oral
presentation]. 38th National Linguistics Congress, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Türkiye.
Kaya, A. Ç. (2025, May). Acoustic analysis of Turkish vowel formants: A methodological perspective [Oral presentation]. 77th
Studentischen Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
Kaya, A. Ç. (2025, May). Praanscribe: A semi-automatic, AI-powered segmentation tool for Praat [Poster presentation].
Student Conference on Linguistics 2025, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Türkiye.
Kaya, A. Ç. (2024, June). VowSpace: A vowel formant analysis application [Poster presentation]. Student Conference on
Linguistics 2024, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Türkiye.
Kaya, A. Ç. (2024, May). VowSpace: Bir ünlü formant analizi uygulaması [VowSpace: A vowel formant analysis application]
[Poster presentation]. 37th National Linguistics Congress, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Türkiye.
Kaya, A. Ç. (2024, March). VowSpace: Bir ünlü formant analizi uygulaması [VowSpace: A vowel formant analysis application]
[Oral presentation]. 17th Student Conference of Linguistics, Ankara University, Ankara, Türkiye.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Kaya, A. Ç., & Yağlı, E. (in press). Türkçede ünlü formantlarının meta-analitik incelenmesi: Yöntembilimsel farklılıklar ve etkileri
[A meta-analytical study of vowel formants in Turkish: Methodological differences and their implications]. In Çağdaş Dilbilim
Yazıları I: İMÜ Dilbilimi 15. Yıl Armağanı.
PRACTICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC TRAINING
Ankara University Brain Research Center (AUBAUM / AU-BRC), Phonetics Laboratory & Ankara University Linguistics
Laboratory, Ankara, Türkiye
Research Internship | 27/09/2024–31/10/2024 | Supervisor: Dr. İpek Pınar Uzun
– Trained in psycholinguistic and cognitive research methodologies, including experimental design; use of the EyeLink 1000+
eye-tracking system and Experiment Builder software for data collection; and pupillometric preprocessing and statistical
modelling (LMM, GAMM) of the data for quality control and analyses.
– Assisted in acoustic data collection using Praat, contributing to projects on vowel formants and prosodic analyses with
customised scripts.
36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2025) — Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum,
Germany | Participant | 28/07/2025–08/08/2025
– Attended intensive courses on logic, linguistics, data science, and computation. Engaged in interdisciplinary training at the
interface of linguistics, philosophy, and mathematics.
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCHOLARLY HELP
(2025–present) TÜBİTAK 2209-A (1919B012414090) “Ölçünlü Türkçenin Ünlü Formant Frekansları” (The Vowel Frequencies
of Standard Turkish)
Role: Executive and researcher
Supervisor: Dr. Emre Yağlı
Conducted a meta-analysis of the previous research, established a standardised methodological framework for cross-study
formant comparison, developed the formant analysis tool “VowSpace”, collected and analysed data from 20 speakers of
standard Turkish.(2024–2025) TÜBİTAK 1002-A (223K318) “Türkçede Bileşik Sözcüklerin Sözlü Dilde Üretim Süreçlerine İlişkin Akustik
Sesbilgisel Görünümler” (Acoustic Phonological Aspects of the Production Processes of Turkish Compound Words in Spoken
Language)
Role: Raw data collection and annotation using Praat
Supervisor and executive: Dr. İpek Pınar Uzun
SKILLS
Data Acquisition: Eye Tracking, Pupillometry
Data Analysis: R; linear mixed-effects models (LMM); generalised additive mixed models (GAMM)
Linguistic Tools: Praat, ELAN
Scripting, Programming, and Typesetting Languages: Proficient in Praat scripting, JavaScript, LaTeX and Python
Languages: Turkish (Native), English (C1) (TOEFL: 104), Esperanto (B2) (self-assessed), French (A1) (self-assessed),
German (A1) (self-assessed)
SOFTWARE AND CORPORA
VowSpace (https://github.com/alicagank/VowSpace/): A Python-based tool for vowel formant acquisition, visualisation and
normalisation. (Developer)
Praanscribe (https://github.com/alicagank/praanscribe/): A semi-automatic segmentation tool for Praat using Whisper.
(Developer)
Meta-analysis of Turkish vowels (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UA465) [Data]: A meta-analysis of 22 studies on Turkish
vowel formants, examining how methodological differences affect acoustic measurements of F1 and F2. The dataset was
shared on the Open Science Framework platform.
Acoustic analysis of Turkish vowel formants (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GRJTX) [Data]: Raw and normalised data from
20 native speakers of Turkish using the proposed method in Kaya & Yağlı, 2025. The dataset was shared on the Open
Science Framework platform.
EDUCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC TALKS
Ali Çağan Kaya, Emre Yağlı, “Ölçünlü Türkçenin Ünlü Formantları” (Formants of Standard Turkish) at Hacettepe University
Contemporary Turkish Dialects and Literatures Department as a colloquium talk (15/10/25)
Ali Çağan Kaya, workshop “Dilbilim ve Yazılım” (Linguistics and Software) at Linguistics Student Platform, Türkiye (05/10/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWm7vEPOvA
Ali Çağan Kaya, Esperanto Education Module at Hacettepe University Linguistics Community (23/04/23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao9GNhaw2L0
RELEVANT COURSEWORK AND CERTIFICATES
Certificate: Deneysel Psikodilbilime Giriş (Introduction to Experimental Psycholinguistics), CogIst, taught by Gülfem Sarı — 12-
hour course on empirical research methods in psycholinguistics (20/09/2024–10/10/2024)
MEDIA, OUTREACH AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Ateş, B. (2024). Les personnages du campus – Ali Çağan Kaya (Rapport). Sérendipité, journal of the Communauté Culturelle
Française (Fransız Kültür Topluluğu), Hacettepe University. Multilingual interview (French, Turkish, and English).
MEMBERSHIPS AND SCHOLARLY AFFILIATIONS
Hacettepe University Linguistics Community
– President, 2025–present
– Academic Coordinator, 2024–2025
– Member, 2023–present
Student Member, International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) (2025–present)
Student Member, Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) (2024–present)
Member, Universala Esperanto-Asocio (UEA) (Universal Esperanto Association) (2024–present)
Member, Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo (TEJO) (World Esperanto Youth Organization) (2024–present)
EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE
Book review in Esperanto, ”Esperanto kaj plurlingva estonteco” (Esperanto and a Multilingual Future), Turka Stelo #63 Marto
(03/03/2021)
Co-Host & Producer, Hacettepe University Linguistics Community’s “Ders Çıkışı Dilbilim” (Linguistics After Class) PodcastEditor-in-chief at Hacettepe University Linguistics Community’s Website: https://hulinguistics.com/
Member, World Cube Association (2018–present)
Volunteer, Rode Kruis Nederland Ready2Help, Abcoude, Utrecht, Netherlands (03/02/2024)
Last updated: 25/12/2025