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Curriculum Vitæ
Ali Çağan Kaya
[email redacted] | alicagankaya.com | ORCID: 0009-0007-9386-9766
Education
2026–present: M.A. in Linguistics, Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics (TELPh),
Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
2022–2026: B.A. in English Linguistics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye,
GPA: 3.57/4.00, High Honours
2018–2022: High School, Isparta Anadolu Lisesi, Isparta, Türkiye,
GPA: 99.02/100, High Honours, Valedictorian
Scholarships and Awards
2026–2027: SMARTS-UP Graduate Scholarship, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Competitive international scholarship awarded by Université Paris Cité for Master’s-level study.
Total award: €10,000
External Research Funding (N=1)
1. TÜBİTAK 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program
Student Project Lead, Project no. 1919B012414090
Title: Ölçünlü Türkçenin Ünlü Formant Frekansları [The Vowel Formant Frequencies of Standard Turkish] Supervisor: Dr. Emre Yağlı
Time Period: 2025–2026
Award: TRY 9,000
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (N=1)
1. Kaya, A. Ç. (2026). VowSpace: A vowel formant analysis application for phonetic research. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(120), 10189, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.10189
Book Chapters (N=1)
1. Kaya, A. Ç., & Yağlı, E. (2025). Türkçede ünlü formantlarının meta-analitik incelenmesi: Yöntembilimsel farklılıklar ve etkileri. In O. Çınar, F. Başbuğ, & H. Aydemir (Eds.), Çağdaş Dilbilim Yazıları I (Vol. I, pp. 170- 192). Artsürem Publishing. https://doi.org/10.7816/imuling-15-2025-01X008
Abstract-reviewed Conference Presentations (N=10)
10. Kaya, A. Ç., Bostan, B., & Uzun, İ. P. (2026, April). Looking for Harmony: Eye-Tracking Evidence for Morphophonological Mismatches in Turkish [Poster presentation]. 13th Novi Sad Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and Clinical Linguistic Research (PNCLR13), University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
9. Orhan, N., & Kaya, A. Ç. (2026, April). Evaluating the Accuracy of Speech to Text Technologies in Turkish- Accented English [Oral presentation]. 19th Student Conference of Linguistics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
8. 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.
7. 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.
6. 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.
5. Kaya, A. Ç. (2025, May). Acoustic analysis of Turkish vowel formants: A methodological perspective [Oral presentation]. 77. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
4. 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.
3. Kaya, A. Ç. (2024, June). VowSpace: A vowel formant analysis application [Poster presentation]. Student Conference on Linguistics 2024, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Türkiye.
2. 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.
1. 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.
Software and Corpora
VowSpace — Developer
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. Published in JOSS.
GitHub: https://github.com/alicagank/VowSpace/
Praanscribe — Developer
Praanscribe is an open-source Python CLI application that uses Whisper to generate Praat TextGrid annotations for speech recordings, including sentence-level and word-level tiers.
GitHub: https://github.com/alicagank/praanscribe/
Meta-analysis of Turkish Vowels — Dataset
Meta-analysis of 22 studies on Turkish vowel formants, examining methodological effects on F1 and F2 measurements.
OSF: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UA465
Acoustic Analysis of Turkish Vowel Formants — Dataset
Raw and normalised data from 20 native speakers of Turkish using the method proposed in Kaya & Yağlı (2025).
OSF: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GRJTX
Practical Research Experience and Academic Training
2026 Apr. 6th International School in Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics
University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Participant | 20–24 April 2026
2026 Mar. Data Collection Assistant for Nehir Aygül’s PhD Dissertation
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2025 Jul.– 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2025)
2025 Aug. Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Participant | 28 July–8 August 2025
2024–2025 Data Collection and Annotation Assistant for TÜBİTAK 1002-A Project no. 223K318
Ankara University, Linguistics Laboratory, Ankara, Türkiye
Title: 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]
Principal Investigator: Dr. İpek Pınar Uzun
2024 Sep.– Research Internship
2024 Oct. Ankara University Brain Research Center (AÜBAUM / AU-BRC), Phonetics Laboratory & Ankara University Linguistics Laboratory, Ankara, Türkiye
Supervisor: Dr. İpek Pınar Uzun | 27 September–31 October 2024
2024 Sep.– Certificate in Introduction to Experimental Psycholinguistics, CogIst, taught by Gülfem Sarı
2024 Oct. 12-hour course on empirical research methods in psycholinguistics
Academic Talks, Workshops, and Outreach
2025 Oct. Kaya, A. Ç., & Yağlı, E. “Ölçünlü Türkçenin Ünlü Formantları” [Vowel Formants of Standard Turkish].
Colloquium talk, Department of Contemporary Turkish Dialects and
Literatures, Hacettepe University. 15 October 2025.
2024 Oct. Kaya, A. Ç. “Dilbilim ve Yazılım” [Linguistics and Software].
Workshop, Linguistics Student Platform, Türkiye. 5 October 2024.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWm7vEPOvA
2024 Feb. Ateş, B. “Les personnages du campus – Ali Çağan Kaya.”
Interview in Sérendipité, journal of the Communauté Culturelle Française, Hacettepe University.
Multilingual interview in French, Turkish, and English.
2023 Apr. Kaya, A. Ç. Esperanto Educational Module.
Hacettepe University Linguistics Community. 23 April 2023.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao9GNhaw2L0
Skills
Data Acquisition: Eye-tracking; pupillometry; acoustic recording
Data Analysis: R; linear mixed-effects models (LMMs); generalised additive mixed models (GAMMs); emmeans; mgcv; lme4
Linguistic Tools: Praat; ELAN
Programming and
Technical Tools: Python; Praat scripting; JavaScript; LaTeX
Languages: Turkish: Native
English: C1, TOEFL iBT 104
Esperanto: B2, self-assessed
French: A2, self-assessed
German: A1, self-assessed
Memberships and Scholarly Affiliations
2023–2026: Hacettepe University Linguistics Community, Hacettepe University
President, 2025–2026
Academic Coordinator, 2024–2025
Member, 2023–2024
2025–present: International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), Student Member
2024–present: Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW), Student Member
2024–present: Universala Esperanto-Asocio (UEA) [Universal Esperanto Association], Student Member
2024–present: Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo (TEJO) [World Esperanto Youth Organization], Member
Extracurricular Experience
Co-host and Producer, “Ders Çıkışı Dilbilim” [Linguistics After Class] Podcast,
Hacettepe University Linguistics Community.
Editor-in-Chief, Hacettepe University Linguistics Community Website:
https://hulinguistics.com/
Volunteer, Rode Kruis Nederland Ready2Help, Abcoude, Utrecht, Netherlands.
3 February 2024.
Kaya, A. Ç. “Esperanto kaj plurlingva estonteco” [Esperanto and a Multilingual Future].
Book review, Turka Stelo, no. 63, March 2021.
Member, World Cube Association, 2018–present.
Last updated: 26 July 2026