Research (some recent papers)

• Discourse

Zeyrek, D., Demirşahin, I., Sevdik-Çallı, A., Balaban, H. Ö., Yalçınkaya, İ., Turan, Ü. D. (2010). The Annotation Scheme of the Turkish Discourse Bank and an Evaluation of Incosistent Annotations. ACL 2010. LAW IV. Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Proceedings of the Workshop. 15-16 July 2010, Uppsala, Sweden. 202-206. pdf

Aktaş, D., Bozşahin, C., Zeyrek, D. (2010). Discourse Relation Configurations in Turkish and an Annotation Environment. (2010). ACL 2010. LAW IV. Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Proceedings of the Workshop. 15-16 July 2010, Uppsala, Sweden. 202-206. pdf

Zeyrek, D., Turan, Ü. D., Bozşahin, C., Çakıcı, R., Sevdik-Çallı, A., Demirşahin, Aktaş, B., Yalçınkaya, İ., Ögel, H. (2009). Annotating Subordinators in the Turkish Discourse Bank.  ACL-IJCNLP, Linguistic LAW LAW III Annotation Workshop III. Singapore, August 6-7, 2009. 44-48. pdf

Zeyrek, D. Türkçe İşaretleme Çalışması [Turkish Corpus Annotation] (2009). 23. Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri, 14-15 Mayıs 2009. Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Gazi Mağusa. 78-88. pdf

Zeyrek, D., Demirşahin, I., Sevdik-Çallı, A.B. (2008). ODTÜ Metin Düzeyinde İşaretlenmiş Derlem Projesi Tanıtımı [An Introduction to Turkish Discourse Bank Project] . Mersin Üniversitesi. Sempozyumu Bildirileri, 19-22 Kasım 2008. 544-553. pdf

Zeyrek, D., Webber, B. (2008). A Discourse Resource for Turkish: Annotating Discourse Connectives in the METU Corpus. The 6th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, (IJNLP)  January 11-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India. 65-71. pdf

Zeyrek, D., Turan, Ü.D., Bozşahin, C. (2009). The Role of Annotation in Understanding Discourse. Essays on Turkish Linguistics. Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Antalya, August 6-8, 2008. Wiesbadan: Harrassowitz Verlag. 303-313. pdf

Zeyrek, D., Turan, Ü. D., Demirşahin, (2008). Structural and presuppositional connectives in Turkish. Constraints in Discourse 3, Editor(s) Benz, A., Kühnlein, P., Stede, M. July 30th-August 1^st. University of Potsdam., Germany. 131-137.

Say, B., Zeyrek, D., Oflazer, K., Özge, U. (2004)  Development of a corpus and a treebank for present day written Turkish.  İmer, K., Doğan, G. (Eds.), Current Research in Turkish Linguistics. ICTL 2002. Cyprus: Eastern Mediarennean University.  183-192. pdf

Zeyrek, D. (2003). "Temporal organization and discourse structure."  In Özsoy, A. S., Akar, D., Nakipoglu-Demiralp, M., Erguvanlı-Taylan E. E., Aksu-Koç, A. (Eds). Studies in Turkish Linguistics:Proceedings of the 10th International conference in Turkish Linguistics. Istanbul: Boğaziçi University Press. 419-428. 

• Intransitive verbs, unaccusativity
  

Acartürk, C. & Zeyrek, D. (2010). Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction in Turkish: A Connectionist Approach. The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Language Resources. Beijing, China, 21-22 August 2010. pp. 111-119. pdf

Zeyrek, D. & Acartürk, C. (2006). The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Turkish: An experimental investigation. S: Yağcıoğlu, A. Cem Değer (Eds). Advances in Turkish Linguistics. Proceedings of the 12^th International Conerene on Turkish Linguistics. 11-13 August, 2004. İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Üniversity. 325-340.

Zeyrek, D. (2006). Anticausatives in Turkish. Paper presented at the13^th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Uppsala: Sweden. August 16-20, 2006.

Zeyrek, D. (2004). The role of lexical semantics in unaccusative-unergative distinction in Turkish. In Comrie, B. Soloveyv, V., Suihkonen, P (Eds), International Symposium on the Typology of Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations in Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia LENCA-2). pp 134-135. Kazan State University, Tatarstan Republic, Russia, May 11-14, 2004.

• Pragmatics & Second Language Acquisition
  

Toplu, B. & Zeyrek, D. (2010) Linguistic Expression and non-linguistic representation of motion events: An experimental study. 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. 6-8th September 2010, York, UK. p. 109.

Özge, D., Marinis, T., Zeyrek, D. (2010) A Conflict Between Filler-Gap Accounts and Incremental Processing: Evidence from Production and Parsing of Relative Clauses in a Head-Final Language. 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. 6-8th September, 2010, York, UK. p. 88.

Özge, D., Marinis, Th., Zeyrek, D. (2010) Production of Relative Clauses in Monolingual Turkish Children. A Supplement to the Proc. of the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development. pdf

Özge, D., Marinis, T., Zeyrek, D. (2009) Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children. In S. Ay, Ö. Aydın, İ. Ergenç, S. Gökmen, S. İşsever, and D. Peçenek (Eds). Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Antalya, August 6-8, 2008. Wiesbadan: Harrassowitz Verlag. 341-351. pdf

Otçu, B. & Zeyrek, D. (2008) Development of requests: A study on Turkish Learners of English” In Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (Eds) Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 265-298.

Akgün, M., Çağıltay, K. & Zeyrek, D. (2010) Journal of Pragmatics). The effect of apologetic error messages and mood stated on computer users’ self-appraisal of performance. Vol. 42, No: 9, 2349-2448. 

Zeyrek, D. (2006). Dil Edinimi. Dilbilim Temel Sorunlar Tartışmalar. (haz.) A. Kocaman. Ankara: Dil Derneği. pp. 137-151. pdf

Özhan, D., Zeyrek, D. (2006).  Overpassivization errors in the Interlanguage of Turkish learners of English.  Poster presentation at EuroSLA 2006, Antalya/Turkey: September 13-16, 2006.

• Phonetics & phonology
  

Hatipoğlu, Ç., Zeyrek, D. (2009). Trakya Türkçesinde titrek R. [Trills Spoken in the Thrace Region of Turkey] 22. XXI. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri, 8-9 Mayıs 2008, 100. Yıl Üniversitesi, Van, 58-69.

Zeyrek, D, Hatipoğlu, Ç.,  Atalay, N. B. (2008). Türkçe /r/’nin akustik incelenmesi: Bölge ve Cinsiyet Farklılıkları [An Acoustic Analysis of Turkish /r/: Regional and Gender Differences]. 21. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, 10-11 Mayıs 2007, Mersin University, Turkey, 10-18. 

I welcome research proposals from graduate students in all the topics above. You can review the theses I (co)supervised here and contact me to discuss whether we can work together on a topic.

Recently Completed Project

Turkish Discourse Bank (TDB), funded by TUBITAK, 2007-2010 (Principal Investigator: Deniz Zeyrek). You can view the research team's publications under Discourse, above. Please visit this page for more information and contact us if you want to obtain a copy of the annotated corpus.