Presentations

"Darleen and Darnisha: Race, Gender and Phonological Patterns in American Given Names." American Name Society Annual Conference, January 2023.

“’They Speak a Different Language’: Perception and Acquisition of Internal Dialect Variation in Cypriot Turkish by Turkish Student Migrants.” Multidisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Multilingualism, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 2022.

“Gidecen/min/misin? Where Turkish Cypriots Think Dialect Variation is Going.” Heritage Languages and Variation, Limassol, Cyprus, September 2022.

"The Cocktail Test: Perception of Speech in Noise as a Measure of Proficiency." Keynote Address, GLOBELT 2022, 8th International Conference on the Teaching and Learning of English as an Additional Language, Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus, April 2022.

“Remembering empire: The reception of Hittite in modern Turkey.” 12^th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, Washington, DC, November 2019.

“The development of sibling languages by child speakers.” Cyprus Acquisition Team. University of Cyprus, September 2019.

“Non-concatenative morphology, multilingualism and language contact: The case of Cypriot Maronite Arabic and Maltese.” Cyprus Acquisition Team. University of Cyprus, September 2018.

“Perception of whistled Turkish by Turkish speakers.” 19^th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Astana, Kazakhstan, August 2018.

“Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination.” Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group. University of Cambridge, November 2017.

“A quantitative investigation of noun pluralization in Cypriot Maronite Arabic and Maltese.” Workshop on Arabic & Contact-Induced Change, 23^rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. University of Texas at San Antonio, August 2017.

“Neuter to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.” 23^rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. University of Texas at San Antonio, August 2017.

“Mosque or ‘Muslim church’?: Reterritorialization in the linguistic landscape of a Bulgarian Ottoman heritage monument.” 8^th Conference on Linguistic Landscape. Liverpool, UK, April 2016.

“Probability matching and Macedonian gender morphology: The case of Turkish loanword adaptation.” 11^th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages. Potsdam, Germany, December 2015.

“English academia outside Anglophonia: The linguistic landscape of an international English-medium university.” 21^st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes. Istanbul, Turkey, October 2015.

“Acquiring English in American kidlit: Portrayals of multilingualism in western migration.” International Conference on Bilingualism 2015. Valletta, Malta, March 2015.

“The significance of vowel insertion in Ottoman Turkish.” 17^th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Rouen, September 2014.

“Multilingualism in American pioneer kidfic.” Competing Voices: Multilingualism and Multivocality in Literature and Society. Plovdiv, January 2014.

“Language contact in Bulgaria.” Fulbright Commission 100 Days in Bulgaria. Sofia, December 2013.

“Presenting a diverse campus community: The linguistic landscape of an international English-medium university.” Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity. Cyprus, July 2013.

“Fear of flapping: Probabilistic rule productivity and the OCP.” Poster, 10^th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP10), Istanbul, January 2013.

“Lessening language barriers, strengthening borders: Changes in English-language education in the Gulf states.” Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity. Cyprus, July 2012.

“Identity avoidance without phonology: Possession and relativization in Semitic.” Alternate presenter, Workshop on Identity in Grammar, Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW). Vienna, April 2011.

“Close communication: The effect of interlocutor intimacy on phonological structure.” Poster, 8^th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP8), Marrakesh, January 2011.

“On the psychological reality of Turkish Sezer stress.” Poster presented at the 12^th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 8-10 July, 2010.

“Cross-linguistic variation in language similarity classification.” Poster, 2^nd Acoustical Society of America Special Workshop on Speech: Cross-Language Speech Perception and Variations in Linguistic Experience. Portland, Oregon, 22-23 May, 2009.

“Repeating speech sounds: When it’s good, when it’s bad, and why.” Middle East Technical University, November 2008.

“Heading toward harmony: Vowel cooccurrence in the Croatian lexicon.” Symposium on Phonologization, University of Chicago, April 25-26, 2008.

“Boudledidge: A contribution to language game typology.” Poster, 15^th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, May 24-26, 2007.

“Gradient gender assignment in Spanish: An OT-GLA account.” Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 18-20, 2007.

“Adults assigning gender: Loanwords and L2 acquisition.” Amsterdam Gender Colloquium: An International Workshop on Grammatical Gender, Amsterdam, Sept. 15-16, 2006.

“Phonetic repairs of phoneme repetition.” Lund University Linguistics Department. April 20, 2006.

“OT treatments of the OCP.” Stockholm University Fonologikollokviet. March 23, 2006.

“Repairing Repetition Phonetically.” Stockholm University Avseminarium. March 2, 2006.

“OCP-driven variation in American English schwa production.” Poster, Third Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP3), Budapest, Jan. 17-19, 2006.

“Underneath the OCP: Phonetic variation in American English.” University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Nov. 11, 2005.

“Underneath the OCP: Phonetic variation in American English.” Purdue Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars. Oct. 5, 2005.

“Investigating sub-phonemic contrast with magnetoencephalography (MEG).” Purdue Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Lunch Seminar. Sept. 26, 2005.

With Valentine Hacquard. “Phonological underspecification: Evidence from neural responses.” Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW). Geneva, April 2005.

With Valentine Hacquard. “Conditioned allophony in speech perception: An MEG study.” Second Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP2), Tromso, Jan. 20-22, 2005.

“Arabic pluralization in second-language acquisition.” Poster, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALANA). University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dec. 18-20, 2004.

With Valentine Hacquard. “MEG Evidence for Phonological Underspecification.” Poster, Biomag 2004, Boston, Aug. 12-18.

With Valentine Hacquard. “Warping of the perceptual space due to vowel inventory size and organization.” 12^th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, May 20-22, 2004.

“Vowel adaptation in Zazaki Kurdish.” Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW). Thessaloniki, April 2004.

With Valentine Hacquard. “Inventory and allophony in vowel perception: An MEG study.” Kanazawa Institute of Technology 3rd International Symposium on Brain and Language: Neurocognitive linguistics research and brain science by MEG, fMRI and related technology. Tokyo, December 11-12, 2003.

“The meaning of names in Hadramaut.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting. Anchorage, November 5-7, 2003.

With Valentine Hacquard. “MEG and Phonological Perception.” Workshop on the Connection between Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics. Utrecht University, June 2003.

“The Arabic dialect of Hadramaut, Yemen.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., November 24-25, 2002.

With Valentine Hacquard. “Correlating Consonant Confusability and Brain Responses: An MEG Study.” Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS) Annual Meeting. Berkeley, CA, February 14-17, 2003.

“Final position, prominence, and licensing of contrast.” 2^nd Annual Conference on Contrast and Complexity in Phonology. Toronto, May 3-5, 2002.

“Arabic card jargon: A sociolinguistic study in the transmission of popular culture.” 4^th Annual Regional Middle East Studies Conference. Santa Barbara, CA, March 23, 2002.

“The Arabic Dialect of Hadramaut, Yemen.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Languages. Houston, TX, March 22-23, 2002.

“Pharyngealization Effects in Maltese Arabic.” 16th Arabic Linguistics Society Symposium. Cambridge, UK, March 1-2, 2002.