University of Würzburg

Second Language AcquisitionSecond Language Phonology
English Phonetics and Phonology
English Morphology and Word Formation
Syntax
Linguistic typology
Language and ethnicity

Presentations

A cross-linguistic perspective on stress-meter alignment in music: Evidence from Turkish children's songs. Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, University of Cologne (with Barış Kabak). 12.-14.06.2017

What modulates L3 perception (and production) of English phonological contrasts? The case of Turkish-German bilinguals. Poster presented at Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza Poznan (with Barış Kabak). 06.-07.05.2017

What can accent-meter alignment in music say about prosodic typology? Talk given at Seminar in General Metrics, Meertens Instituut Amsterdam (with with Barış Kabak). 25.01.2016

L3 phonology - cross-language, psychoacoustic, and extralinguistic factors. Paper presented at 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, München (with Barış Kabak). 13.-14.10.2016

Phonological transfer in the acquisition of English by bilingual learners. Paper presented at FJUEL 6.0, Würzburg. 16.09.2016

Multilingual advantage and crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of an L3 phonology by young learners of English. Paper presented at EuroSLA, Jyväskylä, Finland (with Barış Kabak). 24.-27.08.2016

Transfer or multilingual advantage? Perception and production of an L3 phonology by Turkish-German bilingual learners. Paper presented at NEL-1, Würzburg, Deutschland. 01.07.2016

Beyond transfer? The acquisition of an additional phonological system by young monolingual learners. Paper presented at New Sounds, Aarhus, Denmark (with Barış Kabak). 10.-12.06.2016

Research projects

PhD project: Beyond transfer? The acquisition of an L3 phonology by Turkish-German bilinguals. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barış Kabak)

Word stress in music: Crosslinguistic insights (with Barış Kabak)

Phonology/Phonetics, Second and Third Language Acquisition, Language Contact, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Typology, Musical Typology, Rhythm in Music and Language

2003 Abitur

2015 M.A. in English Literature, English Linguistics, Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft

since October 2015 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Institute of English Linguistics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg