Prof. Dr. Barış Kabak (BA, Bogazici; MA & Ph.D., Delaware,
USA)
Professor of English Linguistics
University of Würzburg, Germany
Email: baris.kabak.AT.uni-wuerzburg.de
About me
I
am currently a professor of English Linguistics in the Institute of Modern
Languages at the University of Würzburg. Before coming to Würzburg,
I worked as an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor)
of English and General Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz (2005-2011). In Summer 2010, I became a
Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, which allowed me to have a research stay at the University of Oxford. During my assistant professorship, I
substituted for the professorship of English Linguistics (2009-2010) and the professorship
of Psycho-/ Neurolinguistics (2008-2009) at Konstanz.
Before
I got on the professorial track, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow
within the Special Research Unit 471 ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prior to that, I taught various
linguistics courses at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, at the University of Delaware in the United States of America, where I
was a graduate student (1998-2003), and a Competitive
Fellow. I did my undergraduate studies in English Language Teaching and Linguistics
at Bogazici (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey, and at the State University of New York at
Binghamton,
New York, USA. I am a native of Istanbul.
Research Projects
Nature and Dynamics of Prosodic Exceptions: Experimental and
Cross-linguistic insights (through the Young Scholar
Fund in the framework of the Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz,
2010-2011). Ph.D. Student: Yulia Lavitskaya
Phonological Patterns and Subregularities
in the Lexicon (within SFB 471 ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’ funded
by the German Research Foundation
(DFG), University of Konstanz, 2006-2008).
Acoustic, phonetic and phonological factors in non-native sound
perception
(AFF, University of Konstanz, Funding Period: 2008-2009)
L2 Perception of German and English Sound Strings (AFF, University of Konstanz; Funding
Period: 2007).
L2 Acquisition of English Fricatives and Voicing (AFF, University of Konstanz; Funding
period 2006)
Doctoral students:
Elif Bamyaci (Neurolinguistics, Bilingualism, Morphosyntactic
Processing)
Tobias Galts
(Phonology, Prosody, L2, Chinese)
Yulia Lavitskaya
(Laboratory Phonology, Prosody, Russian)
Georgij Nowossjellow (Morphosyntax, Korean)
Research Interests
Phonology and Phonetics: Speech perception, Phonology-Phonetics interface, Phonology-Morphosyntax interface, exceptions and their
representation, prosody, second language phonetics and phonology, phonological
processing;
Psycholinguistics: Mental representation of speech sounds and sound strings, speech
segmentation;
Morphology: agglutination, fusion, cliticization,
morphological typology, morphological processing;
Language Acquisition: second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic
aspects of bilingualism, bilingual morphosyntax,
bilingual phonology, cognitive consequences of bilingualism, English as a
second/ foreign language;
English Linguistics: English sound structure, English word formation, American
English, linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of L2 English,
Other: Turkish Linguistics, specifically Turkish phonology and
morphology; Korean phonology-morphology, Turkic
Languages, language contact.
Recently organized workshops
International
Workshop on Suprasegmentals in Acquisition and
Processing
31 May-01 June 2011, University of Konstanz (with Bettina Braun).
Phonology Workshop: Phonological Domains, Universals and
Deviations
(29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS),
Siegen, with Janet Grijzenhout).
Discovering and Representing
Phonological Patterns 10-12 April 2008, University of Konstanz
Some recent talks and posters
‘Pronouns as indicators of modality shift:
The ‘perplexive’ construction in Turkish’. Talk
presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 8-11 September 2011. Universidad de la
Rioja, Logroño, Spain (with Asli
Göksel).
‘Lexical encoding of L2 tonal contrasts: The role of L1 stress
parameters’.
Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2011. 21-22 June 2011. Tarrogona,
Spain (with Tobias Galts and Bettina Braun).
‘Tonal
variation in Taiwan Mandarin’. Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2011. 21-22 June 2011. Tarrogona,
Spain (with Wen-Hsuan Chiao
and Tobias Galts).
‘Which
bilinguals are faster in conflict processing: The role of linguistic (dis)similarity’.
Talk presented at the 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. 13-16 April 2011. Donastia,
San Sebastian, Spain (with Bettina Braun and Sonja Froitzheim).
L1 stress typology matters in the lexical
encoding of novel tonal contrasts. Poster presented at the 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. 13-16 April 2011. Donastia,
San Sebastian, Spain (with Bettina Braun and Tobias Galts).
‘Russian accentual system revisited:
Experimental and diachronic evidence’. Poster presented at the 8th Old World Conference in
Phonology.
19-22 January 2011. Marrakech, Morocco (with Yulia Lavitskaya).
‘Prosodic
basis of syntactic doubling’. Paper presented at the 8th Old World Conference in Phonology. 19-22 January 2011. Marrakech, Morocco
(with Asli Göksel and Anthi Revithiadou).
‘German L2
learners’ production of Italian consonantal length contrasts”. Paper presented at the 20th Conference of
the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 2010). 1-4 September 2010. University
of Modena und Reggio Emilia, Italy (with Tanja Reckziegel).
‘Epenthetic vowels: a mere gestural
mistiming?’. Poster presented at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. 8-10. July 2010. University of New
Mexico, USA (with Frank Zimmerer).
‘Plural agreement and animacy
in Turkish: An acceptability judgment study’. Paper presented at the 15th
International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL). 20-22 August 2010. Szeged, Hungary (with
Elif Bamyaci).
‘Bilinguals’
production & perception of Swiss-German and Italian vowels’. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the European
Second Language Association (EuroSLA 19). 2-5 September 2009, University College, Cork, Ireland (with Annina Giger).
‘Copying and iteration at the
morphology-syntax interface’. Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
(LAGB): Fiftieth Anniversary Golden Jubilee Meeting. 6-9
September 2009, Edinburgh, UK. (with Aslı Göksel & Anthi Revithiadou).
Publications
Göksel, A. & B. Kabak (submitted). Covert modality and perspective shift:
The perplexive construction. For: W. Abraham and E. Leiss (Eds.), Covert
patterns of modality. Cambridge Scholars.
Kabak. B. (submitted). Pervasive
syllables and the phonological unity of words. For: Renata
Szczepaniak and J. C. Reina (Eds.), Phonological typology of syllable and word
languages in theory and practice.
Göksel, A., B.
Kabak, & A. Revithiadou
(accepted).
Prosodically constrained non-local doubling. The Linguistic Review.
Domahs, U., Genç, S., Knaus,
J., Wiese, R. & B. Kabak (accepted). Processing (un)-predictable
word stress: ERP evidence from Turkish. Language
and Cognitive Processes.
Chiao, W-H., B. Kabak,
& B. Braun (2011). When more is less: non-native perception of level tone
contrasts. Proceedings of the
Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, pp. 43-45.
Kabak, B., T. Reckziegel, & B. Braun (2011). Timing of second
language geminates and singletons. Proceedings of the 17th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 994-997. Hong Kong, China,
Altmann H., & B. Kabak (2011). Second
language phonology. In: Nancy C. Kula, Bert Botma
& Kuniya Nasukawa
(Eds.), The Continuum Companion to
Phonology, 298-319. London /New York: Continuum.
Kabak, B. (2011). Turkish vowel harmony. In: Marc
van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen,
Beth Hume & Keren Rice (Eds.),The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell.
Kabak, B. & I. Vogel. (2011-a). Exceptions to stress and harmony: cophonologies
or prespecification? In: Horst J. Simon & Heike
Wiese (Eds.), Expecting the unexpected:
exceptions in grammar, 59-94. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kabak, B. & Irene Vogel (2011-b). Feature spreading,
lexical specification, and truncation. In: Horst J. Simon & Heike
Wiese (Eds.), Expecting the unexpected:
exceptions in grammar, 103-106. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kabak, B., K. Maniwa, & N. Kazanina
(2010).
Listeners use vowel harmony and word-final stress to spot nonsense words: A
study of Turkish and French. Laboratory
Phonology 1: 207-224.
Kabak, B. & A. Revithiadou (2009) From edgemost to lexical stress: Diachronic paths, typology and
representation. The
Linguistic Review 26 (1), 1-36.
Grijzenhout, J. & B. Kabak (Eds.) (2009). Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations. Interface Explorations 16. Berlin / New
York: Mouton de Gruyter.
[Review of the book by J. Meinschaefer in Language, Volume 87, Number 1, March
2011, pp. 201-203]
Grijzenhout, J. & B. Kabak (2009). Phonological domains: an appraisal. In:
J. Grijzenhout & B. Kabak
(Eds.) Phonological Domains: Universals
and Deviations. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kabak, B. & A. Revithiadou. (2009). An interface
approach to prosodic word recursivity. In: J. Grijzenhout & B. Kabak (Eds.)
Phonological Domains: Universals and
Deviations. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kabak, B. (2007). Vowel assimilation across words in
Turkish. Turkic Languages 11:
181-195.
Kabak, B. & K. Maniwa (2008). Acoustic, Phonetic and Phonological
Factors in non-native sound perception: The case of English fricatives in clear
and conversational speech. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Kabak, B. & K. Maniwa. (2007). L2 perception of English
fricatives in clear and conversational speech: the role of phonetic similarity
and L1 interference. In: J. Trouvain & W. Barry
(Eds.), The Proceedings of the 16th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 781-784. Saarbrücken.
[Click here to download].
Kabak, B. (2007). Hiatus resolution in Turkish: an underspecification
account. Lingua
117:1378-1411.
Kabak, B. & W. Idsardi (2007). Perceptual distortions in the adaptation
of English consonant clusters: Syllable structure or consonantal contact contraints? Language
and Speech 50 (1): 23-52.
Kabak, B. & F. Plank (2006). Where flexion encroaches on agglutination in Turkish and Korean.
In: Yong-Kun Ko et al. (eds.) Whither Morphology in the New Millennium?,
Morphology Monograph Series 1. pp. 123-152. Seoul,
Korea: Pagijong Press. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. (2007). Turkish suspended affixation. Linguistics 45 (2): 311-347.
Kabak, B. & R. Schiering (2006). The phonology and
morphology of function word contractions in German. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 9:
53-99. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. (2006). An obstacle to the morphologization
of postpositions. Studies in
Language 30: 33-68.
Kabak, B. & I. Vogel. (2005). Irregular stress in Turkish. Ms.
University of Konstanz/ University of Delaware. [Click here to download]
Altmann, H. & B. Kabak. (2005). The use of prosodic information
for disambiguation by German children: An experimental Investigation. Ms. University of Delaware/ University of Konstanz. [Click here to download]
Altmann, H. & B. Kabak (2005). American English
speakers’ verb placement errors in German.
Kabak, B. & R. Schiering (2004). A corpus study on the
distribution of ise
and its clitic form. Turkic Languages, 8 (2): 232-244. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. (2004). Acquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but
contrasts: The loss of Turkic and Korean primary long vowels. Linguistic Typology 8: 351-368. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. & W. Idsardi (2003). Syllabically conditioned perceptual
epenthesis. In: Nowak, P. et al. (eds.). Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 29. pp. 233-245. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. (2003). The
Perceptual Processing of Second Language Consonant Clusters. Ph.D.
Dissertation. University of Delaware. Available
through UMI’s Dissertation Publishing. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. & I. Vogel. (2001). The Phonological Word and Stress
Assignment in Turkish. Phonology 18: 315-360. [Click here to download]
Kabak, B. (2001). Vowel disharmony and vowel sub-systems
in Turkish. Ms. University of Delaware.
Work in preparation
Kabak, B. and S. Weber. Patterns and subregularities in Turkish vowel harmony: A corpus study.
Paper based on the handout presented at 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 24
May 2008.
Italian-Swiss
German bilinguals’ perception and production of vowel categories (with Annina Giger-Niedermann).
Epenthetic vowels: A cross-linguistic
production study (with Frank Zimmerer).
Kabak, B. (in prep). The Phonology of Turkish. Oxford University Press.
Patterns in Russian stress: Psycholinguisitc evidence (with Yulia
Lavitskaya)
Lexical encoding of L2 tones (with Tobias Galts and Bettina Braun)
Other work
Average Formant Values for Turkish
vowels based on 2 speakers (Kazumi Maniwa and Baris
Kabak)
Handouts
Vowel Harmony has direction and context: A corpus study. Paper presented at the 16th Manchester
Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, 23-26.05.2008 (with Eva Kasselkus, Kazumi Maniwa, and Silke Weber).
Epenthetic Vowels: A gestural mistiming? (with Frank Zimmerer).
Russian
accentual system (with Yulia Lavitskaya).
Courses
University of Würzburg, Germany
Fall 2011 (WS 2010/11):
Introduction to English Linguistics
American English: History, Variation and
Change
Advanced Topics in English Linguistics
Topics in English Morphology
Second Language Acquisition
University of Konstanz, Germany
Fall 2010 (WS 2010/11):
Structure and History of English-I
Interlanguage Pragmatics with Focus on English
Topics in Experimental Linguistics
Spring 2010 (SS 2010):
Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism
Second Language Acquisition
Structure and History of Turkish
Forschungskolloquium
Fall 2009 (WS 2009/10):
Structure and History of English-I
Advanced Topics in Phonology
Dialects of English
Research Methods in SLA
Spring 2009 (SS 2009)
Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (THU, 10-12:00)
Laboratory Phonology (TUE, 10-13:00)
Research Colloquium (WED, 12-14)
Fall 2008 (WS 2008-09)
Speech Perception (TUE, 10-13:00)
Structure and History of English-I (WED, 10-12)
BA-Kolloquium
(TUE, 14-16)
Research Methods in SLA (THU, 12-14)
Spring 2008 (SS 2008)
Phonetics III: Phonetics-Phonology
Interface
Structure and History of Korean
Phonologie-I
Fall 2007 (WS2007-08)
Research Methods in Second Language
Acquisition
(MA level course; also open for Lehramt)
Structure and History of English-I (with Frans
Plank; only open for BAST and BA-English)
Spring 2007 (SS2007)
Prosodic Phonology (Wed, 10-12; with Janet Grijzenhout)
Readings in (Prosodic) Morphology (Wed, 16-18; with Janet Grijzenhout)
Second Language Acquisition and
Bilingualism
(Thursdays, 10-12)
Fall 2006 (WS2006)
Structure and History of English, Part I
Morphology II: English Word Formation
Previous semesters
Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (SS 2006)
American English (SS 2006)
Structure and History of English-I
English as a Foreign Language-I: Principles
of Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Second Language Acquisition of Phonology
Topics in Altaic Phonology and Morphology
Structure and History of English-1:
Phonology Lectures
University of Delaware, USA
1998-2003
LING 407: Phonology I
LING 101: Introduction to Linguistics
LING102: Language, Mind and Society
Educational Background
2000-2003
Ph.D. in
Linguistics. University of Delaware, USA
1998-2000
M.A. in
Linguistics. University of Delaware, USA
1993-1998
B.A. in English
Language Teaching. Bogazici University, Istanbul
1996-1997
Exchange
Studies in Linguistics. State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
1993-1998
Certificate in Linguistics. Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
1988-1992
Lycee diploma in International Trade. Istanbul Anadolu
Ticaret Lisesi.
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information
Prof. Dr. Barış Kabak
Universitaet Wuerzburg
Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen
Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Am Hubland
D-97074 Wuerzburg
Tel.: +49 931 31 86519
Fax:
+49 931 31 85660
Email: baris.kabak@uni-wuerzburg.de