Office: G110

Office Hours:

Wednesdays, 12:15-14:00

Current courses:

WS 2009-2010 (Fall 2009):

1) Structure and History of English-I

2) Advanced Topics in Phonology

3) Dialects of English

4) Research Methods in SLA

Barış Kabak
B.A. (Bogazici), M.A. (Delaware), Ph.D. (Delaware)

Department of Linguistics
University of Konstanz

Germany

I am currently substituting the professorship of English and General Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Frans Plank) at the Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, where I have been working as an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) since 2005. In the 2008-2009 academic year, I substituted the professorship of Psycho-/Neurolinguistics and General Linguistics (Prof. Carsten Eulitz) at Konstanz. Before taking up my current post, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in Project A20: Morphological Typology (F. Plank) within the Special Research Unit 471 ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Funded projects

· Nature and Dynamics of Prosodic Exceptions: Experimental and Cross-linguistic insights (through Young Scholar Fund im Rahmen der Exzellenzinitative,

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), 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)

Research interests

· Phonology: interfaces with phonetics and morphosyntax, exceptions and their representation, prosodic phonology, second language phonology, phonological processing;

· Psycholinguistics: the role of language-specific phonological processes and constraints on speech perception and production, extraction of morpho-phonological regularities and sub-regularities and their role in speech segmentation;

· Morphology: agglutination, fusion, cliticization, morphological typology, morphological processing;

· Language Acquisition: Second language acquisition, Psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism, English as a second/ foreign language;

· Other: Turkish Linguistics, specifically Turkish phonology and morphology; Korean phonology-morphology, Turkic Languages, language contact.

Recent workshops

· Discovering and Representing Phonological Patterns 10-12 April 2008, University of Konstanz.

· Phonology Workshop: Phonological Domains, Universals and Deviations (29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Siegen).

Some recent talks

· ‘Forms of iteration at the morphology-syntax divide: Evidence from Greek and Turkish’. Paper presented at the Universals and Typology in Word-Formation Conference. 16 – 18 August 2009. P. J. Šafarik University in Košice, Slovakia and the Slovak Association for the Study of English (with Aslı Göksel & Anthi Revithiadou).

· ‘Bilinguals’ production & perception of Swiss-German and Italian vowels’. Paper presented at the 19^th 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).

Books and Papers

1. Grijzenhout, J. & B. Kabak (Eds.) (2009). Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations. Interface Explorations 16. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2. Kabak, B. (in prep). The Phonology of Turkish. Oxford University Press. To appear in 2011.

3. Kabak, B., K. Maniwa, & N. Kazanina (In print). Listeners use vowel harmony and word-final stress to spot nonsense words: A study of Turkish and French. Laboratory Phonology 1:1.

4. Kabak, B. & A. Revithiadou (2009) From edgemost to lexical stress: Diachronic paths, typology and representation. The Linguistic Review 26 (1), 1-36.

5. Altmann H., and B. Kabak (To appear). Second language phonology. In: Bert Botma, Nancy Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (Eds.), The Continuum Companion to Phonology. Continuum.

6. Kabak, B. (To appear). Turkish vowel harmony. In: Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Beth Hume & Keren Rice (Eds.). The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell.

7. Kabak, B. & I. Vogel. (in press-a). Exceptions to stress and harmony: cophonologies or prespecification? To appear in: Simon, H. & H. Wiese (Eds.) Expecting the unexpected: exceptions in grammar. Mouton de Gruyter. [Click here to download the pre-publication version].

8. Kabak, Barış & Irene Vogel (in press-b). Feature spreading, lexical specification, and truncation. In: Simon, H. & H. Wiese (Hrsg.) Expecting the unexpected: exceptions in grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

9. Grijzenhout, J. and B. Kabak (2009). Phonological domains: an appraisal. In: J. Grijzenhout & B. Kabak (Eds.) Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

10. Kabak, B. & A. Revithiadou. (2009). An interface approach to prosodic word recursivity. In: J. Grijzenhout & B. Kabak (Eds.) Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

11. Kabak, B. (2007). Vowel assimilation across words in Turkish. Turkic Languages 11: 181-195.

12. 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.

13. Kabak, B. & K. Maniwa. (2007). L2 perception of English fricatives in clear and conversational speech: the role of phonetic similarity and L1 interference. The Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007: 781-784. [Click here to download].

14. Kabak, B. (2007). Hiatus resolution in Turkish: an underspecification account. Lingua 117:1378-1411.

15. 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.

16. 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]

17. Kabak, B. (2007). Turkish suspended affixation. Linguistics 45 (2): 311-347.

18. 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]

19. Kabak, B. (2006). An obstacle to the morphologization of postpositions. Studies in Language 30: 33-68.

20. Kabak, B. & I. Vogel. (2005). Irregular stress in Turkish. Ms. University of Konstanz/ University of Delaware. [Click here to download]

21. 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]

22. Altmann, H. & B. Kabak (2005). American English speakers’ verb placement errors in German.

23. 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]

24. 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]

25. 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]

26. 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]

27. Kabak, B. & I. Vogel. (2001).The Phonological Word and Stress Assignment in Turkish. Phonology 18: 315-360. [Click here to download]

28. Kabak, B. (2001). Vowel disharmony and vowel sub-systems in Turkish. Ms. University of Delaware.

Work ın preparation

· Kabak, B. and S. Weber. (in prep). Patterns and subregularities in Turkish vowel harmony: A corpus study. Paper based on the handout presented at 16^th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 24 May 2008.

· Göksel, A., B. Kabak, & A. Revithiadou. Forms of iteration at the morphology-syntax divide. Manuscript of the paper read at the Universals and Typology in Word-Formation Conference. 16 – 18 August 2009. P. J. Šafarik University in Košice, Slovakia and the Slovak Association for the Study of English, and LAGB 2010, September 2009, Edinburgh, UK.

· Italian-Swiss German bilinguals’ perception and production of vowel categories (with Annina Giger-Niedermann).

· Epenthetic vowels: A cross-linguistic production study (with Frank Zimmerer).

Other work

· Average Formant Values for Turkish vowels based on 2 speakers (Kazumi Maniwa and Baris Kabak)

Some older talks and handouts

· Vowel Harmony has direction and context: A corpus study. Paper presented at the 16^th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, 23-26.05.2008 (with Eva Kasselkus, Kazumi Maniwa, and Silke Weber). Click here to download the handout.

· L2 perception of English fricatives in clear and conversational speech: the role of phonetic similarity and L1 interference. The Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007: 781-784 (with Kazumi Maniwa).

· An interface account of prosodic recursivity. Paper presented at the 15^th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, 24-26.05.2007 (with Anthi Revithiadou). Click here to download the handout.

· The role of vowel harmony and stress in speech segmentation. SFB Colloquium, University of Konstanz, 10.05.2007 (with Nina Kazanina and Kazumi Maniwa).

· Tenacity of L1 phonological knowledge: Evidence from L2 Perception. Invited talk presented at Boğazi_i University, Linguistics Program, Istanbul, Turkey (with Heidi Altmann). 03 April 2007.

· Hiatus resolution in Turkish. Invited talk presented at Boğaziçi University, Linguistics Program, Istanbul, Turkey. 27 March 2007.

· L2 Perception of English Fricatives in Clear and Conversational Speech: The Role of Phonetic Similarity and L1 Interference. Paper presented at the European Second Language Acquisition Conference 2007, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 11-14.09.2007 (with Kazumi Maniwa).

· Russian and German Listeners’ Discrimination of English Interdentals and Sibilants. Poster presented at the European Second Language Acquisition Conference 2007, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 11-14.09.2007 (with Olga Kounakova).

· Phonology and word class distinctions. Paper to be presented at the 7^th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Paris, France, 25-28.09.2007 (with Frans Plank).

· L2 Perception of English Fricatives in Clear and Conversational Speech. Poster to be presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007, Saarbr_cken, Germany, 06-10.08.2007 (with Kazumi Maniwa).

· Patterns and subregularities in vowel (dis)harmony. Invited talk presented at the Workshop: Vowel Harmony in the Languages of the Mediterranean, Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 4). 18-21 January 2007. Rhodes Aquarium, Rhodes, Greece.