Şafak, Duygu F., Dr.

Research Interests

• Syntactic and Morphological Processing
• Multilingualism

Projects

• DFG Project: “Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change” (PI: Prof. Dr. Holger Hopp, 2022 – present)
• TÜBİTAK–BMBF Project: “Experimental Studies on German-Turkish Multilingualism” (PIs: Prof. Dr. Bilal Kırkıcı and Prof. Dr. Harald Clahsen, 2014 – 2017)

Teaching

• Grammatical Processing in Second Language Learners
• Introduction to Linguistics I
• Introduction to Linguistics II
• Language Processing and Change
• Morphology
• Second Language Acquisition

• Şafak, D. F., & Hopp, H. (submitted). Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production.
• Şafak, D. F., & Hopp, H. (2023). Cross-linguistic differences in predicting L2 sentence structure: The use of categorical and gradient verb constraints. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(5), 1234–1260. DOI: 10.1017/S0272263123000256
• Şafak, D. F. (2022). How do L2 learners use verbs in sentence processing? Integration and prediction in L2 sentence comprehension. DOI: 10.24355/dbbs.084-202209051029-0
• Şafak, D. F., & Hopp, H. (2022). Verb bias and semantic persistence effects in L2 ambiguity resolution. Second Language Research, 38(4), 705-736. DOI: 10.1177/0267658321997904
• Gračanin Yüksek, M., Lago, S., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., & Kırkıcı, B. (2020). The interpretation of syntactically unconstrained anaphors in Turkish heritage speakers. Second Language Research, 36(4), 475 - 501. DOI: 10.1177/0267658319841403
• Jacob, G., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., & Kırkıcı, B. (2019). Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers: A masked priming study on Turkish. Second Language Research, 35(2), 173-194. DOI: 10.1177/0267658318764535
• Lago, S., Gračanin Yüksek, M., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., Kırkıcı, B., & Felser, C. (2019). Straight from the horse’s mouth: agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 9(3), 398-426. DOI: 10.1075/lab.17019.lag
• Gračanin Yüksek, M., Lago, S., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., & Kırkıcı, B. (2017). The interaction of contextual and syntactic information in the processing of Turkish anaphors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46(6), 1397-1425. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-017-9502-2

• Şafak, D. F. (2013). Orthography-induced interferences in the written Turkish of Turkish- German bilingual children. Book of Proceedings 13th International Language, Literature and Stylistics Symposium: Simple Style (pp. 1087–1096), Kars: Kafkas Üniversitesi.