Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Ertaş, S., Koşkulu-Sancar, S., Ger, E., Liszkowski, U., & Küntay, A. C. (2023). Relation of infants’ and mothers’ pointing to infants’ vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports. Infancy, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12558. pdf
  • İleri, Ç. İ., Erşan, M., Kalaça, D., Coşkun, A., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (2023). Malleability of spatial skills: Bridging developmental psychology and toy design for joyful STEAM development. Frontiers in Psychology14, 1137003. pdf
  • Ateş, A. B., & Sodacı, H. (2022). Experience of early childhood care and education in Turkey. In H. Şen & H. Selin (Retired) (Eds.), Childhood in Turkey: Educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives (pp. 209-224). Springer International Publishing. pdf
  • Şen, H. H. & Küntay, C. A. (submitted). Truths, lies, and confessions: Collective interviewing of preschool dyads. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan D., & Küntay, A. C. (submitted). Children’s (recovery from) semantic prediction in high and low cloze probability contexts.
  • Demir-Lira, Ö. E., Kanero, J., Oranç, O., Koşkulu, S., Franko, I., Adıgüzel, Z., Uluşahin, O., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (submitted). Using gestures in L2 vocabulary teaching: Human or robot tutors?
  • Özkan, D. & Baydar, N. (under revision). Verbal skills as a gateway to the development of mathematics skills.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan D., & Küntay, A. C. (under revision). Verb-based prediction during language processing: The case of Dutch and Turkish.
  • Özkan, D. & Küntay, A. (in preparation). Linguistic and cognitive correlates of prediction based on morpho-syntactic cues: Longitudinal associations for Turkish-speaking children.
  • Özge D., Özkan, D., Uzundağ, B. A., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (in preparation). Turkish speaking children use verbal morphemes for thematic interpretation.
  • Dolscheid, S., Çelik, S., Erkan, H., Küntay, A.C. & Majid, A. (2020). Space-pitch associations differ in their susceptibility to language. Cognition. 196.
  • Özge, D., Küntay, A. & Snedeker, J. (2019). Why wait for the verb? Turkish speaking children use case markers for incremental language comprehension. Cognition. 183, 152-180.
  • Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2019). The Acquisition and Use of Relative Clauses in Turkish-Learning Children’s Conversational Interactions: A Crosslinguistic Approach. Journal of Child Language. Journal of Child Language. 1-20.
  • Oranç, C., Küntay A. C. (2019). Learning from the real and the virtual worlds: Educational use of augmented reality in early childhood. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 21, 104-111. 
  • Verhagen, J., V.D. Berghe R., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Küntay, A.C. & Leseman, P. (2019). Children’s reliance on the non-verbal cues of a robot versus a human. Plos One. 1-20.
  • Özkan, D., Uzundag, B. A., Küntay, A. C. (2019). Learning language is learning typology: Acquisition of argument structure and relative clauses in typologically diverse languages. In J. von Koss Torkildsen and J. Horst (Eds.), International Handbook of Language Development. London: Routledge
  • Özkan, D., Uzundağ, B. & Küntay, A.C. (2019). Learning argument structure. International Handbook of Language Acquisition. Vol. 15.
  • Shatz, I., Weatherhead, D., Friedman, O., White, S. K., Sarvasy, S. H., Caglar-Ryeng, Ö., Eklund, K., Nergård-Nilssen, T., Conwell, E., Uzundag, B., Küntay, A.C., Caines, A., Altmann-Richer, E., Buttery, P., Burke Hadley, E., Dickinson, D. K., Lüke, C., L (2019). Child Language. Journal of Child Language.Vol. 46(6), b1-b2.
  • Şen, H. H. & Küntay, C. A. (2018). Nonverbal markers of lying during children’s collective interviewing with friends. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0287-2
  • Moran, S., Blasi, E.D., Schikowski, R., Küntay, A.C., Pfeiler, B., Allen, S. & Stoll, S. (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: Frequent frames. Cognition, 175: 131–140.
  • Ger, E., Altınok, N., Liszkowski, U. & Küntay, A.C. (2018). Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness, Infancy. 1-22, doi: 10.1111/infa.12239
  • Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Children’s referential communication skills: The role of cognitive abilities and adult models of speech. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 73-95.
  • Ateş, B.Ş. & Küntay, A., (2018). Socio-pragmatic skills underlying language development: Boundaries between typical and atypical development. In A. Bar-On & D. Ravid (Eds.), Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Ateş, B. Ş., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Referential interactions of Turkish-learning children with their caregivers about non-absent objects: integration of non-verbal devices and prior discourse. Journal of Child Language, 45, 148-173.
  • Belpaeme, T., Vogt, P., Van den Berghe, R., Bergmann, K., Göksun, T., De Haas, M., Kanero, J., Kennedy, J., Küntay A.C., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Papadopoulos, F., Schodde, T., Verhagen, J., Wallbridge, C.D, Willemsen, B., De Wit, J., Geçkin, V. & Hoffmann, L. (2018). Guidelines for Designing Social Robots as Second Language Tutors. International Journal of Social Robotics. doi.org/10.1007/s12369-018-0467-6
  • Kanero, J., Geçkin V., Oranç, C., Mamus, E., Küntay, A. C., & Göksun, T. (2018). Social robots for early language learning. Child Development Perspectives.
  • Belpaeme, T., Vogt, P., van den Berghe, R., Bergmann, K. Göksun, T., de Haas, M., Kanero, J., Kennedy, J., Küntay, A. C., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Papadopoulos, F., Schodde, T., Verhagen, J., Wallbridge, C. D., Willemsen, B., de Wit, J., Geçkin, V., Hoffmann, L., Kopp, S., Krahmer, E. Mamus, E., Montanier, J. M., Oranç, C., & Pandey, A. K. (2018). Guidelines for designing social robots as second language tutors. International Journal of Social Robotics, 10, 325-341.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Taşçı, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2018). Functions of Turkish Evidentials in Early Child-Caregiver Interactions: A Growth Curve Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Journal of Child Language, doi:10.1017/ S0305000911000183.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan, D., & Küntay, A. (2017). Semantic prediction in monolingual and bilingual children. In: E. Blom, L. Cornips, & J. Schaeffer (Eds.) [SiBiL 52]. Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism. In honor of Aafke Hulk. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Tasci, S. S., & Küntay, A. C. (2017). Nonfactual meanings in early use of evidentials in Turkish child-caregiver interactions. In F. N. Ketrez, A. Küntay, A. Özyürek, & Ş. Özçalışkan (Eds.), Social environment and cognition in language development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç. Trends in Language Acquisition Research Series. John Benjamins Publications.
  • Verhagen, J., Grassmann, S. & Küntay, A.C. (2017). Monolingual and bilingual children’s resolution of referential conflicts: Effects of bilingualism and relative language proficiency. Cognitive Development. 41: 10-18.
  • Veryeri I. A. & Küntay, A.C. (2017). Early education in literacy in Turkey in comparison to the Balkan countries. In N. Kucirkova, C. Snow, V. Grover, C. Mcbridge (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education. Taylor and Francis.
  • Köksal S. A. & Küntay, A.C. (2017). Oyun ve dil gelişimi (Play and language development). In Dost-Gözkan, A., Kafescioğlu, N., & Tahiroğlu, D. (eds.) Gelişim psikolojisi ve terapi perspektifinden oyun. İstanbul: Özyeğin University Press.
  • Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2016). İkidillilik gelişen zihni farklı şekillendirir mi? [Does bilingualism shape the developing brain differently?] In Ç. Aydın, T. Göksun, A. Küntay, & D. Tahiroğlu (Eds.), Aklın Çocuk Hali – Zihin Gelişimi Araştırmaları (pp. 41-67). İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları.
  • Ateş, B,Ş. & Küntay, A.C. (2016). Sosyal-edimsel dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişimi: Bebeklikte tipik ve atipik sosyal-bilişsel süreçler (Development of social-pragmatic competence: Typical and atypical processes in infancy). In M. Irak (ed.) Davranış Bozuklukları ve Biliş, pp. 97-138. Istanbul: Bahçeşehir University Press.
  • Ateş, B.Ş., Demir, Ö.E., Küntay, A.C. (2016). Children’s referential choices in Turkish: Experimentally elicited and conversationally occasioned determinants. In B. Haznedar & F.N. Ketrez (eds). The acquisition of Turkish in childhood,pp. 153-175. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi.org/10.1075/tilar.20.07ate
  • Veryeri, I. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2016). Türkiye’de 0-3 yaş aralığındaki bebek ve çocukların kitapla tanıştırılması (Introducing books to children ages 0 to 3 in Turkey). In Bettina Kümmerling (ed.). Erken Okur-Yazarlık: 0-3 Yaş Arası Çocuk Kitapları. Istanbul: Koç University Publications.
  • Ateş, B.Ş. & Küntay, A.C. (2015). Children’s sensitivity to caregiver cues and the role of adult feedback in the development of referential communication. In L. Serratrice and S. Allen (eds.) The acquisition of reference,pp. 241-262. TiLAR Series (Trends in Language Acquisition Research). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Küntay, A., Nakamura, K., & Ateş-Şen, A. B. (2014). Crosslinguistic and crosscultural approaches to pragmatic development. In D. Matthews (Ed.), Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Sen, H., Yavuz-Muren, M., & Yagmurlu, B. (2014). Parenting: The Turkish context.  In. H. Selin (Ed.), Parenting across cultures: Childrearing, motherhood and fatherhood in non-western cultures. Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. vol 7. (pp. 175-192).  Netherlands: Springer.
  • Taşçı, S. S. (2013). Hand reversal and assimilation in TİD lexicalized fingerspelling. In E. Arik (Ed.), Current directions in Turkish Sign Language research (pp.71-100).  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Yagmurlu, B., & Sen, H. (2015). Eisenberg’s theory of prosocial reasoning. In H. Keller & J. Berry (Eds.), International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Elsevier.
  • Yagmurlu, B., Yavuz, M. , & Sen, H. (2014). Well-being, stress, and support in mothers of children with chronic orthopedic disability: Findings from a predominantly disadvantaged Turkish sample. Journal of Child and Family Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10826-014-9905-8
  • Demir, O. E. & Küntay, A. C. (2014). Narrative development. In P. Brooks, V. Kempe, & J.G. Golson (eds.) Encyclopedia of Language Development.Sage Publications.
  • Küntay, A. C. & Özge, D. (2014). Word order as a structural cue and word ordering as an interactional process in early language acquisition. In Arnon, I., Casillas, M., Kurumada, C. & Estigarribia, B. (eds.) Language in interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark. TiLAR. John Benjamins Publications.
  • Baydar. N., Küntay, A. C., Aydemir, N., Çankaya, D., Gökşen, F. & Cemalcılar, Z. (2014). “It takes a village” to support the vocabulary development of children with multiple risk factors. Developmental Psychology. Advance Online Publication.doi: 10.1037/a0034785.
  • Demir, Ö. E. & Küntay, A. C. (2014). Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Socioeconomic Gradients in Language Development: New Answers to Old Questions. Child Development Perspectives, 8:113-118.
  • Blom, E., Küntay, A.C., Messer, M., Verhagen, J. & Leseman, P. (2014). The benefits of being bilingual: Working memory in bilingual Turkish-Dutch Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 128:105-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.06.007
  • Küntay, A.C. Nakamura, K. & Ateş, B.Ş. (2014). Crosslinguistic and crosscultural approaches to pragmatic development.Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition by Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 317-341. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Gözkan, A. D. & Küntay, A.C. (2014). Linguistic representation of emotion terms: Variation with respect to self-construal and education. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
  • Furman, R., Küntay, A.C. & Özyürek, A. (2013). Early language-specificity of children’s event encoding in speech and gesture: evidence from caused motion in Turkish. Language and Cognitive Processes.
  • Köymen, B. & Küntay, A.C. (2013). Turkish children’s conversational oppositions: Usage of two discourse markers. Discourse Processes, 50:6, 388-406.
  • Sarılar, A., Matthews, D. & Küntay. A. C. (2013). Hearing relative clauses boosts relative clause usage (and referential clarity) in young Turkish language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716413000192
  • Demir, E. & Küntay, A. C. (2012). Dil ve iletişim becerilerinin gelişiminde ana babalık etkileri (Influences of parents on the development of language and communication skills). In M. Sayıl & B. Yağmurlu (eds.). Ana Babalık: Kuram ve Araştırma (Parenting: Theory and Research). Koç University Press.
  • Küntay, A. C. (2012). Crosslinguistic research. In Erika Hoff (Ed.) Research methods in child language: A practical guide,pp. 287-299. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Candan, A., Küntay, A.C., Yeh, Y., Cheung, H., Wagner, L. & Naigles L.R. (2012). Language and age effects in children’s processing of word order. Cognitive Development, (27)3, 205–221.
  • Sarılar, A. & Küntay, A. C. (2011). Do young learners pick up on relative clause constructions in referential communication? A training study. In E. Erguvanlı Taylan & B. Rona (Eds.). Puzzles of language: Essays in honour of Karl Zimmer. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
  • Ural, A. E., Yüret, D., Ketrez, F. N., Koçbaş, D. & Küntay, A. C. (2009). Morphological cues vs. number of nominals in learning verb types in Turkish: The syntactic bootstrapping mechanism revisited. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 1393-1405.
  • Bahtiyar, S. & Küntay, A.C. (2009). Integration of Communicative Partner’s Visual Perspective in Patterns of Referential Requests. Journal of Child Language, 36, 529-555.
  • Küntay, A. C. (2009). Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions: Effects of the relational context. In A. Aksu-Koç & S. Bekman (Eds.) Perspectives on Human Development, Family and Culture (pp. 178-193). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Küntay, A.C. & Koçbaş, D. (2009). . Effects of lexical items and construction types in English and Turkish character introductions in elicited narrative. In J. Guo, E. Lieven, N. Budwig, S. Ervin-Tripp, K. Nakamura & Ş. Özçalışkan (Eds.) Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin,pp. 81-92. New York, London: Psychology Pres,Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Baydar, N., Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç, Küntay, A. C., & Gökşen, F. (2008). Effects of an educational television program on preschoolers: Variability in benefits. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29, 349-360.
  • Göksun, T., Küntay, A.C. & Naigles, L.R. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323.
  • Küntay, A.C. & Özyürek, A. (2006). Learning to use demonstratives in conversation: What do language-specific strategies in Turkish reveal? Journal of Child Language, 33, 303-320
  • Küntay, A.C. & Ahtam, B. (2004). Annelerin çocuklarıyla geçmiş hakkındaki konuşmalarının anne eğitim düzeyiyle ilişkisi. Türk Psikoloji Dergisi, 19(54), 19-31.
  • Küntay, A.C. (2004). Lists as Alternative Discourse Structures to Narratives in Preschool Children’s Conversations. Discourse Processes, 38, 95-118.
  • Küntay, A. C., Gülgöz, S. & Tekcan, A.İ. (2004). Disputed Memories of Twins: How Ordinary Are They? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 405-413.
  • Küntay, A.C. & Nakamura, K. (2004). Linguistic strategies serving evaluative functions: A comparison between Japanese and Turkish narratives. In S. Strömqvist, & L. Verhoeven (Eds.) Relating events in narrative, Volume 2: Typological and contextual perspectives,pp. 329-358. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Küntay, A.C. & Şenay, I. (2003). Narratives beget narratives: Rounds of stories in Turkish preschool conversations. Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 559-87.
  • İkier, S., Tekcan, A., Gülgöz, S. & Küntay, A. (2003). Whose Life is it Anyway? Adoption of Each Other’s Autobiographical Memories in Twins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 237-247.
  • Küntay, A.C. (2002). Occasions for providing resolutions (or not) in Turkish preschool conversations. Narrative Inquiry, 11, 411-450.
  • Küntay, A. (2002). Development of the Expression of Indefiniteness: Presenting New referents in Turkish Picture-series Stories.Discourse Processes, 33, 77-101.
  • Küntay, A. & Slobin, D. I. (2002). Putting interaction back into child language: Examples from Turkish. Psychology of Language and Communication, 6: 5-14.
  • Inkelas, S., Hansson, G., Küntay, A., & Orgun, O. (2001). Labial Attraction in Turkish: An Empirical Perspective. Turkic Languages, 5, 169-197.
  • Inkelas, S., Küntay, A., Sprouse, R. & Orgun, O. (2000). Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL). Turkic Languages,4, 253-275.
  • Küntay, A.C. (1999). How do Turkish preschoolers anchor referents in conversational extended discourse? Psychology of Language and Communication, 3(2), 83-90.
  • Küntay, A. & Slobin, D.I. (1999). The acquisition of Turkish as a native language: A research review. Turkic Languages, 3(2), 151-188.
  • Küntay, A. & Ervin-Tripp, S. (1997). Conversational narratives of children: Occasions and structures. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7(1-4), 113-120.
  • Ervin-Tripp, S. & Küntay, A. (1997). The occasioning and structure of conversational stories. In T. Givón (Ed.) Conversation: Cognitive, Communicative and Social Perspectives,pp. 133-166. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Küntay, A. & Slobin, D.I. (1996). Listening to a Turkish mother: Some puzzles for acquisition. In D.I. Slobin, J. Gerhardt, A. Kyratzis, & J. Guo (Eds.) Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language,pp. 265-286. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Conference Proceedings

  • Vogt, P., van den Berghe, R., de Haas, M., Hoffman, L., Kanero, J., Mamus, E., Montanier, H. M., Oranç, C., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Garcia‖., D. H., Papadopoulos, F., Schodde, T., Verhagen, J., Wallbridge, C. D., Willemsen, B., de Wit, J., Belpaeme, T., Göksun, T., Kopp, S., Krahmer, E., Küntay, A. C., Leseman, P., Pandey A. K., (2019) Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots: A Large-Scale Study. Paper presented at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (IEEE/ACM) 2019, Daegu, Korea.
  • Kanero, J., Franko, I., Oranç, C., Uluşahin, O., Koşkulu, S., Adıgüzel, Z., Küntay, A. C., & Göksun, T. (2018). Who can benefit from robots? Effects of individual differences in robot-assisted language learning. Paper presented at the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) 2018, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Kanero, J., Oranç, C., Franko, I., Uluşahin, O., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Effects of feedback types on L2 word learning. Paper presented at the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) 2018, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Tasci, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2016). Functions of evidentials in Turkish child and child-directed speech in early child-caregiver interactions. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press
  • Özge, D., Kornfilt, J., Münster, K., Knoeferle, P., Küntay, A.C., & Snedeker, J. (2016). Predictive use of case markers in German children. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 291-303. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Belpaeme, T., Vogt, P., Kopp, S., Leseman, P., Küntay, A.C., Göksun, T. & Pandey, A. (2015). L2TOR: Second language tutoring using social robots. Paper published in the proceeding of First International Workshop on Educational Robots (Wonder).
  • Blom, E., Küntay, A.C., Messer, M., Verhagen, J. & Leseman, P. (2014). Do bilingual Turkish-Dutch children show working memory benefits despite lower linguistic proficiency? Proceedings of the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Child LanguageDevelopment,pp. 64-76. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Wang, H., Höhle, K. Ketrez, N., Küntay, A. C. & Mintz. (2011). Cross-linguistic distributional analyses with frequent frames: The cases of German and Turkish. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Furman, R., Özyürek, A. & Küntay, A. C. (2010). Early language-specificity in Turkish children’s motion expressions in speech and gesture. In K. Franich, K. M. Iserman, and L. L. Keil (Eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,pp. 126-137. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Acarlar, F., Aksu-Koç, A., Küntay, A. C., Maviş, İ., Sofu, H., Topbaş, S. &Turan, F. (2009). Adapting MB-CDI to Turkish: The first phase. In S. Ay, Ö. Aydın., İ. Ergenç, S. Gökmen, S. İşsever, and D. Peçenel (Eds.). Essays on Turkish linguistics: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August 6-8, 2008. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, Germany.
  • Yüret, D., Ural, A. E., Ketrez, F. N., Koçbaş, D. & Küntay, A. C. (2009). Morphological cues vs. number of nominals in learning verb types in Turkish: Syntactic bootstrapping mechanism revisited. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, and M. Rheiner (Eds.) A Supplement to the Proceedings of the 33rd Boston University Conference on Language Development.
  • Küntay, A. C.,Bahtiyar, S.A., Sungur, H. & Özdamar, Ö. (2008). Requestive speech leads to referential clarity in Turkish Preschool Children. In H. Chan, H. Jacob, and E. Kapia (Eds.) Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,pp. 239-250. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Bahtiyar, S.A. & Küntay, A. C. (2007). Preschool children can assess common ground: Effect of (in)definiteness status of referential terms. Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Naigles, L. R., Küntay, A.C., Göksun, T. & Lee, J. N. (2006). Language-specific properties influence children’s acquisition of argument structure. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 388-398. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Demir, E.Ö., Küntay, A. C. & Özyürek, A. (2005). Görme engelli Türk çocuklarının ve annelerinin işaret zamiri kullanımı: Dokunsal ortak dikkat. 2. Ulusal Dil ve Konuşma Bozuklukları Kongresi Bildiri Kitabı (Seyhun Topbaş, Ed.), Ankara: Kök Yayıncılık.
  • Küntay, A. & Özyürek, A. (2002). Development of the use of demonstrative pronouns in Turkish. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish, and A.H. Do (Eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,pp. 336-347. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Küntay, A. & Slobin, D.I. (2001). Discourse behavior of lexical categories in Turkish child-directed speech: Nouns vs. verbs. In Almgren, M., Barreña, A., Ezeizabarrena , M., Idiazabal I., and MacWhinney B. (eds.) Research on Child Language Acquisition: Proceedings for the 8th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language,pp. 928-946, Cascadilla Press.
  • Zimmer, K. & Küntay, A. (2000). Turkish internal vowel harmony Revisited. Proceedings of the International Conference for Turkish Linguistics. Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, August 16-18.
  • Inkelas, S., Küntay, A., Orgun, C.O. & Sprouse, R. (2000). Turkish electronic living lexicon (TELL): A lexical database. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.Athens, Greece.
  • Küntay, A. & Ervin-Tripp, S. (1998). Conversational narratives of Turkish children: Occasions and structures. In A. Aksu-Koç, E.
  • Erguvanlı-Taylan, A. Sumru Özsoy & A. Küntay (Eds.) Perspectives in language acquisition: Selected papers from the International Congress for the Study of Child Language.(July 14-19, 1996).
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Presentations

  • İleri, Ç. İ. (2023, June). LEGO, Origami, and More: Intervention Methods Targeting Spatial Cognition Development (Oral presentation). 7th Psychology Days, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. pdf
  • Sodacı, H., Küntay, Aylin C., & Kumkale, G. T. (May 7, 2023). Challenges in measuring attitudes toward social robots (Poster presentation). International Symposium of Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS), May 7, 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Koskulu, S., Uzundağ, B. A., Özdemirhan, B., Türkmen, İ. & Küntay, A. C. (2019). Anne davranışları ve eğitiminin anne-bebek ortak dikkat süreçlerindeki rolü. Poster presentation at 2. Gelişim Sempozyumu, İzmir, Türkiye.
  • Koskulu, S., Uzundağ, B. A., Özdemirhan, B., Türkmen, İ. & Küntay, A. C. (2019). Anne davranışlarının anne-bebek ortak dikkat süreçleri ve dil gelişimi üzerindeki rolü. Poster presentation at Deneysel-Bilişsel Psikoloji Sempozyumu, İstanbul, Türkiye.
  • Sen, H., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, March). Norm enforcement for rule abiding among friends: Prevention versus intervention strategies. Poster will be presented at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial, Maryland, the USA.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Koşkulu, S., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, March). Attentional Orienting in Infancy is Associated with Temperament and Cognitive Development. Poster session to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.
  • Oranç, C., İleri, Ç. İ., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, March). Preschoolers’ Causal Learning from Print and Electronic Books. Poster session to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Koşkulu, S., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, January). The Development of Attentional Orienting and its Relation to Cognitive Development. Poster to be presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Şen, H. H., & Küntay, A. C. (2018, November). Çocuklarla Yapılan Toplu Mülakat Yönteminde Yalan Söylemenin Sözlü Olmayan Göstergeleri. Oral presentation at the 20th National Congress of Psychology, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Şen, H. H., & Küntay, A. C. (2018, November). Kurallara Uymada Çocukların Kullandığı Önleme ve Müdahale Yöntemleri. Oral presentation at the 20th National Congress of Psychology, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Oranç, C., İleri, Ç. İ., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Okul Öncesi Dönemde Çocukların Basılı ve Elektronik Kitaplarda Gerçeklik Algısı. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Türkiye.
  • Koşkulu, S., Kanero J,, Oranç C., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Robotların jestler ve geribildirim ile okul öncesi dönemde İngilizce eğitimine katkıları. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Türkiye.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Koşkulu, S., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Bebeklikte dikkati yönlendirme davranışının mizaç ve bilişsel gelişim ile ilgisi. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Türkiye.
  • Aktan-Erciyes, A., Uzundag, B. A., & Göksun, T. (2018). On the way to talk about motion events: A longitudinal study. Poster session presented at the 21st International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan, D., & Küntay, A. (2018). Semantic prediction during language processing: The case of Dutch and Turkish. Talk to be presented by S. Brouwer at the Attentive Listener in the Visual World (AttLis), Trondheim, August 28.
  • Koşkulu, S., Ger., E., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Relationship between gesture and language in infants: Looking While Listening Task. Talk presented by S. Koşkulu at 8th Conference of International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture and Diversity, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Uzundag, B. A., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Preschoolers’ Referential Communication Skills: Learning from Adults and the Impact of Executive Functions. Poster session presented at the 30th Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, USA.
  • Demir-Lira, E., Oranç, C, Kanero, J, Koşkulu S., Franko, İ., Adıgüzel, Z., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. (2018). The effect of using social robots in second language teaching. Poster session presented in Turkey Robotic Science Conference, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • Uzundag, B. A., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish: An analysis of spontaneous interactions. Talk presented at the 1st Boğaziçi University Student Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Children’s referential communication skills: The role of cognitive abilities and adult models of speech. Poster session presented at the 8th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Kanero, J., de Haas, M., Mamus, E., Oranç, C., van den Berghe, R., Verhagen, J., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Bergmann, K., Schodde, T.,
  • Küntay, A., Göksun, T., & Vogt, P. (2017). Observing Human Tutoring to Develop Robot-Based Language Lessons. Presentation given at the 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Bielefeld, Germany.
  • Geçkin, V., Mamus, E., Oranç C., Kanero, J., Küntay, A., & Göksun, T. (2017, August). L2 Teachers’ Verbal and Nonverbal Orchestration in Preschools: Implications for Educational Robots. Poster presented at the 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2017, August). Hearing object relative clauses improves children’s ability to describe referents uniquely. Poster session presented at the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, NL.
  • Oranç, C. & Küntay, A. C. (2017, August) Preschoolers’ attitudes towards learning from robots across different domains, 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Geçkin, V., Mamus, E., Oranç C., Güven, B., Küntay, A., & Göksun, T. (2017, April). Development of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language: Can Feedback Defeat Complexity?. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
  • Oranç, C. & Küntay, A. C. (2017, April). Learning of new information from books is associated with perception of event reality and fantasy orientation in preschoolers, Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Austin TX, USA.
  • Oranç, C. & Küntay, A. C. (2017, January). Not their age but children’s fantastical beliefs affect their reality judgments, 6th Budapest Central European University (CEU) Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan, D., & Küntay, A. (2017). Semantic prediction in monolingual and bilingual children. Talk presented by S.
  • Brouwer at Cross-linguistic Influences in Bilingualism, in honor of Aafke Hulk, Amsterdam, January 13.
  • Özge, D. & Özkan, D. (2017). Sözlü dil anlama süreçlerinin incelenmesinde eş-zamanlı bir yöntem: Görsel bağlamda göz izleme paradigması. Talk presented by D. Özkan at Türkçe Okumada Göz Hareketleri Sempozyumu (EyeTR), April 8, 2017, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan, D., Küntay, A. (2016). Semantic prediction in monolingual and bilingual children. Talk presented by S. Brouwer at the 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC2), October 31 – November 1, 2016, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
  • Özkan, D. & Küntay, A. (2016). TİGE-Türkçe İletişim Gelişim Envanterinin Uzun Vadeli Öngörü Değeri. Poster presented at 19. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, September 5-7, 2015, İzmir, Turkey.
  • Özkan, D. & Küntay, A. (2016). Predictive Processing in Sentence Comprehension in Children: Grammatical knowledge and working memory matter. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS 2016), May 26-29, 2016, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Oranç, C. & Küntay, A. C. (2016, October). Dragons don’t exist in e-books: children’s understanding of impossibility across different media, SRCD Special Topic Meeting: Technology and Media in Children’s Development, Irvine CA, USA.
  • Özkan, D., Brouwer S., Küntay, A. (2015). Ye deyince leblebi’yi anlamak: Cümle anlamada tahmin süreçleri. Talk presented at Deneysel-Bilişsel Psikoloji Sempozyumu III, September 2-3, 2015, Ankara Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Brouwer S., Özkan, D., Küntay, A. (2015). Verb-based anticipation during language processing: Turkish and Dutch. Poster presented by S. Brouwer at the Child Language Symposium (CLS), July 20-21, 2015, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
  • Brouwer S., Özkan, D., Küntay, A. (2015). Linguistic anticipation cued by verb semantics: Turkish and Dutch. Poster presented by D. Özkan at the 2nd International Symposium On Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS), April 19, 2015, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Belpaeme, T., Kennedy, J., Baxter, P., Vogt, P., Krahmer, E. J., Kopp, S., Bergmann, K., Leseman, P., Küntay, A., Göksun, T., Pandey, A. K., Gelin, R., Koudelkova, P., & Deblieck, T. (2015). L2TOR – Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots. In Proceedings of 1st Int. Workshop on Educational Robots. Springer.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Taşçı, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2015, June). Differentiation of evidential functions in Turkish child and child-directed speech. Talk presented at LingDay, Boğaziçi University.
  • Uzundag, B. A., Taşçı, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2015, March). Differentiation of evidential functions in Turkish child and child-directed speech. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan, D., Küntay, A. (2014). Verb-based anticipation during language processing: Turkish and Dutch. Talk presented at the First International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL, 2014), November 5, 2014, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Brouwer, S., Özkan, D., & Küntay, A. (2014, October). Predictive processing of language by monolinguals (and bilinguals). Talk presented  at the Symposium on Bilingualism, Cognitive Development and Societal Implications, Istanbul.
  • Özge D., Özkan, D., Uzundağ, B., Küntay, A. and Snedeker J. (2014). Turkish-speaking children use verbal morphemes to predict argument structure. Poster presented by D. Özge at CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, May 2014 Ohio, USA.