Kabak

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• Phonology and Phonetics
• Prosodic Phonology
• Music-Prosody Interface
• Prosodic Typology
• Phonological Change and Variation
• Morphology and Syntax
• Morphophonology and its interfaces with syntax
• Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Bilingualism
• English Linguistics
• English Phonetics and Phonology
• English Morphology
• Sociophonetics of English Varieties
• Turkish Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
• Korean Phonology
• Deviations from linguistic patterns with focus on psycholinguistic and neural effects of prosodic mismatches within, across and beyond linguistic domains
• Phonetic and prosodic variation in English varieties
• The effect of crosslinguistic differences on multilingual phonology
• How phonology of words and phonological patterns in the lexicon reflect prosodic change
• For a list of my publications and talks, please click here. To follow my work, please refer to ResearchGate, ORCID, or Loop: The Open Science Research Network

I currently serve as Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU). Between 2018 and 2021, I was a member of the University Board as Vice President for Internationalization, Alumni and Public Relations. In this period, I founded JMU Podcast, the podcast of the University of Würzburg (click here for a press release and here for the Main Post article). Since 2020, I have been representing JMU in the Coimbra Group’s Equality and Diversity Working Group.

Prior to my appointment at the University of Würzburg, I held the position of Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) of English and General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz (2005–2011). During this period, I substituted a full professorship in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics (2008–2009), and then a full professorship in English and General Linguistics (2009–2010). During this period, I led the SFB sub-project ‘Phonological Exceptions and Subregularities in the Lexicon’ (2006-2008) within the Special Research Unit (SFB 471) ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

My academic trajectory includes several international research stays. In Summer 2010, I was a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, followed by a short-term visiting research opportunity in the Department of Second Language Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in October 2016. I reconnected with the linguistics community at the University of Oxford in the Winter of 2025 as a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. More recently, through an international funding programme of the Bavarian Resarch Alliance, I had the opportunity to develop research collaborations with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, where I stayed as a short-term visiting researcher.

Before I got on the professorial track, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Morphological Typology: Agglutination-Flexion’ led by Prof. Dr. Frans Plank within SFB 471 at Konstanz (2003-2005). Prior to that, I taught various linguistics courses at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, at the University of Delaware in the USA, where I was a graduate student (1998-2003), and a Competitive Fellow. I did my undergraduate studies in English Language Teaching and Linguistics at Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey, and at the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA. I am a native of Istanbul.

Courses in Summer Semester 2026

Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics – Mondays, 12-14

Übung: Introduction to English Linguistics – Mondays, 16-18

Seminar: Second Language Acquisition – Tuesdays, 10-12

Seminar: Research Projects in Empirical Linguistics – Wednesdays, 10-12

Recently organized workshops

Workshop: Multifaceted and Multifactorial Approaches to Developing Phonological Systems (https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=4589). 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 47, https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?sub=167), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 05.03-06.03.2025 (mit Prof. Angela Grimm).

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.

Publications

Curriculum Vitae