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Education Information
2000 - 2005
2000 - 2005Doctorate
Middle East Technical University, Graduate School Of Social Sciences, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi (Dr), Turkey
2002 - 2003
2002 - 2003Postgraduate
University of Essex, Language And Linguistics, United Kingdom
1997 - 2000
1997 - 2000Postgraduate
Middle East Technical University, Graduate School Of Social Sciences, İngiliz Dili Öğretimi (Yl) (Tezli), Turkey
1993 - 1997
1993 - 1997Undergraduate Minor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Education, Department Of Foreign Language Education, Turkey
1993 - 1997
1993 - 1997Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Education, Department Of Foreign Language Education, Turkey
Dissertations
2005
2005Doctorate
WORDS AND RULES IN L2 PROCESSING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DUAL-MECHANISM MODEL
Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, İngiliz Dili Öğretimi
2003
2003Postgraduate
The Mental Representation of L2 English Past TenseMorphology: A Psycholinguistic Analysis
University Of Essex, Language And Linguistics
2000
2000Postgraduate
A Comparison of the analyses and evaluations of observed classroom events by co-operating teachers and student teachers: A case study
Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, İngiliz Dili Öğretimi (Yl) (Tezli)
Foreign Languages
C1 Advanced
C1 AdvancedGerman
C1 Advanced
C1 AdvancedEnglish
Research Areas
Social Sciences and Humanities, Philology, Linguistics
Academic Titles / Tasks
2019 - Continues
2019 - ContinuesProfessor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Education, Department Of Foreign Language Education
2014 - 2019
2014 - 2019Associate Professor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Education, Department Of Foreign Language Education
2011 - 2014
2011 - 2014Assistant Professor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Education, Department Of Foreign Language Education
2009 - 2010
2009 - 2010Lecturer PhD
University of Oxford, Oriental Studies, Turkish
2007 - 2009
2007 - 2009Assistant Professor
Baskent University, Faculty Of Educatıon, Department Of Foreıgn Language Educatıon
2006 - 2007
2006 - 2007Lecturer PhD
Baskent University, Faculty Of Educatıon, Department Of Foreıgn Language Educatıon
1997 - 2005
1997 - 2005Research Assistant
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Education, Department Of Foreign Language Education
Managerial Experience
2019 - Continues
2019 - ContinuesDirector Of Junior College
Middle East Technical University, School of Foreign Languages
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019Vice Dean
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018Head of Department
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education
2012 - 2013
2012 - 2013Deputy Head of Department
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education
Advising Theses
2022
2022Doctorate
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE L1 AND L2 PROCESSING OF MORPHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX WORDS
Kirkici B. (Consultant)
H.KAHRAMAN(Student)
2020
2020Doctorate
PHONOLOGICAL MEDIATION IN READING: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Acartürk C. , Kırkıcı B. (Co-Consultant)
A.ÖZKAN(Student)
2020
2020Doctorate
Investigations of the mind and brain: Assessing behavioral and neural priming in L2 morphology
Kırkıcı B. (Consultant)
O.DEMİR(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
The processing of ambiguous morphemes in Turkish
Kırkıcı B. (Consultant)
E.ATAMAN(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
The effects of cross-morphemic letter transpositions on morphological processing in Turkish: A psycholinguistic ınvestigation
Kırkıcı B. (Consultant)
O.CAN(Student)
2018
2018Postgraduate
The second language processing of nominal compounds: A masked priming study
KIRKICI B. (Consultant)
N.ÇELİKKOL(Student)
2018
2018Postgraduate
Morphological processing in developing readers: A psycholinguistic study on Turkish primary school children
KIRKICI B. (Consultant)
E.UĞUZ(Student)
2015
2015Postgraduate
Morphological processing of inflected and derived words in L1 Turkish and L2 English
KIRKICI B. (Consultant)
D.FATMA(Student)
2014
2014Postgraduate
The Morphological processing of derived words in L1 Turkish and L2 English /
KIRKICI B. (Consultant)
P.Gacan(Student)
2014
2014Postgraduate
The morphological processing of derived words in L1 Turkish and L2 English
KIRKICI B. (Consultant)
P.GACAN(Student)
Articles Published in Journals That Entered SCI, SSCI and AHCI Indexes
2021
2021Letter transpositions and morphemic boundaries in the second language processing of derived words: An exploratory study of individual differences
Kahraman H., KIRKICI B.
APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, vol.42, no.2, pp.417-446, 2021 (Journal Indexed in SSCI)
2021
2021Eye movement control in Turkish sentence reading
Özkan A., Beken Fikri F., Kırkıcı B. , Kliegl R., Acartürk C.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol.74, no.2, pp.377-397, 2021 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
2020
2020The interpretation of syntactically unconstrained anaphors in Turkish heritage speakers
Gračanin-Yuksek M. , Lago S., Şafak D. F. , Demir O. , Kırkıcı B.
SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH, vol.36, no.4, pp.475-501, 2020 (Journal Indexed in SSCI)
2020
2020Investigation of the Processing of Noun and Verb Words with fMRI in Patients with Schizophrenia
Nazlı Ş. B. , Koçak O. M. , Kırkıcı B. , Sevindik M., Kokurcan A.
NOROPSIKIYATRI ARSIVI-ARCHIVES OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY, vol.57, no.1, pp.9-14, 2020 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
2019
2019Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers: A masked priming study on Turkish
JACOB G., SAFAK D. F. , Demir O. , KIRKICI B.
SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH, vol.35, no.2, pp.173-194, 2019 (Journal Indexed in SSCI)
2019
2019Straight from the horse's mouth Agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors
LAGO S., Gracanin Yüksek M. , SAFAK D. F. , Demir O. , KIRKICI B. , FELSER C.
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO BILINGUALISM, vol.9, no.3, pp.398-426, 2019 (Journal Indexed in SSCI)
2019
2019Locative verbs in Turkish: A psycholinguistic analysis
Kirmizi G. D. , Kirkici B.
Turkic Languages, vol.23, no.1, pp.67-80, 2019 (Journal Indexed in AHCI)
2017
2017The Interaction of Contextual and Syntactic Information in the Processing of Turkish Anaphors
Gracanın-Yuksek M. , Lago S., Safak D. F. , Demir O. , Kırkıcı B.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH, vol.46, pp.1397-1425, 2017 (Journal Indexed in SSCI)
2013
2013Inflection and derivation in native and non-native language processing: Masked priming experiments on Turkish
KIRKICI B. , Clahsen H.
BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION, vol.16, no.4, pp.776-791, 2013 (Journal Indexed in SSCI)
Articles Published in Other Journals
2019
2019The generalization of inflectional and derivational patterns to novel stems by l1 Turkish learners of l2 English D1 Türkçe D2 İngilizce Konuşucularının Çekimsel ve Türetimsel Örüntüleri Genelleme Biçimleri Üzerine
Ataman E. , Çağlar O. C. , Kırkıcı B.
Dilbilim Arastirmalari Dergisi, vol.30, pp.103-121, 2019 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
2019
2019The Generalization of Inflectional and Derivational Patterns to Novel Stems by L1 Turkish Learners of L2 English
KIRKICI B. , ATAMAN E. , Çağlar O. C.
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol.30, no.1, pp.103-121, 2019 (Other Refereed National Journals)
2017
2017Kompulsiyonlar bir eylemin sonlanması durumunda içsel bir model oluşmasındaki problemle ilişkili olabilir mi?
Koçak O. M. , Kırkıcı B. , Dağlı M., Kafadar T., Yılmaz Özpolat A. G.
TURKISH JOURNAL of CLINICS and LABORATORY, vol.8, pp.35-42, 2017 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
2016
2016The processing of morphologically complex words in a specific speaker group A masked-priming study with Turkish heritage speakers
Jacob G., Kirkici B.
MENTAL LEXICON, vol.11, pp.308-328, 2016 (Journal Indexed in ESCI)
2012
2012The L2 production of English comparative structures More support for L2 developmental changes
KIRKICI B.
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012 (Other Refereed National Journals)
2009
2009İmparator Çizelgesi vs İmparatorlar Çizelgesi On the Non Use of Plural Non Head Nouns in Turkish Nominal Compounding
KIRKICI B.
Dilbilim Araştırmaları, pp.35-53, 2009 (Other Refereed National Journals)
2007
2007The mental processing of L2 English lexical compounds a developmental dual mechanism account
KIRKICI B.
EUROSLA Yearbook, pp.7-25, 2007 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
2007
2007Meine Hobbys sind Müzik hören und Swimmen Lexical Transfer in L1 Turkish L2 English Learners of L3 German
KIRKICI B.
Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, pp.1, 2007 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
2004
2004Foreign language medium instruction and bilingualism the analysis of a myth
KIRKICI B.
Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, pp.109-122, 2004 (Other Refereed National Journals)
2004
2004The processing of relative clause attachment ambiguities in Turkish
KIRKICI B.
Turkic Languages, pp.111-121, 2004 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
Refereed Congress / Symposium Publications in Proceedings
2019
2019The Effect of Morphological Factors on the Written Production of Turkish Compounds
Kırkıcı B. , Çağlar O. C. , Ataman E.
11th International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc), Stuttgart, Germany, 4 - 06 November 2019, pp.1
2019
2019Türkçe Birleşik Sözcüklerin Yazılı Üretiminde Biçimbilimsel Faktörlerin Etkisi: Ruhdilbilimsel Bir İnceleme
Kırkıcı B. , Çağlar O. C. , Ataman E.
Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Mersin, Turkey, 9 - 10 May 2019, pp.1
2018
2018The processing of English-Turkish (false) cognates: What is the role of morphology?
Kırkıcı B. , Çağlar O. C. , Ataman E.
2nd International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC-TU), Braunschweig, Germany, 24 - 25 May 2018
2018
2018İlkokul Çocuklarında Biçimbilimsel İşlemleme
UĞUZ E., KIRKICI B.
32. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, İzmir, Turkey, 3 - 04 May 2018
2018
2018Zaman Gösteren Tümcelerin İkinci Dilde Edinimi: “before” ve “after”
Gracanin Yüksek M. , KIRKICI B.
32. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, İzmir, Turkey, 3 - 04 May 2018
2017
2017Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers: Evidence from a masked priming study on Turkish
JACOB G., SAFAK D. F. , DEMİR O. , KIRKICI B.
Conference on Multilingualism 2017, Groningen, Netherlands, 6 - 08 November 2017
2017
2017The Role of Letter Frequency on Eye Movements in Sentential Pseudoword Reading
ACARTÜRK C. , KILIÇ Ö., KIRKICI B. , CAN BUĞLALILAR B., Özkan A.
the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26 - 29 July 2017
2017
2017The role of morphology in the processing of English-Turkish false cognates: Evidence from a backward lexical translation task
KIRKICI B. , ÇAĞLAR O. C. , ATAMAN E.
10th International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc), Trieste, Italy, 22 - 24 June 2017
2017
2017Anaphor interpretation in Turkish heritage speakers
LAGO s., Gracanin Yüksek M. , SAFAK D. F. , DEMİR O. , KIRKICI B.
InternationalSymposium on Bilingualism, 11 - 15 June 2017
2017
2017Contextual and Syntactic Information Jointly Affect the Processing of Turkish Anaphors
Lago S., Gracanin Yüksek M. , Fatma Şafak D., DEMİR O., KIRKICI B.
The 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 30 March - 01 April 2017
2017
2017Eye movements in Turkish Pseudoword Reading
ACARTÜRK C. , CAN BUĞLALILAR B., KILIÇ Ö., KIRKICI B. , ÖZKAN A.
18th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), 24 - 26 February 2017
2017
2017Reading in an Agglutinative Language: Insights from Turkish.
KIRKICI B. , ACARTÜRK C.
18th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), 24 - 26 February 2017
2017
2017EyeTracking in Reading Research: Challenges for Agglutinative Languages
ACARTÜRK C. , KIRKICI B.
18th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), 24 - 26 February 2017
2017
2017The Effect of Contextual Biases on Anaphor Resolution in Turkish
DEMİR O., şafak d. f. , gracanin yüksek M. , KIRKICI B.
18. Uluslararası Türk Dilbilim Kurultayı, 24 - 26 February 2017
2016
2016Do obsessive compulsive disorder patients have difficulty forming an internal model of the completed state of an action?
KOÇAK O. M. , Ozdel K., KIRKICI B. , Ugurlu M., Kale E., Ozpolat A. Y. , et al.
29th Congress of the European-College-of-Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), Vienna, Austria, 17 - 20 September 2016, vol.26
2016
2016Agreement Attraction in Turkish
Lago S., Gracanin Yüksek M. , Şafak D. F. , DEMİR O., KIRKICI B. , Felser C.
22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference, 1 - 03 September 2016
2016
2016Straight from the horse s mouth agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors
Lago S., Gracanin Yüksek M. , Şafak D. F. , DEMİR O., KIRKICI B. , Felser C.
Workshop on Sentence Processing in Multilingual and Other Less Commonly Studied Populations, 4 - 05 August 2016
2016
2016Kendisi ve o nun Öncüllere Gönderimi Üzerine Ruhdilbilimsel Deneyler
DEMİR O., Gracanin Yüksek M. , Şafak D. F. , KIRKICI B.
30. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Ankara, Turkey, 13 - 14 May 2016
2016
2016The processing of derived words in L2 English Further evidence for the effect of orthography
Şafak D. F. , GACAN ERTUĞRUL P. , KIRKICI B.
International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC), Kaiserslautern, Germany, 14 - 15 April 2016
2015
2015Eye Movement Control in Turkish Word Length and Morphological Complexity Effects on Fixation Landing Positions
ACARTÜRK C. , Beken F., KIRKICI B.
18th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2015), Germany, 16 - 21 August 2015
2015
2015The morphological processing of derived words in L1 and L2 Turkish
GACAN ERTUĞRUL P. , KIRKICI B.
9th International Morphological Processing Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 18 - 20 June 2015, pp.132-133
2015
2015Form and Meaning in Early Morphological Processing A Masked Priming Study on Turkish
DENİZ S., KIRKICI B.
9th International Morphological Processing Conference, Germany, 18 - 20 June 2015, pp.130-131
2015
2015Adding a third dimension Morphological processing in L1 speakers late L2 learners and heritage speakers of Turkish
KIRKICI B.
Workshop on Bilingual Morphology, 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), United States Of America, 20 - 24 May 2015
2014
2014Bilinguals see a scan in scanner AND in scandal Masked priming evidence from English German and Turkish
KIRKICI B. , Clahsen H., Heyer V., Jacob G.
9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 30 September - 02 October 2014
2014
2014The processing of morphologically complex words in Turkish heritage speakers
KIRKICI B. , Jacob G.
20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference, United Kingdom, 3 - 06 September 2014
2014
2014The processing of derived words in L1 Turkish
KIRKICI B. , GACAN ERTUĞRUL P.
17th International Conference on Turkish Linguistic (ICTL), France, 3 - 05 September 2014
2014
2014Ana dilin d e yabancı olmak Almanya da yaşayan Türklerde biçimbilimsel işlemleme
KIRKICI B.
28 Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Turkey, 8 - 09 May 2014
2009
2009Türkçe İlgi İçtümcelerini İliştirmede Belirsizlik Çevrimiçi ve Çevrimdışı Veriler
KIRKICI B. , DAĞDEVİREN KIRMIZI G., DEMİR O., Karakaya E., Alpaydın N.
23. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri, Turkey, 14 - 15 May 2009, pp.1
2008
2008Türkçede İlgi İçtümcelerinin İliştirme Belirsizliğinde Kurucu Sıklıklarının Rolü
KIRKICI B. , DAĞDEVİREN KIRMIZI G., KÜTÜKOĞLU A. İ. , Yücesoy G.
22. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayu Bildirileri, Turkey, 15 - 16 May 2008, pp.1
1999
1999Understandings and interpretations of classroom events a comparison of experienced and pre service EFL teachers
KIRKICI B. , MENGİ B.
Proceedings of the 3rd International İnged-Gazi ELT Conference, 13 - 14 May 1999, pp.57-67
Books & Book Chapters
2016
2016Syntax/semantics/pragmatics of yes/no questions in second language Turkish
Gracanin Yüksek M. , KIRKICI B.
in: Second Language Acquisition of Turkish, Ayşe Gürel, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp.165-191, 2016
Supported Projects
2015 - Continues
2015 - ContinuesTürkçe Almanca İkidillilerde Dillerarası Sözdizim İncelemesi
TUBITAK Project
KIRKICI B.
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2024Eğitim Dili İngilizce Olan Üniversitelerde Öğretim Elemanlarına Yönelik Yeni bir Hizmet İçi Eğitim Çerçevesi Geliştirilmesi
TUBITAK Project
IŞIK GÜLER H. (Executive) , ERÖZ TUĞA B. , KERESTECİOĞLU F., ERKAN G. , YALÇIN Ş., BAYYURT KERESTECİOĞLU Y., et al.
2018 - 2020
2018 - 2020İkinci Dilde Yazılı Sözcük Üretiminde Biçimbilimsel Özelliklerin Rolü
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
KIRKICI B. (Executive) , ATAMAN E.
2017 - 2019
2017 - 2019İkinci dilde biçimbilimsel işlemlemenin fonksiyonel görüntülemesi
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
KIRKICI B. (Executive) , DEMİR O.
2017 - 2017
2017 - 2017İleri Seviye İngilizce Konuşucularının Biçimbilimsel İşlemleme Stratejilerinin İncelenmesi
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
KIRKICI B. (Executive) , DEMİR O.
2014 - 2017
2014 - 2017Okumada bilişsel süreçlerin incelenmesi: Göz hareketleri kontrol modellemesi için Türkçe okuma örüntüleri derlemi
TUBITAK Project
ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D. , ACARTÜRK C. (Executive) , KIRKICI B.
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016Türkçe İkinci Dil Konuşucularında Biçimbilimsel İşlemleme
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
KIRKICI B. (Executive) , GACAN ERTUĞRUL P.
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016Ana Dil ve Miras Dil olarak Türkçede Çekimsel ve Türetimsel İşlemleme
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
KIRKICI B. (Executive) , DEMİR O.
2013 - 2014
2013 - 2014