Presentations

Selected presentations from peer-reviewed conferences (see my CV for the full list)

• Bakay, Ö., Türk, U., Demiray, D., Dillon, B. (2026). Tracking structural cues or relying on probabilistic inference in Turkish agreement?. Talk at the 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. slides


• Bakay, Ö., Akkuş, F. (2025). An experimental investigation of conjunct agreement in Turkish. Talk at the 61st Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), University of Chicago. paper


• Bakay, Ö., Burnsky, J., Keshev, M., Asatryan, M., Johnson, K., Dillon, B. (2023). Predicting disjoint reference: offline and online evidence. Poster presentation at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of Pittsburgh. poster


• Bakay, Ö., Akkuş, F., Dillon, B. (2023). The role of structural cues and recency in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish. Poster presentation at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain. poster


• Bakay, Ö., Dillon, B. (2022). C-command effects in binding third-person reflexives and pronoun in Turkish. Poster presentation at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of California Santa Cruz. slides


• Kurt, D., Bakay, Ö. (2021). Türkçede Çift Geçişli Fiilleri İşlemlemede Tematik Rolün Etkisi [The role of animacy in processing ditransitive verbs in Turkish]. Virtual talk at the 34th National Linguistics Congress in Turkey (UDK), Middle East Technical University. abstract


• Bakay, Ö., Deniz, N. D. (2021). Case interference and phrase length effects in processing Turkish center-embeddings. Poster presentation at the 34th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of Pennsylvania. slides


• Bakay, Ö., Deniz, N. D. (2020). Missing-verb illusion in Turkish center-embeddings?: An investigation of case interference and phrase lengths. Poster presentation at the 24th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference, University of Potsdam. slides