I am a linguist specialized in child language acquisition. I studied at Bogazici University and received a BA degree in English Language and Literature (1996) and an MA degree in Linguistics (1999). I received my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, U.S.A. I taught various courses on Turkish language and culture, linguistics and psychology at Yale University, Bogazici University and Istanbul Bilgi University. I am now an assistant professor in Linguistics at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Recent Presentations
- Ketrez, F. Nihan. (2011) Harmonic cues for speech segmentation: A cross-linguistic corpus study on child-directed speech. Poster accepted for presentation at BUCLD 36 November 4-6, 2011. Boston, MA.
- Ketrez, F. Nihan. (2011) Okul oncesi Turkce egitimi ve ikizlerin ozel durumu. Paper accepted for presentation at IV. Uluslararasi Turkcenin Egitimi-Ogretimi Kurultayi. Sakarya Universitesi, September 8-9, 2011, Sakarya,Turkey
- Ketrez, F. Nihan. (2011) Acquisition of Turkish morphophonology by identical twins. Poster presented at IASCL 2011, Universite du Quebec à Montreal (UQAM), July 2011, Montreal, Canada.
- Wang, Hao, Barbara Hohle, F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Kuntay & Toben H. Mintz (2010). Cross-Linguistic Distributional Analyses with Frequent Frames: the Cases of German and Turkish. Paper presented at BUCLD 35, November 2010, Boston, MA. [slides]
Selected Recent Papers
- Becker, Michael, F. Nihan Ketrez, Andrew Nevins.(2011) The surfeit of the stimulus: Analytical biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish laryngeal alternations. Language 87(1) 84-125. [LingBuzz version]
- Ural, A. Engin., Deniz Yuret, F. Nihan Ketrez, Dilara Kocbas & Aylin C. Kuntay. (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.
- Ketrez, F. Nihan & Ayhan Aksu-Koc (2009) Early Nominal Morphology: Emergence of Case and Number. In Voeikova, M and U. Stephany (Eds). The Development of Number and Case in the First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 15-48.
- Ketrez, F. Nihan. (2009) Children's comprehension of postverbal objects. In Shibagaki, R. and R. Vermeulen (Ed). Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 58. 213-223.