utku turk
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ling phd @ umd
stats and psycholinguistics janissary
ling phd @ umd
stats and psycholinguistics janissary
I find DM extremely powerful and over-generative as anyone, but arguing that merge with lexical specifications on where something can be merged, deleted, see phonology or not see phonology and connecting all this to singular citations is not less powerful.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I find DM extremely powerful and over-generative as anyone, but arguing that merge with lexical specifications on where something can be merged, deleted, see phonology or not see phonology and connecting all this to singular citations is not less powerful.
this is what you get for sending your experiment to a language philosopher. he is so real for saying "All" to other langauges he spoke.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
this is what you get for sending your experiment to a language philosopher. he is so real for saying "All" to other langauges he spoke.
I hate both notion and obsidian (for myself), because most of the time they become traps in which i try to maximize what I can do instead of doing work. I just realized I can just write more blogs and do some other "productive" procrastination by doing other stuff. I just use CotEditor now.
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I hate both notion and obsidian (for myself), because most of the time they become traps in which i try to maximize what I can do instead of doing work. I just realized I can just write more blogs and do some other "productive" procrastination by doing other stuff. I just use CotEditor now.
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Confs: 11th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic
Confs: 11th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic
We are pleased to announce that the 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open.
TU+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, as well as on languages in contact with Turkic and on languages spoken in regions where Turkic languages are spoken. TU+ showcas
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October 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Confs: 11th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic
set.seed(as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)))
or in brms, brm(..., seed = as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)), ...)
or in brms, brm(..., seed = as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)), ...)
I even use this little get_seed bash alias for grabbing a new seed from the terminal gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
set.seed(as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)))
or in brms, brm(..., seed = as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)), ...)
or in brms, brm(..., seed = as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)), ...)
productive procrastination is a hell. since I do not want to write, I wrote a spike neural network model, bird flight simulation and spine data generation, and a makefile for quarto to pdf and html. since these are interesting, i cannot even feel bad for procrastinating.
October 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
productive procrastination is a hell. since I do not want to write, I wrote a spike neural network model, bird flight simulation and spine data generation, and a makefile for quarto to pdf and html. since these are interesting, i cannot even feel bad for procrastinating.
That part of academia where you are excited about getting review assignments from journal.
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
That part of academia where you are excited about getting review assignments from journal.
I guess I have been living under a cave :D I just learned about aerospace after missing my i3wm setup from 5 years ago.
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I guess I have been living under a cave :D I just learned about aerospace after missing my i3wm setup from 5 years ago.
When I was in high school stumbleupon and goodreads were two of my favorite websites. Now, I am back in goodreads. :)
September 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
When I was in high school stumbleupon and goodreads were two of my favorite websites. Now, I am back in goodreads. :)
Reading this book called Time Regulation Institute, a satire on Turkey's modernization by the future parliament member. It is funny to read it during today's Turkey and see how wrong people like him were when they deemed bureaucracy unnecessary.
September 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reading this book called Time Regulation Institute, a satire on Turkey's modernization by the future parliament member. It is funny to read it during today's Turkey and see how wrong people like him were when they deemed bureaucracy unnecessary.
DC has very nice specific locations to hang out. But I argue that if you delete all the empty places between 4 oasis locations in DC, it will end up being smaller than Northampton, MA.
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
DC has very nice specific locations to hang out. But I argue that if you delete all the empty places between 4 oasis locations in DC, it will end up being smaller than Northampton, MA.
UMD apparently did a survey within Language Scientists in UMD and asked the question: What are you most likely to do with your stats/Who are you most likely to outsource your stats to? 😂
September 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
UMD apparently did a survey within Language Scientists in UMD and asked the question: What are you most likely to do with your stats/Who are you most likely to outsource your stats to? 😂
Just updated my website! (i) I was bored of the uniform academic website look. (ii) I also wanted to write some more blog posts and make my website around blogs. www.utkuturk.com Hopefully will be sharing blogposts soon!
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September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just updated my website! (i) I was bored of the uniform academic website look. (ii) I also wanted to write some more blog posts and make my website around blogs. www.utkuturk.com Hopefully will be sharing blogposts soon!
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✨New preprint out!
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
osf.io/preprints/ps...
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
osf.io/preprints/ps...
August 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
✨New preprint out!
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
osf.io/preprints/ps...
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Imagine going to a doctor and he is reading you a webmd page from his computer in front of you. I can do this for free with less than 100 lines of code and add a line so that I am not sued: "this is outside of scope of primary care." exact words from him. for a eyelid infection.
August 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Imagine going to a doctor and he is reading you a webmd page from his computer in front of you. I can do this for free with less than 100 lines of code and add a line so that I am not sued: "this is outside of scope of primary care." exact words from him. for a eyelid infection.
I am going to propose a class: How to type silently on your macbook so you do not annoy an entire classroom.
August 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I am going to propose a class: How to type silently on your macbook so you do not annoy an entire classroom.
It is that time of DC: If you sit in the shade you get bitten by thousand mosquitoes, if you sit under the sun, it is the most humid sun ever.
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It is that time of DC: If you sit in the shade you get bitten by thousand mosquitoes, if you sit under the sun, it is the most humid sun ever.
It is interesting that non-americans have **obligatory** "adjustment to US" online classes but americans do not even have **optional** "adjustment to working with non-native speakers" class. Imagine if americans can do additional 1500ms work of "oh maybe he was not able to lexicalize as he desired"
May 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It is interesting that non-americans have **obligatory** "adjustment to US" online classes but americans do not even have **optional** "adjustment to working with non-native speakers" class. Imagine if americans can do additional 1500ms work of "oh maybe he was not able to lexicalize as he desired"
It is kind of sad that we are getting the worse ends of two possible worlds: everything is about us is known at all times and we are monitored. But this information is **unaccessible** only when you are applying for visas. You have to spend 70USD to send all the documents.
May 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It is kind of sad that we are getting the worse ends of two possible worlds: everything is about us is known at all times and we are monitored. But this information is **unaccessible** only when you are applying for visas. You have to spend 70USD to send all the documents.
Does anyone have any data/pointers for agreement attraction in English with indefinite markers {a/an}?
May 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Does anyone have any data/pointers for agreement attraction in English with indefinite markers {a/an}?
Time to prepare my 50+ page UK Visa application after paying 200 pounds 🤪
May 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Time to prepare my 50+ page UK Visa application after paying 200 pounds 🤪
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The thesis is linked here for the curious! Full title: "On Knowing What to Say: Planning Speech Acts"
Really nicely lays out that a "computer conversant" should be capable of planning speech acts, recognizing such plans, helping them, & modeling others.
philpapers.org/rec/COHOKW-2
Really nicely lays out that a "computer conversant" should be capable of planning speech acts, recognizing such plans, helping them, & modeling others.
philpapers.org/rec/COHOKW-2
Philip Raymond Cohen, On Knowing What to Say: Planning Speech Acts - PhilPapers
The goal of this thesis is to model some of the cognitive structures and processes involve d in how people decide what to say in purposeful conversation. The main concern is ...
philpapers.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The thesis is linked here for the curious! Full title: "On Knowing What to Say: Planning Speech Acts"
Really nicely lays out that a "computer conversant" should be capable of planning speech acts, recognizing such plans, helping them, & modeling others.
philpapers.org/rec/COHOKW-2
Really nicely lays out that a "computer conversant" should be capable of planning speech acts, recognizing such plans, helping them, & modeling others.
philpapers.org/rec/COHOKW-2
now every paper that i write can come with personal funny quotes
New #QuartoPub extension! Have you ever wanted to include epigraphs in your documents without needing to adjust CSS or LaTeX or Typst settings? Now you can the fancy epigraph shortcode: github.com/andrewheiss/...
It works with HTML and PDF only—in other formats it appears as a regular blockquote
It works with HTML and PDF only—in other formats it appears as a regular blockquote
April 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
now every paper that i write can come with personal funny quotes
Defended my Qualifying Paper! I am finally ABD! I talked about the timing of the agreement in production using early verb planning, agreement attraction, and picture description paradigms! Here's the slides, I am happy to talk to anyone more about it! utkuturk.com/files/slides/qpTurk.pdf
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April 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Defended my Qualifying Paper! I am finally ABD! I talked about the timing of the agreement in production using early verb planning, agreement attraction, and picture description paradigms! Here's the slides, I am happy to talk to anyone more about it! utkuturk.com/files/slides/qpTurk.pdf
#HSP2025 is next week! Will present my work about attraction in Turkish (again 😅) as a plenary talk. Did you know that the Formal Addressee, not the subject of the sentence, can control the agreement in Turkish? Come listen to me if you are curious about what would happen in attraction scenarios.
March 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
#HSP2025 is next week! Will present my work about attraction in Turkish (again 😅) as a plenary talk. Did you know that the Formal Addressee, not the subject of the sentence, can control the agreement in Turkish? Come listen to me if you are curious about what would happen in attraction scenarios.