EDUCATION ŞEYDA ÖZÇALIŞKAN Georgia State University PO Box 5010 Atlanta, GA 30302-5010 Office: (404) 413 6282 seyda@gsu.edu http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwpsy/ozcaliskan.html 2002 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 1996 M.A. Developmental Psychology, Clark University, Worcester 1994 M.A. Educational Psychology, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul 1992 B.A. Business, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2008-present Assistant Professor, Georgia State University 2003-2008 Research Associate, University of Chicago 2002-2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Chicago GRANTS 2010-2011 Does gesture predict sex differences in emerging language abilities? (PI) Funding agency: Research on Challenges in Acquiring Language and Literacy Seed Grant Program ($47,000) 2010-2011 Gesture as predictor of language development in children with autism (PI) Funding agency: GSU Faculty Mentored Research Grant ($11,000) 2008-2011 Patterns of gesture and speech use by congenitally blind speakers in two cultures (PI) Funding agency: March of Dimes Foundation ($179,201) Collaborator: Susan Goldin-Meadow 2009-2010 Role of gesture in second language production (PI) Funding agency: GSU Research Initiation Grant ($10,000) 2008-2009 Gesture as a window onto atypical language development (PI) Funding agency: GSU Language and Literacy Seed Grant Program ($33,850) Collaborators: Lauren Adamson, Roger Bakeman
FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS 2002 Chancellor s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Institute of Human Development Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley 2001 University Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Mellon Travel Grant for Field Research, University of California, Berkeley Institute of Human Development Graduate Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley 2000 Humanities Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley Mellon Travel Grant for Field Research, University of California, Berkeley 1999 University Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid-of Research, University of California, Berkeley Mellon Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley The Berkeley Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society Honorary Award 1998 University Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Bernard Osher International Scholarship, International House, Berkeley 1997 Humanities Social Science Grant, University of California, Berkeley Mellon Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley RESEARCH INTERESTS Typical and atypical language development Relation between language and cognition Role of gesture in language and cognitive development Role of verbal and gestural input in language and cognitive development Universal and language-specific aspects of early semantic and conceptual development Spatial semantics and cross-linguistic variation in the expression of spatial motion Cross-linguistic variation in metaphor structure and development of metaphorical ability PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed journals Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (in press). Sex differences in language first appear in gesture. Developmental Science. Özçalışkan, Ş.; Goldin-Meadow, S.; Gentner, D. & Mylander, C. (2009). Does language about similarity foster similarity comparisons in children? Cognition, 112 (2), 217-228. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009). When gesture-speech combinations do and do not index linguistic change. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28 (24), 190-217. Rowe, M.; Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Early gesture production and comprehension provide a helping hand for later vocabulary skills. First Language, 28 (2), 185-203. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2007). Metaphors we move by : Children s developing understanding of metaphorical motion in typologically distinct languages. Metaphor and Symbol, 22 (2), 147-168. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2005). On learning to draw the distinction between physical and metaphorical motion: Is metaphor an early emerging cognitive and linguistic capacity? Journal of Child Language, 32 (2), 291-318. Özçalışkan/CV 2
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2005). Metaphor meets typology: Ways of moving metaphorically in English and Turkish. Cognitive Linguistics, 16 (1), 207-246. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Gesture is at the cutting edge of early language development. Cognition, 96 (3), B101-B113. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Do parents lead their children by the hand? Journal of Child Language, 32 (3), 481-505. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2004). Encoding the manner, path and ground components of a metaphorical motion event. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2, 73-102. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2004). Time can t fly, but a bird can : Learning how to think and talk about time as spatial motion in English and Turkish. European Journal of the English Language, 8(3), 309-336. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Metaphorical motion in crosslinguistic perspective. A comparison of English and Turkish. Metaphor and Symbol, 18 (3), 189-228. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). In a caravanserai with two doors, I am walking day and night : Metaphors of death and life in Turkish. Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (4), 281-320. Invited book chapters Özçalışkan, Ş. (in press). Acquisition of metaphor. In Patrick Hogan (Ed.), Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press. Özçalışkan, Ş.; Goldin-Meadow, S. (in press). Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months? In Gale Stam & Mika Ishino (Eds.), Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture. Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2009). Learning to talk about spatial motion in language-specific ways. In Jiansheng Guo, Elena Lieven, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Nancy Budwig, Kei Nakamura & Şeyda Özçalışkan (Eds.), Cross-linguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin (pp. 263-276). New York: Psychology Press. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). X is like Y : The emergence of similarity mappings in children s early speech and gesture. In Gitte Kristianssen, Michael Achard, Rene Dirven & Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (Eds.), Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations and fields of application (pp. 229-262). Mouton de Gruyter. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). Role of gesture in children s early constructions. In Eve Clark & Barbara Kelly (Eds.), Constructions in acquisition (pp. 31-58). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Peer-reviewed conference proceedings Rowe, M.; Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). The added value of gesture in predicting vocabulary growth. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30 th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 501-512). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2004). When mothers do not lead their children by the hand. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla & C. E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28 th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 424-435). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Özçalışkan/CV 3
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Children s developing understanding of metaphors about the mind. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, F. Conlin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27 th Boston University Conference on Language Development (603-614). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Time slips, life flows, death arrives : Metaphorical construal of the human life cycle in Turkish. In A. S. Özsoy, M. Nakipoglu-Demiralp, E. Erguvanlı-Taylan, & A. Aksu-Koç (Eds.), Studies in Turkish Linguistics (pp. 259-270). Istanbul: Bogazici University Press. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2003). Codability effects on the expression of manner of motion in English and Turkish. In A. S. Özsoy, M. Nakipoglu-Demiralp, E. Erguvanlı-Taylan & A. Aksu-Koç (Eds.), Studies in Turkish Linguistics (pp. 259-270). Istanbul: Bogaziçi University Press. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2000). Expression of manner of movement in monolingual and bilingual adult narratives: Turkish vs. English. In A. Göksel & C. Kerslake (Eds.), Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages (pp. 253-262). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2000). Climb up vs. ascend climbing : Lexicalization choices in expressing motion events with manner and path components. In S. Catherine-Howell; S. A. Fish & K. Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24 th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 558-570). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Özyürek, A. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2000). How children learn to conflate manner and path in their speech and gestures. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 30 th Stanford Child Language Research Forum, CSLI Publications (pp. 77-85). Palo Alto, California. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (1999). Learning how to search for the frog : Expression of manner of motion in English, Spanish and Turkish. In A. Greenhill, H. Littlefield & C. Tano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23 rd Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 541-552). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Publications in Turkish peer-reviewed journals Özçalışkan, Ş. (1996). Analysis of a Turkish wondertale within Vladimir Propp s morphological framework. Linguistic Research [Dilbilim Araştırmaları] (pp.165-172). Ankara: Hitit Yayınevi. Özçalışkan, Ş. (1994). Use of profanity by Turkish males and females. Linguistic Research [Dilbilim Araştırmaları] (pp. 274-287). Ankara: Hitit Yayınevi. Manuscripts under review & in preparation Özçalışkan, Ş.; Levine, S. C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (under revision). Gesturing with an injured brain: How gesture helps children with early brain injury learn linguistic constructions. Özçalışkan, Ş. (under revision). Ways of crossing a spatial boundary in English and Turkish. Özçalışkan, Ş.; Gentner, D. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (in preparation). Do iconic gestures pave the way for children s early verbs? Özçalışkan, Ş.; Goldin-Meadow, S. & Gentner, D. (in preparation). Do parents provide a helping hand for children s early similarity comparisons? Özçalışkan, Ş.; Goldin-Meadow, S. & Gentner, D. (in preparation). Same or different: When do children begin to compare objects that are dissimilar? Özçalışkan/CV 4
Özçalışkan, Ş. (in preparation). Love, desire, relationship and marriage : Metaphorical construal of romantic life in Turkish. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Invited colloquia Boston University,, January 2007. University of Chicago,, January 2007. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics, February 2007. University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, February 2007. Wesleyan University,, February 2007. University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development, March 2007. University of Chicago, Department of Neurology, May 2007. University of Miami,, January 2008. University of Tennessee,, January 2008. University of California, Santa Cruz,, January 2008. University of Texas, San Antonio,, February 2008. Georgia State University,, February 2008. University of Marburg, Germany,, January 2009. Georgia State University, Department of Applied Linguistics, April 2009. Emory University,, Language and Space Group, April 2009. University of Maryland,, Events in Mind and Language Group, May 2009. Conference presentations Özçalışkan, Ş.; Gentner, D. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2010). Do iconic gestures pave the way for children s early verbs? 4 th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. Özçalışkan, Ş.; Goldin-Meadow, S.; Gentner, D. & Mylander, C. (2010). Does language about similarity foster children s similarity comparisons? 4 th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Sex differences in language first appear in gesture. 31 th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Sex differences in language first appear in gesture. 11 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Edinburgh, Scotland. Trofatter, C.; Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Gesturing helps speakers produce more complex speech. Midwestern Psychological Association 77 th Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Sex differences in language first appear in gesture. Association for Psychological Science 20 th Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. Özçalışkan, Ş.; Levine, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). Learning to convey linguistic constructions in gesture and speech. A comparison of children with and without focal brain injury. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Evanston, IL. Özçalışkan, Ş.; Mylander, C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). Expressing similarity by hand: Early communication in hearing speakers and deaf homesigners. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Evanston, IL. Özçalışkan/CV 5
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). X is like Y : The emergence of similarity comparisons in children s early speech and gesture. Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). When the hand says more than the mouth: Role of gesture in children s early constructions. 31 st Berkeley Linguistic Society Conference. Berkeley, CA. Rowe, M.; Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). The added value of gesture in predicting vocabulary growth. 29 th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2005). The relation between children s early iconic gestures and early verb lexicon. 10 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Berlin, Germany. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Early gesture-speech combinations as an index of linguistic change. 10 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Berlin, Germany. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2004). Gesture is at the cutting edge of early language development. 28 th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2004). The many ways of crossing a boundary in English and Turkish. 13 th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Izmir, Turkey. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Time slips, life flows, death arrives : Universals and particulars in the metaphorical extensions of spatial motion. 39 th Chicago Linguistic Society Conference. Chicago, IL. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Doors, fences and thresholds: The (im)possibilities of crossing a boundary in English and Turkish. 8 th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Logrono, Spain. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Time can t fly, but a bird can : Learning to draw the distinction between physical and metaphorical motion. 8 th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Logrono, Spain. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003). When mothers do not lead their children by the hand. 27 th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2002). When an idea runs through your mind, is it still inside your mind? : A crosslinguistic look at young children s understanding of metaphors about the mind. 26 th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2002). Children developing understanding of metaphorical motion events in English and Turkish. 9 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Madison, WI. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2002). On learning to think and talk metaphorically about the mind. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, Houston, TX. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2002). Children s understanding of motion event metaphors in Turkish. 11 th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Famagusta, Cyprus. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2002). Is metaphor an early emerging cognitive and linguistic capacity? 31 st Stanford Child Language Research Forum. Palo Alto, California. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2002). Run into vs. enter rapidly : How children learn to encode manner of motion. 11 th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Famagusta, Cyprus. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2001). Metaphor meets typology: Ways of moving metaphorically in English and Turkish. 7 th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Santa Barbara, CA. Özçalışkan/CV 6
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2001). Interplay between semantic codability and alternative lexical means in children s motion descriptions. 37 th Chicago Linguistic Society Conference. Chicago, IL. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2000). Contrastive effect of narrative perspective vs. typological constraints in encoding manner of motion. 7 th International Pragmatics Conference. Budapest, Hungary. Özçalışkan, Ş. (2000). In a caravanserai with two doors, I am walking day and night : Metaphors of death and life in Turkish. 10 th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Istanbul, Turkey. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2000). Typological analysis of motion events in Turkish & English. 10 th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Istanbul, Turkey. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (1999). Climb up vs. ascend climbing : Lexicalization choices in expressing motion events with manner and path components. 24 th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (1999). How children encode motion events in two types of languages. 8 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. San Sebastian, Spain. Özyürek, A. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (1999). How children learn to conflate manner and path in their speech and gestures. 30 th Stanford Child Language Research Forum. Palo Alto, California. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (1998). Expression of manner of movement in monolingual and bilingual adult narratives. 9 th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Oxford, England. Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (1998). Expression of manner of motion in English, Spanish, and Turkish. 23 rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Books 2009 Co-editor. Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. NY: Psychology Press. (With Elena Lieven, Jianseng Guo, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Nancy Budwig & Kei Nakamura) Conference organization 2008 Co-organizer. The contribution of gesture to language learning at different linguistic milestones. 11 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland (With Jana Iverson) 2005 Co-organizer. Role of gesture in language development. 10 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany (With Jana Iverson & Kristine de López) 2005 Co-organizer. From non-linguistic to linguistic representations: Children s encoding of motion at the perceptual, gestural, and linguistic levels. 10 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany. (With Aslı Özyürek) 2003 Co-organizer. Typological differences in encoding motion events. 7 th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, La Rioja, Spain. (With Iraide Ibarretxe) Özçalışkan/CV 7
Professional Affiliations APS (American Psychological Society) IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language) ICLA (International Cognitive Linguistics Association) ISGS (International Society for Gesture Studies) SRCD (Society for Research in Child Development) Professional Service Reviewer for journals and books: Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press Cognition Cognitive Development Cognitive Linguistics Developmental Psychology Developmental Science Folia Linguistica Gesture Human Development Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Journal of Child Language Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Language and Cognitive Processes Language Learning and Development Language and Linguistics Compass Metaphor and Symbol Reviewer for grants: National Science Foundation Career Proposals Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grants Program Reviewer for conference abstracts: Boston University Conference on Language Development Abstracts Cognitive Science Society Conference Abstracts Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting Conference Abstracts Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference Abstracts International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Abstracts Multimodality of Communication in Children: Gestures, Emotions, Language and Cognition Conference Abstracts Courses Taught Language and Cognitive Development Developmental Psychology Developmental Seminar Özçalışkan/CV 8
REFEREES Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow Professor Dan I. Slobin University of Chicago University of California, Berkeley 5848 South University Avenue 3210 Tolman Hall #1650 Chicago, IL 60637 Berkeley, CA 94720-1670 sgm@uchicago.edu slobin@berkeley.edu (773) 702-2585 (510) 642-7090 Professor Alison Gopnik Professor Susan C. Levine University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago 3210 Tolman Hall #1650 5848 South University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720-1670 Chicago, IL 60637 gopnik@berkeley.edu s-levine@uchicago.edu (510) 642-2752 (773) 702-8844 Professor Dedre Gentner Northwestern University 2029 Sheridan Road Evanston, Chicago, IL 60208 gentner@northwestern.edu (847) 467-2035 Özçalışkan/CV 9