Hi there, welcome to my personal website! My name is Onur Keleş [oˈnur̥ ˈk̟ʰɛleʃ]. I am a second-year M.A. student in the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. I graduated from the Department of Foreign Language Education in July 2021. My main research interests include sign language linguistics, (atypical) language development, sentential processing, and computational linguistics. I am currently employed as Research/Teaching Assistant in the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University.

Research

I am affiliated with the Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory led by Dr. Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz. In the lab, I am working on a project that examines how individuals on the autism spectrum process sentences and integrate real world knowledge. I am also volunteering for another project that investigates the processing of negative polarity items (NPIs) in Turkish. Previously I worked as undergraduate research assistant in the Sign Language Lab located at the Department of Linguistics. Under the supervision of Dr. Kadir Gökgöz, I led two research projects where I explored the cognitive and linguistic effects of linguistic deprivation on the narrative abilities and verbal fluency of deaf individuals who use Turkish Sign Language. My other academic interests cover cognitive modeling and computational analyses of natural languages.