EDUCATION

PhD in Linguistics (to be defended on May 12th, 2025), Radboud University

MSc in Linguistics (2018), University of Alberta

BA in Foreign Language Education (2016), Middle East Technical University
with a minor in Psychology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

#bilingualism #language comprehension #language production #eye-tracking

My PhD dissertation investigated what makes bilingual children and adults better predictors in online language comprehension. Using eye-tracking in visual world paradigm and a multitude of background tasks, I focused specifically on the role of language experience and proficiency in predictive language processing under the supervision of Dr. Susanne Brouwer, Dr. Sharon Unsworth, and Professor Falk Huettig.

My Master's project focused on evidentiality in Turkish and examined the online language processing skills of Turkish-English bilinguals living in Canada.

Currently I am involved in another research project on pronoun resolution in bilingual children together with Dr. Chantal Van Dijk.

PUBLICATIONS

If you cannot access any of my publications, feel free to contact me for a copy.

  • Child heritage speakers' reading skills and heritage language exposure support morphosyntactic prediction in spoken language

    Karaca, F., Brouwer, S., Unsworth, S., & Huettig, F. (2025)

    In Bilingualism, Language & Cognition

  • Morphosyntactic predictive processing in adult heritage speakers: effects of cue availability and spoken and written language experience

    Karaca, F., Brouwer, S., Unsworth, S., & Huettig, F. (2023)

    In Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience

  • Grammatical development in both languages of bilingual Turkish-Dutch children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

    Blom, E., Boerma, T., Karaca, F., de Jong, J., & Küntay, A. (2022)

    In Frontiers in Communication

  • Prediction in bilingual children: the missing piece of the puzzle

    Karaca, F., Brouwer, S., Unsworth, S., & Huettig, F. (2021)

    In E. Kaan, & T. Grüter (Eds.) Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning

  • Morphological processing is gradient not discrete in L1 and L2 English masked priming

    Loo, K., Toth, A., Karaca, F., & Jarvikivi, J. (2021)

    In The Mental Lexicon

  • Effects of affective ratings and individual differences in English morphological processing

    Loo, K., Toth, A., Karaca, F., & Jarvikivi, J. (2019)

    In CogSci Proceedings

Have a look at my CV to see what I have been up to (in more detail). And you can always contact me for questions or possible collaborations.