Gelişim

Profesör

Adjunct

Education:

• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1978 MA
• University of California, Berkeley, 1976 BA
• Middle East Technical University, 1971

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Psychology
• Life Span Developmental Psychology I & II
• Language Acquisition
• Psycholinguistics
• Advanced Developmental Psychology
• Theories in Psychology I & II
• Modern Points of View in Psychology
• Language and Culture

Research Interests:

• Language acquisition and cognitive development (acquisition of Turkish, theory of mind)
• Narrative abilities in children and adults
• Literacy development
• Social, educational, and contextual influences on language acquisition

Recent Publications:

Aksu-Koç, A. & Nicolopoulou, A. (2015) Character Reference in Young Children's Narratives: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of English, Greek, and Turkish. Lingua 155, 62-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.04.006 0024-3841/© 2014 Elsevier B.V.

Arslan, S., Aksu-Koç, A., Maviş, İ., & Bastiaanse, R. (2014). Finite verb inflections for evidential categories and source identification in Turkish agrammatic Broca’s aphasia. Journal of Pragmatics, 7 0 (2014) 165—181. doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.07.002 0378-2166/© 2014 Elsevier B.V.

Tribushinina, E., van den Bergh, H., Kilani-Schoch, M., Aksu-Koç, A., Dabašinskiene, I., Hrzica, G., Korecky-Kröll, K., Noccetti, S. & Dressler, W. (2013). The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input. First Language, 33 (6), 594-616.

Xanthos, A., Laaha, S., Gillis, S. Stephany, U., Aksu-Koç, A., Christofidou, A., Gagarina, N., Hrzica, G. Ketrez, F. N., Kilani-Schoch, M., Korecky-Kröll , K., Kovačević, M., Laalo, K., Palmović, M., Pfeiler, B., Voeikova, M. D., & Dressler, W. U. (2011). On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection. First Language. 31(4) 461–479.

Bekman, S., Aksu-Koç, A., & Taylan, E. E. (2011). Effectiveness of an intervention program for six year olds: A summer-school model. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, Vol. 19 (409-431).

Aksu-Koç, A. (2010). Normal language development in Turkish. In S. Topbaş & M. Yavaş (Eds.), Communication Disorders in Turkish in monolingual and multilingual settings (pp. 65-104). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Aksu-Koç, A., Balaban, H. Ö. & Alp, İ. E. (2009). Evidentials and source knowledge in Turkish. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 125, 13-28.

Ketrez, F. N., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2009). Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number. U. Stephany & M. Voeykova (Eds.) Development of Noun Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Aksu-Koç, A. (2009). Evidentiality: An interface between linguistic and conceptual development. J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig & Ş. Özçalışkan (Eds.) Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bekman, S., & Aksu-Koç, A. 2009. (eds.) Perspectives on Culture, Family and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Aksu-Koç, A. (2005). Role of the home-context in the relations between narrative abilities and literacy practices. D. Ravid & H. Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Eds.), Perspectives on language and language development, (259-278). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Aksu-Koç, Ayhan. 1988. The acquisition of aspect and modality: The case of past reference in Turkish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2006 2nd ed.)