Canan Ipek

Ph.D Student

Department of Linguistics

University of Southern California

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Campus:          University of Southern California

Department of Linguistics

                        Grace Ford Salvatori 301

                        Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693           

                        (213) 740 2986

                        ipek@usc.edu

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Ph.D., in Linguistics, ongoing

 

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

M.A., Linguistics, December 2008.

 

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Ph.D. student, Cognitive Sciences (2004-2007)

Major: Linguistics,

Minor: Philosophy

 

Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

M.A., Linguistics, June 2003

 

Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.A., Language Teaching, June 2000

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Teaching Assistant

á      Linguistics, LING 110Lg: In a Word, Fall 2008

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hagit Borer

 

á      Linguistics, LING 110Lg: In a Word, Fall 2009

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hagit Borer

 

á      Linguistics, LING 110Lg: In a Word, Spring 2010

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jean-Roger Vergnaud

 

á      Linguistics, LING 110Lg: In a Word, Fall 2010

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elena Guerzoni

 

á      Linguistics, LING 110Lg: In a Word, Spring 2011

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elena Guerzoni

 

á      Linguistics, LING 275Lg: In a Word, Fall 2011

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Elaine Anderson and Sandy Disner

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

 

á      Focus Intonation

á      Production and Perception of Focus  

á      Articulatory Phonology

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Ipek, C. (2011). ÒAcoustic Correlates of Narrow Focus in Turkish.Ó 162th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California.

 

Ipek, C. and Kaiser, E (2011). ÒProduction and Perception of Focus in Turkish: Prosodic and Syntactic Cues.Ó Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2, Montreal, Canada.

 

Ipek, C. (2011) ÒPhonetic Realization of Focus with no On-Focus Pitch Range Expansion in TurkishÓ, International Congress of  Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.

 

Ipek, C. (2010). ÒOn the Relation between Overlap and ReleaseÓ 160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico.

 

Ipek, C (2006). ÒTurkish ResultativesAnkara Linguistic Circle, Middle East Techinal University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Ipek, C. (2011) ÒPhonetic Realization of Focus with no On-Focus Pitch Range Expansion in TurkishÓ, In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

 

Simpson A., Hwang H., and Ipek C.. (2008). ÒThe Comparative Syntax of Double Object Constructions in Japanese, Korean, and Turkish.Ó Fifth Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics (WAFL5).

 

Ipek, C. (2005). ÒSome Preliminary Remarks on the Adjunction Site of the Turkish Focus Particle yalnõzca in Sentence Initial Positions,Ó Dilbilim ve Uygulamalarõ,  Hacettepe †niversitesi Yayõnlarõ, Ankara, Turkey.

 

IN PROGRESS

 

Sentential stress and focus intonation in Turkish

 

HONORS and AWARDS

 

USC General Education Teaching Assistant Award 2011-2012

 

USC The University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award   2011-2012

 

USC Graduate Merit Fellowship

á      2007-2008

á      Spring 2009

 

SERVICE WORK

 

Editor

WCCFL Proceedings, University of Southern California, 2010.

 

Student Volunteer

Parallel Domains, A workshop in honor of the work of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, 2011.

 

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE

 

Python, C++, Prolog, HTML

 

STATISTICS TOOLS

 

R, SPSS

 

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

 

á      Turkish (native)

á      English (fluent)

 

NON-ACADEMIC

 

á      Turkish annotator

o   Appen Butler Hill (since November 2011)

 

á      Turkish Instructor

o   Language Door, Los Angeles (January 2011-August 2011)

 

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