Münir Özturhan

Münir is a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Kansas. His main research interests are psycholinguistics and second language acquisition/processing.

Before joining the Ph.D. program at KU, he got his BA and MA from the Foreign Language Education Department at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He worked with Dr. Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz during his MA at Boğaziçi University and earned his master’s degree upon completion of his thesis titled “Processing reflexives in the second language: Evidence from eye-tracking” in 2018.

He is currently working with Dr. Alison Gabriele and Dr. Robert Fiorentino at KU on whether ​​second language (L2) learners of Turkish are sensitive to how the animacy of the subject in Turkish impacts subject-verb agreement and how L2 proficiency modulates the processing of such dependencies in Turkish. He is also part of the Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory at Boğaziçi University, where they explore how native speakers and L2 learners of Turkish process negative polarity items in complex sentences.