Yılmaz Köylü
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yılmaz Köylü |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yılmaz |
| FAMILY NAME | Köylü |
| SIGNATURE | KÖYLÜ Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2447-4211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin
The current research is an extension and partial replication of Köylü (2018. Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L2 English. Intercultural Pragmatics 15(3). 373–408.) and it investigates the development of conversational implicatures in third language (L3) Mandarin. More specifically, this study explores whether learners with a first language (L1) Cantonese and second language (L2) English background are able to comprehend implied mea…
Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English
Kirkpatrick and Lixun (2021) maintain that two significant morphosyntactic processes have been at play in early Englishes. These are simplification and regularization. Simplification refers to the relatively simplified inflectional morphology in English today. Kirkpatrick and Lixun (2021) provide an example for the word stan (i.e., stone in Old English) that showed great differences in the singular and plural form in nominative, accusative, genit…
A Feature‐based Account of Genericity and Kind Reference
Genericity encompasses two distinct phenomena. The first one is reference to a kind, whereby a predicate describes a property directly of a kind as in Dinosaurs are extinct . The second one is a characterizing or a generic sentence that expresses generalizations as in Cats meow . A feature of generic sentences is that they tolerate exceptions. We accept sentences such as Mosquitos carry the West Nile virus to be true although the predicated prope…
Acquisition of kind-reference by Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish L2 learners of English
This study examines the acquisition of kind-referring expressions such as The dodo is extinct . The objective is to investigate whether second language (L2) learners’ acquisition of nominal number marking and articles expressing kind-reference in English is affected by their first language (L1), their L2 proficiency in English, or the syntactic position of the kind-referring noun phrase (NP). L2 learners of English with Arabic, Chinese, and Turki…
Teaching & learning guide for
This article reviews the NP versus DP debate in syntactic theory. It scrutinizes the arguments according to which a language would be assigned an NP or a DP structure. The article also provides an overview of the proper characterization, function and features of determiners, followed a by a discussion of the typological endeavour of Bošković, according to whom the NP or the DP status of the nominal domain in any language can be gleaned from the w…
An overview of the NP versus DP debate
This article provides an overview of what is known as the noun phrase (NP) versus determiner phrase (DP) debate. I first revisit the arguments by which a language would be assigned an NP or rather a DP structure, followed by the proper characterisation, function and features of determiners. I then summarise the typological endeavour of Bošković, surveying some of the syntactic and semantic correlates of the NP versus DP parameter and applying fou…
Abstract knowledge of emphatic reduplication in Turkish
This study investigated whether native speakers of Turkish have abstract knowledge regarding the principles guiding the selection of appropriate reduplicative forms in emphatic reduplication in Turkish. 14 native speakers of Turkish completed the study. The participants were asked to reduplicate 48 non-words in 4 experimental conditions where the number of segments and the phonological features of the word forms were manipulated. The 4 experiment…
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L2 English
This study investigated the development of the ability to interpret conversational implicatures in English as an L2. The study followed a cross-sectional design and used a methodologically innovative audio-visual interpretation task with an oral production component. By orally reporting their interpretations, participants demonstrated comprehension of conversational implicatures viewed in a video, rather than employing a predetermined response ap…
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Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L2 English
This study investigated the development of the ability to interpret conversational implicatures in English as an L2. The study followed a cross-sectional design and used a methodologically innovative audio-visual interpretation task with an oral production component. By orally reporting their interpretations, participants demonstrated comprehension of conversational implicatures viewed in a video, rather than employing a predetermined response ap…
Abstract knowledge of emphatic reduplication in Turkish
This study investigated whether native speakers of Turkish have abstract knowledge regarding the principles guiding the selection of appropriate reduplicative forms in emphatic reduplication in Turkish. 14 native speakers of Turkish completed the study. The participants were asked to reduplicate 48 non-words in 4 experimental conditions where the number of segments and the phonological features of the word forms were manipulated. The 4 experiment…
Teaching & learning guide for
This article reviews the NP versus DP debate in syntactic theory. It scrutinizes the arguments according to which a language would be assigned an NP or a DP structure. The article also provides an overview of the proper characterization, function and features of determiners, followed a by a discussion of the typological endeavour of Bošković, according to whom the NP or the DP status of the nominal domain in any language can be gleaned from the w…
An overview of the NP versus DP debate
This article provides an overview of what is known as the noun phrase (NP) versus determiner phrase (DP) debate. I first revisit the arguments by which a language would be assigned an NP or rather a DP structure, followed by the proper characterisation, function and features of determiners. I then summarise the typological endeavour of Bošković, surveying some of the syntactic and semantic correlates of the NP versus DP parameter and applying fou…
A Feature‐based Account of Genericity and Kind Reference
Genericity encompasses two distinct phenomena. The first one is reference to a kind, whereby a predicate describes a property directly of a kind as in Dinosaurs are extinct . The second one is a characterizing or a generic sentence that expresses generalizations as in Cats meow . A feature of generic sentences is that they tolerate exceptions. We accept sentences such as Mosquitos carry the West Nile virus to be true although the predicated prope…
Acquisition of kind-reference by Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish L2 learners of English
This study examines the acquisition of kind-referring expressions such as The dodo is extinct . The objective is to investigate whether second language (L2) learners’ acquisition of nominal number marking and articles expressing kind-reference in English is affected by their first language (L1), their L2 proficiency in English, or the syntactic position of the kind-referring noun phrase (NP). L2 learners of English with Arabic, Chinese, and Turki…
Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English
Kirkpatrick and Lixun (2021) maintain that two significant morphosyntactic processes have been at play in early Englishes. These are simplification and regularization. Simplification refers to the relatively simplified inflectional morphology in English today. Kirkpatrick and Lixun (2021) provide an example for the word stan (i.e., stone in Old English) that showed great differences in the singular and plural form in nominative, accusative, genit…
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin
The current research is an extension and partial replication of Köylü (2018. Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L2 English. Intercultural Pragmatics 15(3). 373–408.) and it investigates the development of conversational implicatures in third language (L3) Mandarin. More specifically, this study explores whether learners with a first language (L1) Cantonese and second language (L2) English background are able to comprehend implied mea…
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Turkish (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Comprehension (2 works)