• Public awareness of childhood language impairment in Turkey: A descriptive study 

  Kement, Nurcan; Topbaş, Saime Seyhun; Bulut, Talat (Turkiye Klinikleri, 2022)

  Objective: Childhood language impairment (CLI), also known as developmental language disorder, adversely affects children’s expressive and/or receptive language development. Although relatively significant action has been ...

• Neural correlates of morphological processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis 

  Bulut, Talat (Masson SpA, 2022)

  Background: Morphemes are the smallest building blocks of language that convey meaning or function. A controversial issue in psycho- and neurolinguistics is whether morphologically complex words consisting of multiple ...

• A comparison of peer relations between preschool children who stutter and their fluent peers 

  Kayhan Aktürk, Şükriye; Özdemir, Ramazan Sertan (AVES, 2021)

  Objective: This study aimed to compare the peer relations of preschool children who stutter and their fluent peers. Materials and Methods: The sample comprised 90 children between 5 and 6 years of age, with (n = 45) and ...

• The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems 

  Cwiek, Aleksandra; Fuchs, Susanne; Draxler, Christoph; Asu, Eva Liina; Dediu, Dan; Hiovain, Katri; Kawahara, Shigeto; Koutalidis, Sofia; Krifka, Manfred; Lippus, Partel; Lupyan, Gary; Oh, Grace E.; Paul, Jing; Petrone, Caterina; Ridouane, Rachid; Reiter, Sabine; Schumchen, Nathalie; Szalontai, Adam; Ünal-Logacev, Özlem; Zeller, Jochen; Perlman, Marcus; Winter, Bodo (Royal Society, 2022)

  The bouba/kiki effect-the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki with a spiky shape-is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual properties with potentially deep implications for ...

• Visual food cue processing in children with prader-willi syndrome 

  Key, Alexandra P.; Jones, Dorita; Zengin Bolatkale, Hatun; Roof, Elizabeth; Hunt-Hawkins, Hailee (Elsevier Inc., 2021)

  Hyperphagia and the associated interest in food is a characteristic feature of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) that emerges during childhood and remains a life-long concern. This study examined neural responses reflecting food ...

• Efficacy of multiple oppositions therapy in children with speech sound disorder 

  Uz Hasırcı, Sema; Ünal Logacev, Özlem (Anadolu University, 2021)

  Aim: Speech sound disorders (SSD) decrease intelligibility and increase the possibility of experiencing various communication problems. Considering the academic and psychological problems associated with speech sound ...

• Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures 

  Ćwiek, Aleksandra; Fuchs, Susanne; Draxler, Christoph; Asu, Eva Liina; Dediu, Dan; Hiovain, Katri; Kawahara, Shigeto; Koutalidis, Sofia; Krifka, Manfred; Lippus, Pärtel; Lupyan, Gary; Oh, Grace E.; Paul, Jing; Petrone, Caterina; Ridouane, Rachid; Reiter, Sabine; Schümchen, Nathalie; Szalontai, Ádám; Ünal Logacev, Özlem; Zeller, Jochen; Winter, Bodo; Perlman, Marcus (Nature Research, 2021)

  Linguistic communication requires speakers to mutually agree on the meanings of words, but how does such a system first get off the ground? One solution is to rely on iconic gestures: visual signs whose form directly ...

• How aware is the public of the existence, characteristics and causes of language impairment in childhood and where have they heard about it? A European survey 

  Thordardottir, Elin; Topbaş, Seyhun (Elsevier Science Inc, 2021)

  Public awareness of language impairment in childhood (Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)) has been identified as an important determiner of research and clinical service delivery, yet studies directly assessing public ...

• Türkçe fonolojik farkındalık testi: Geliştirilmesi, geçerlilik ve güvenirlilik çalışması 

  Kazanoğlu, Deniz; Doğan, Murat; Ünal Logacev, Özlem (Türkiye Klinikleri, 2020)

  Amaç: 4;0-8;11 yaş aralığındaki tipik gelişim gösteren çocukların fonolojik farkındalık becerilerini ölçen geçerli ve güvenilir bir test geliştirmektir. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Türkçe Fonolojik Farkındalık Testi (FFT), dört ...

• A preliminary study of normative speech rate values of Turkish speaking adults 

  Cangi, Mehmet Emrah; Işıldar, Ayşe; Tekin, Aleyna; Saraç, Ayşe Buse (Dergipark Akad, 2020)

  Objectives: One of the main prosodic components of language is the rate. Speaking and articulation rates are two different measurements that reflect various aspects of each other. This study mainly aimed to present preliminary ...

• The contribution of statistical learning to language and literacy acquisition 

  Wu, Denise Hsien; Bulut, Talat (Academic Press Inc., 2020)

  Acquisition and processing of written and spoken language is an impressive cognitive accomplishment considering the complexity of the tasks. While only humans seem to have evolved to the fullest extent the capacity that ...

• Temperamental characteristics of children who stutter and childrenwho recovered stuttering spontaneously 

  Aydın Uysal, Ayşe; Özdemir, Ramazan Sertan (2019)

  Objective: The aim of this study is to compare temperamental differences between children who stutter (CWS), children who recovered stuttering spontaneously (CWRSS) and their age and sex matched children with typical ...

• Nasometric evaluation of resonance disorders: A norm study In Turkish 

  Ünal Logacev, Özlem; Kummer, Ann W.; Çetin, Cengiz; Topbaş, Seyhun (Elsevier Ireland Ltd., 2020)

  Objective: The aim of this study was to adapt the Simplified Nasometric Assessment Procedures-Revised (SNAP-R) [1] to Turkish, gather norms from Turkish speakers, and test the sensitivity and specificity of the adapted ...

• Eye tracking as an objective measure of hyperphagia in children with Prader-Willi syndrome 

  Key, Alexandra P.; Zengin-Bolatkale, Hatun; Dimitropoulos, Anastasia; Doernberg, Ellen (Wiley, 2020)

  This study examined sensitivity of eye tracking measures to hyperphagia severity in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). Gaze data were collected in 57 children with PWS, age 3-11 years, and 47 typically developing peers at two ...

• The social and cultural context of intervention for children with developmental language disorder 

  Thordardottir, Elin; Topbaş, Seyhun (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  The activity of working group 3 of COST Action IS1406 was concerned with whether and how social and cultural factors impact children’s access to language services, whether the services offered fit their needs and are ...

• Turkey 

  Topbaş, Seyhun; Bulut, Talat; Günhan, Nazmiye Evra (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  This book is about the management of children and young people with developmental language disorders (DLD). DLD is a relatively common condition affecting children and young people. The latest figures suggest that 9 per ...

• Phonetics and phonology of soft 'g' in Turkish 

  Ünal Logacev, Özlem; Zygis, Marzena; Fuchs, Susanne (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  The present study aims to approach soft 'g', a highly disputable sound in Turkish phonetics and phonology, from a multidimensional perspective by (i) analysing its historical development, (ii) investigating its distribution ...

• Is there a processing preference for object relative clauses in chinese? Evidence from erps 

  Bulut, Talat; Cheng, Shih-Kuen; Xu, Kun-Yu; Hung, Daisy L.; Wu, Denise H. (Frontiers Media Sa, 2018)

  A consistent finding across head-initial languages, such as English, is that subject relative clauses (SRCs) are easier to comprehend than object relative clauses (ORCs). However, several studies in Mandarin Chinese, a ...

• Comparison of the computer-aided articulation therapy application with printed material in children with speech sound disorders 

  Dural, Rana; Ünal Logacev, Özlem (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018)

  Objectives: The aim of the present study was to develop an iPad application for computer-aided articulation therapy called the Turkish Articulation Therapy Application (TARTU), and make comparisons between the efficacy of ...

• Cleft lip and palate assessment form: Medical history, oral-periphery characteristics, speech problems 

  Ünal Logacev, Özlem; Kazanoğlu, Deniz; Balo, Eren; Nemutlu, Ayşe (Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018)

  Objective: The objective of the study is to identify the medical histories, oral-peripheral characteristics and speech problems of children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) or craniofacial anomalies, and eventually create ...

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