Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Second language acquisition
Bilingualism
Heritage language acquisition
Education
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics, Urbana, US.
M.A., Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey.
B.A., Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey.
Grants
Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2024)
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2023–2024)
School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics (SLCL) Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (*declined due to fellowship conflict)
National Science Foundation, Linguistics Program (BCS 22-34698). PI: Silvina Montrul, co-PI: Aylin Coşkun Kunduz. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from heritage language returnees. Amount $19,000. 24 months. March 2023 – February 2025
Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018 – 2023)
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2022)
Awards and Honors
Professional Development Award, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2024)
Conference Travel Award, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2024)
Linguistics Leadership Award, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2023)
Douglas A. Kibbee Prize, School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2023) (*declined due to fellowship conflict)
Paula Menyuk Award for BUCLD-47, Boston University (Fall 2022)
Graduate College Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2022)
C. W. Kim Research Award, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2022)
Graduate College Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2022)
SLATE Doctoral Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2021)
Henry R. Kahane award for outstanding TA in non-western languages, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2021)
CeLCAR Student Travel Stipend Award (to the ten best student abstracts), Indiana University Bloomington (Spring 2020)
SLATE Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2020)
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their students: 3 out of 3 semesters of instruction, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2019 – 2023)
Courses Taught
LING 301 Elements of Syntax
LING 100 Introduction to Language Science
- Invited speaker: Turkic Linguistic Network in Berlin, Germany. Talk title: Ultimate attainment of complex morphosyntax in Turkish-American returnees
- Co-chair of the 15th Annual Meeting of Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS15)
- Invited speaker: The Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) Lab UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Talk title: Exploring individual variation in child and adult Turkish heritage speakers in the United States
Recent Publications
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2024). Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 14(2), 218–254. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21027.cos
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2023). Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States. Language Acquisition. Advance Online Publication. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ERXYJFCCT2IZTBVBDCXF/full?target=10.1080/10489223.2023.2266413
Coşkun Kunduz, A. (2022). Heritage Language Acquisition and Maintenance of Turkish in The United States: Challenges to Teaching Turkish as a Heritage Language. The Journal of Linguistics, 0(38), 41-60. https://doi.org/10.26650/jol.2022.1129254
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2022). Sources of variability in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Turkish heritage language children in the United States. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25(4), 603-616. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921001000
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2021). The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The Case of Older Children. In Ö. Özçelik & A. Kent (Eds). Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Central Asian Language and Linguistics (ConCALL-4) (pp. 259–272). Bloomington, IN: Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR). https://tinyurl.com/2nyxve8b
Coşkun, A., & Gürel, A. (2018). Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğreniminde durum eklerinin kulllanımı [The use of case morphemes in Turkish as a second language]. In Ü. D. Turan, Y. Kopkallı & A. Balcı (Eds). Dilbilimde güncel tartışmalar (pp. 85–95). 31. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri [Proceedings of the 31st National Congress on Linguistics]. Ankara: Dilbilim Derneği Yayınları. https://tinyurl.com/2s36n7sf