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Özge Bakay

@ozgebakay.bsky.social

Psycholinguist & Postdoc at U of Michigan

Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

End of an era, start of a new one: I became Dr. Bakay last week, after successfully defending my dissertation at UMass Amherst Linguistics 🎓🎉 Thank you to so many people for their support; a HUGE thank you to my advisors, @linguistbrian.bsky.social and Faruk Akkuş 😇 Next stop: U of Michigan 💙💛

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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'll be joining @jonrbrennan.bsky.social's lab at the University of Michigan as a Postdoctoral Fellow in October! 🎉 We'll work on an NSF-funded project on computational modeling of EEG data. Thanks to all my collaborators, especially my advisors, Dr. @linguistbrian.bsky.social and Dr. Faruk Akkuş!

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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I gave a talk at HSP 2026 @mit.edu, on agreement attraction in Turkish! We showed evidence for the role of structural positional associations in memory. This was joint work with @utkuturk.com, Duygu Demiray and @linguistbrian.bsky.social (that's me at the very back!)

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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

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