Morphological processing of Turkish derived words: Does bilingualism affect the processing route?

Mürselin Taşan is a Research Assistant in the English Language Teaching (ELT) Program at the Faculty of Education, Istanbul Medipol University. Taşan completed undergraduate studies in the ELT Department at Kocaeli University and subsequently earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in English Language Education from Bahçeşehir University, graduating as the valedictorian of the department. Currently, Taşan is pursuing a Ph.D. in the same field at Bahçeşehir University. Holding an internationally recognized CELTA certification, Taşan has served as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructor in California. Throughout their academic career, Taşan has acquired six years of experience teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP) at the tertiary level, instructing multinational student cohorts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Currently focusing on doctoral dissertation research and various academic projects, Taşan’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of EAP/ESP, Cognitive Science, Learning Environments, and Positive Psychology.

Dr. Serkan Uygun is a faculty member at Bahçeşehir University. He completed his undergraduate studies in the English Language Teaching (ELT) department at Istanbul University in 2000, and earned his master's (2010) and doctoral (2016) degrees in the English Language Education program at Yeditepe University. In the subsequent stages of his academic career, he served as a postdoctoral researcher on a project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) in Germany (2018–2021). Dr. Uygun’s primary research interests revolve around psycholinguistics, bilingualism, Turkish as a heritage language, and morphological processing. He is particularly recognized for his experimental studies investigating how Turkish heritage speakers in Germany process and model semantic (e.g., definiteness) and morphological (e.g., subject-verb agreement, aorist generalizations) features. His research has been published in prestigious international journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Second Language Research, and Frontiers in Psychology. Currently, he serves as the principal investigator for a psycholinguistic project funded by the TÜBİTAK 3501 program, which examines morphological processing in L1 and L2 speakers.