2024 (9 articles)
Baumann, S., Branum-Martin, L. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (in press). Are cartoons pointless: effect of character and program features on speech and gesture production in children’s television programs. Journal of Children and Media
Doğan, I, Özer, D., Aktan-Erciyes, A. Furman, R. Demir-Lira, E., Özçalışkan, Ş., Göksun, T. (in press). Early iconic gesture comprehension relates differently to receptive language. Infant and Child Development. htps://doi: 10.1002/icd.2552
Tütüncü, I., Emerson, S., Jing, P., Şengül, M., Özçalışkan, Ş. (in press). Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages. Language & Cognition. https://doi. org/10.1017/langcog.2024.44
Aldib, R., Branum-Martin, L. & Özçalışkan, Ş., Sevcik, R. (in press). Investigating prison factors related to literacy and numeracy skills of incarcerated adults. Zeitschrift fur Weiterbildungsforschung (Journal of Continuing Education Research). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40955-024-00291-z
Özçalışkan, Ş., Lucero, C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2024). Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language-specific patterns in co-speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture? Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13507
Öztürk, S. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2024). Gesture’s role in the communications of adults with different types of aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00046
Özçalışkan, Ş., Lucero, C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2024). What the development of gesture with and without speech can tell us about the effect of language on thought. Language & Cognition, 16(1), 220-241. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.34
Lewandowski, W. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2024). Metaphorical events in translation: Does language type matter? Lingua, 298, 103654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103654
Lewandowski, W. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2024). Translating motion events across physical and metaphorical spaces in structurally different vs. structurally similar languages. Metaphor & Symbol. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2023.2268685
2023 (2 articles)
Tütüncü, I., Jing, P., Emerson, S., Şengül, M., Kenesevic, M., & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2023). When gestures do or do not follow language-specific patterns of motion expression in speech: Evidence from Chinese, English, and Turkish. Cognitive Science, 47(4), e13261. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13261
Lewandowski, W. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2023). Running across the mind or across the park: Does speech about physical and metaphorical motion go hand in hand? Cognitive Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022.0077
2022 (2 articles)
Dimitrova, N. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2022). Identifying patterns of similarities and differences between gesture production and comprehension in autism and typical development. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 46, 173-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00394-y
Paul, J., Emerson, S., Özçalışkan, Ş. (2022). Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao vs. Standard Mandarin. Lingua, 270, 103215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103215
2021 (6 articles)
Emerson, S., Limia, V. M., & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2021). Bidirectional cross-linguistic transfer in Turkish-English bilinguals’ description of motion events. Lingua, 264, 103153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103153
Stites, L. J. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2021). Time is at hand: Literacy predicts changes in children’s gestures about time. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 967-983. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09782-3
Lewandowski, W. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2021). The specificity of event expression in first language influences expression of object placement events in second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43(4), 838-869. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000048
Öztürk, S., Pınar, E., Ketrez, N., & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2021). Effect of sex and dyad type on speech and gesture development of singleton and twin children. Journal of Child Language, 48(5), 1048-1066. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000744
Pınar, E., Öztürk, S., Ketrez, N., & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2021). Parental speech and gesture input to girls versus boys in singletons and twins. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 45, 297-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-020-00356-w
Lewandowski, W. & Özçalışkan, Ş., (2021). How language type influences patterns of motion expression in bilingual speakers. Second Language Research, 37(1), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658319877214
2020 (2 articles)
Emerson, S., Conway, C., Özçalışkan, Ş. (2020). Semantic P600—but not N400—effects index crosslinguistic variability in speakers’ expectancies for the expression of motion. Neuropsychologia, 149, 107638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107638
Dimitrova, N., Mohr, C., Özçalışkan, Ş. & Adamson, L. B. (2020). Right-hand pointing gestures predict expressive language in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(4), 1147-1158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04347-9
2019 (2 articles)
Baumann, S., Özçalışkan, Ş. & Adamson, L. B. (2019). Does autism affect gesturing during parent child interactions in the early school years? Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 67, 101440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2019.101440
Limia, V. D., Özçalışkan, Ş., Hoff, E. (2019). Do parents provide a helping hand to vocabulary development in bilingual children? Journal of Child Language, 46, 501-521. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000594
2018 (5 articles)
Özçalışkan, Ş., Adamson, L. B., Dimitrova, N., Baumann, S. (2018). Do parents gesture differently when children’s gestures differ?Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 1492-1507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3411-y
Glaser, M. G., Williamson, R., Özçalışkan, Ş. (2018). Do children understand iconic gestures about events as early as iconic gestures about entities? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47(3), 741-754. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9550-7
Lewandowski, W. & Özçalışkan, Ş., (2018). How event perspective influences speech and co-speech gestures about motion. Journal of Pragmatics, 128, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.001
Hodges, L. & Özçalışkan, Ş., Williamson, R. (2018). Type of iconicity influences children’s comprehension of gesture. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166, 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.08.009
Özçalışkan, Ş., Lucero, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2018). Blind speakers show language-specific patterns in co-speech gesture but not silent gesture. Cognitive Science. 42(3), 1001-1014. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12502
2017 (3 articles, 3 chapters, 1 edited book)
Özçalışkan, Ş., Adamson, L. B., Dimitrova, N., & Baumann, S. (2017). Early gesture provides a helping hand to spoken vocabulary development for children with autism, Down syndrome and typical development. Journal of Cognition and Development. 18(3), 325-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248 372.2017.1329735
Dimitrova, N., Özçalışkan, Ş. & Adamson, L. B. (2017). Do verbal children with autism comprehend gesture as readily as typically developing children? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, 3267-3280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3243-9
Stites, L. J. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2017). Who does what to whom: Children track story referents first in gesture. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46(4), 1019-1032. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9476-0
Ketrez, N., Küntay, Ş, Özçalışkan, Ş. & A. Özyürek (2017) (Eds.), Cognitive and environmental contributions to language development: Studies in Honor of Ayhan Aksu Koç. TILARSeries. New York: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/tilar.21
Özçalışkan, Ş., & Limia, V., & Dimitrova, N. (2017). How robust is the effect of parental response to child gesture in facilitating child vocabulary development across different learners? In A. Küntay, N. Ketrez, Ş, Özçalışkan, & A. Özyürek (Eds.), Cognitive and environmental contributions to language development: Studies in Honor of Ayhan Koç (pp. 69-83). NY: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/tilar.21
Özçalışkan, Ş., Stites, L. J., & Emerson, S. (2017). Crossing the road or crossing the mind: How differently do we move across physical and metaphorical spaces in speech or in gesture? In I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Ed.), Motion and space across languages and applications (257-277). NY: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.59
Ketrez, N., Küntay, A., Özçalışkan, Ş., & Özyürek, A. (2017). Introduction. In N. Ketrez, A. Küntay, Ş. Özçalışkan, & A. Özyürek (Eds.), Cognitive and environmental contributions to language development: Studies in Honor of Ayhan Koç (pp. vi-xii). NY: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/tilar.21
2016 (7 articles, 4 chapters)
Özçalışkan, Ş., Dimitrova, N., & Adamson, L. B. (2016). Early deictic but not other gestures predict vocabulary in both typical development and autism. Autism. 20(6), 754-763. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361315605921
Dimitrova, N., Özçalışkan, Ş. & Adamson, L. B. (2016). Parents’ translations of child gesture facilitate word learning in children with autism, Down syndrome and typical development. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(1), 221-231. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2566-7
Özçalışkan, Ş., Lucero, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Is seeing gesture necessary to gesture like a native speaker? Psychological Science, 27(5), 737-747. (featured article) https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616629931
Özçalışkan, Ş., Lucero, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Does language shape silent gesture? Cognition, 148, 10-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.001
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2016). Do gestures follow speech in bilinguals’ description of motion? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(3), 644-653. http://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000796
Emerson, S., Özçalışkan, Ş. & Frishkoff, G. (2016). The effect of motion type and modality in word learning in English. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37(3), 643-671. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716415000193
Özçalışkan, Ş., Adamson, L., Dimitrova, N., Bailey J. & Schmuck, L. (2016). Baby signs but not spontaneous gestures predict later vocabulary in children with Down Syndrome. Journal of Child Language. 43(4), 948-963. http://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091500029X
Özçalışkan, Ş., & Emerson, S. (2016). Learning to talk, think and gesture about motion in language-specific ways: Insights from Turkish. In N. Ketrez & B. Haznedar (Eds.), Trends in Language Acquisition Research: The acquisition of Turkish in childhood. (pp. 177-191). NY: John Benjamins. http://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.20.08ozc
Özçalışkan, Ş., & Hodges, L. (2016). Jestlerin Çocukların Dilsel ve Bilişsel Gelişimindeki Rolü (Role of gesture in cognitive and linguistic development). In C. Aydin, T. Goksun, A. Kuntay, D. Tahiroglu (Eds.), Aklın Çocuk Hali: Zihin Gelişimi Araştırmaları (Studies on Cognitive Development (pp. 83-106). Istanbul: Koc University Press.
Stites, L. J. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2016). The time is at hand: Literacy influences children’s gestures about time. 40th BUCLD Proceedings. https://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2016/09/STITES_BU.pdf
Mateo, V. & Özçalışkan, Ş., Hoff, E. (2016). Parental translations of child gesture help vocabulary development in bilingual children. In J. Scott, D. Waughtal (Eds.), 40th BUCLD Proceedings (pp. 241-252). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/40/BUCLD40-18.pdf
2015 (1 article, 1 chapter)
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2015). Ways of crossing a spatial boundary in typologically distinct languages. Applied Psycholinguistics, 36, 485-508. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716413000325
Hodges, L.,Özçalışkan, Ş. & Williamson, R. (2015). How early do children understand different types of iconicity in gesture? In E. Grillo & K. Jepson (Eds) 39th BUCLD Proceedings (pp. 244-253). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2014 (2 articles, 2 chapters)
Stanfield, C., Williamson, R. A. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2014). How early do children understand gesture-speech combinations with iconic gestures? Journal of Child Language, 41(2), 462-471. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000019
Özçalışkan, Ş., Gentner, D. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2014). Do iconic gestures pave the way for children’s early verbs? Applied Psycholinguistics, 35, 1143-1162. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716412000720
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2014). Development of metaphor. In P. Brooks, V. Kempe, & G. J. Golson (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Language Development (pp.374-375). NY: Sage Publishers. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/encyclopedia-of-language-development/book239623
Hrabic, M., Williamson, B., & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2014). How early do children understand iconic co-speech gestures conveying action? 38th BUCLD Proceedings. https://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2014/04/hrabic.pdf
2013 (4 articles, 1 chapter)
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Dimitrova, N. (2013). How gesture input provides a helping hand to language development. Seminars in Speech and Language, 34, 155-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0033-1353447
Stites, L. J. & Özçalışkan, Ş (2013). Children’s developing understanding of different spatial metaphors for time. Journal of Child Language, 40(5), 1123-1137. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000912000384
Stites, L. J. & Özçalışkan, Ş (2013). Teasing apart the role of cognitive and linguistic factors in children’s metaphorical abilities. Metaphor and Symbol, 28(2), 1-14. http://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2013.768511
Özçalışkan, Ş., Levine, S. C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2013). Gesturing with an injured brain: How gesture helps children with early brain injury learn linguistic constructions. Journal of Child Language. 40(1), 69-105. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000912000220
Özçalışkan, Ş., & Stites, L. J. (2013). Moving across metaphorical spaces over developmental time. In R. Cabelloro & J. E. Diaz-Vera (Eds.), Sensuous cognition: Explorations into human sentience: Imagination, (e)motion and perception (pp. 221-246). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300772
2010-2012 (1 article, 4 chapters)
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2010). Sex differences in language first appear in gesture. Developmental Science, 13(5), 752-760. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00933.x
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2010). Acquisition of metaphor. In Patrick Hogan (Ed.), Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences (pp.486-488). Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13: 9780521866897
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2011). Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months? In Gale Stam & Mika Ishino (Eds.), Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (163-174). Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.4
Stites, L. J. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2012). How children learn different spatial metaphors for time. In A.Biller, E. Chung & A. Kimball (Eds.), 36th BUCLD Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2012). When gesture does and does not follow speech in describing motion. In A. Biller, E. Chung & A. Kimball (Eds.), 36th BUCLD Proceedings. https://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2012/07/ozcaliskan-36.pdf
2009 (2 articles, 1 chapter, 1 book)
Özçalışkan, Ş., Goldin-Meadow, S., Gentner, D. & Mylander, C. (2009). Does language about similarity foster similarity comparisons in children? Cognition, 112(2), 217-228. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.010
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009). When gesture-speech combinations do and do not index linguistic change. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(24), 190-217. http://doi.org/10.1080/01690960801956911
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2009). Learning to talk about spatial motion in language-specific ways. In J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, K. Nakamura & Ş. Özçalışkan (Eds.), Cross-linguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin (pp. 263-276). New York: Psychology Press. Guo, J., Lieven, E., Budwig, N., Ervin-Tripp, S., Nakamura, K., & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2009). (Eds.), Cross-linguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. New York: Psychology Press. ISBN 9780805859997
2007-2008 (2 articles)
Rowe, M., Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Early gesture production and comprehension provide a helping hand for later vocabulary skills. First Language, 28(2), 185-http://doi.org/10.1177/0142723707088310
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2007). Metaphors we ‘move by’: Children’s developing understanding of metaphorical motion in typologically distinct languages. Metaphor and Symbol, 22(2), 147-168. http://doi.org/10.1080/10926480701235429
2006 (3 chapters)
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). ‘X is like Y’: The emergence of similarity mappings in children’s early speech and gesture. In Gitte Kristianssen, Michael Achard, Rene Dirven & Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (Eds.), Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations and fields of application (pp. 229-262). Mouton de Gruyter. ISSN: 1861-4078
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). Role of gesture in children’s early constructions. In Eve Clark & Barbara Kelly (Eds.), Constructions in acquisition (pp. 31-58). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. SBN (Electronic): 1575869071 (9781575869070)
Rowe, M.; Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). The added value of gesture in predicting vocabulary growth. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller (Eds.), 30th BUCLD Proceedings (pp. 501-512). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2005 (4 articles)
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Gesture is at the cutting edge of early language development. Cognition, 96(3), B101-B113. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.01.001
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Do parents lead their children by the hand? Journal of Child Language, 32(3), 481-505. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000905007002
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2005). On learning to draw the distinction between physical and metaphorical motion: Is metaphor an early emerging cognitive and linguistic capacity? Journal of Child Language, 32(2), 291-318. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000905006884
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2005). Metaphor meets typology: Ways of moving metaphorically in English and Turkish. Cognitive Linguistics, 16(1), 207-246. http://doi.org/10.1515/cogl.2005.16.1.207
2004 (2 articles, 1 chapter)
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2004). ‘Time can’t fly, but a bird can’: Learning how to think and talk about time as spatial motion in English and Turkish. European Journal of the English Language, 8(3), 309- 330. http://doi.org/10.1080/1382557042000277412
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2004). Encoding the manner, path and ground components of a metaphorical motion event. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2, 73-102. http://doi.org/10.1075/arcl.2.03ozc
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2004). When mothers do not lead their children by the hand. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla & C. E. Smith (Eds.), 28th BUCLD Proceedings (pp. 424-435). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2003 (2 articles, 3 chapters)
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). ‘In a caravanserai with two doors, I am walking day and night’: Metaphors of death and life in Turkish. Cognitive Linguistics, 14(4), 281-320. http://doi.org/10.1515/cogl.2003.012
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Metaphorical motion in crosslinguistic perspective. A comparison of English and Turkish. Metaphor and Symbol, 18(3), 189-228. http://doi.org/10.1207/S15327868MS1803_05
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2003). Codability effects on the expression of manner of motion in English and Turkish. In A. S. Özsoy, M. Nakipoglu-Demiralp, E. Erguvanlı-Taylan & A. Aksu-Koç (Eds.), Studies in Turkish Linguistics (pp. 259-270). Istanbul: Bogaziçi University Press. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.8
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). ‘Time slips, life flows, death arrives’: Metaphorical construal of the human life cycle in Turkish. In A. S. Özsoy, M. Nakipoglu-Demiralp, E. Erguvanlı-Taylan, & A. Aksu-Koç (Eds.), Studies in Turkish Linguistics (pp. 259-270). Istanbul: Bogazici University Press. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.8
Özçalışkan, Ş. (2003). Children’s developing understanding of metaphors about the mind. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, F. Conlin (Eds.), 27th BUCLD Proceedings (603-614). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
1995-2000 (2 articles, 4 chapters)
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2000). ‘Climb up’ vs. ‘ascend climbing’: Lexicalization choices in expressing motion events with manner and path components. In S. Catherine-Howell; S. A. Fish & K. Lucas (Eds.), 24th BUCLD Proceedings (pp. 558-570). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (2000). Expression of manner of movement in monolingual and bilingual adult narratives: Turkish vs. English. In A. Göksel & C. Kerslake (Eds.), Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages (pp. 253-262). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Özyürek, A. & Özçalışkan, Ş. (2000). How children learn to conflate manner and path in their speech and gestures. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Stanford Child Language Research Forum, CSLI Publications (pp. 77-85). Palo Alto, California.
Özçalışkan, Ş. & Slobin, D. I. (1999). Learning ‘how to search for the frog’: Expression of manner of motion in English, Spanish and Turkish. In A. Greenhill, H. Littlefield & C. Tano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 541-552). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Özçalışkan, Ş. (1996). Analysis of a Turkish wondertale within Vladimir Propp’s morphological framework. Dilbilim Araştırmaları [Linguistic Research], 165-172. http://dad.boun.edu.tr/en/download/article-file/52720
Özçalışkan, Ş. (1994). Use of profanity by Turkish males and females. Dilbilim Araştırmaları [Linguistic Research], 274-287. http://dad.boun.edu.tr/en/download/article-file/52763
