UÄŸurcan Vurgun

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Research

  • Vurgun, U., Cho, S., Fusaroli, R., Ip, M. H. K., Pelella, M. R., Knox, A., Schillinger, S., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Madya, M., Lyons, M., Lee, A., Fulop, L., Adeniyi, H., Russell, A., Hicks, G., Anello, O., Walker, K., Fiumara, J., Tunç, B., Sariyanidi, E., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Detecting Autism through Automated Speech Analysis: The Role of Model Complexity and Dataset Balance. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Cho, S., Vurgun, U., Fusaroli, R., Ip, M. H. K., Pelella, M. R., Knox, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Madya, M., Lyons, M., Lee, A., Fulop, L., Schillinger, S., Russell, A., Hicks, G., Walker, K., Fiumara, J., Chatham, C., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Stable Acoustic Differences between Autistic and Neurotypical Children: A Longitudinal Telephony Study. Oral presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Cho, S., Vurgun, U., Fusaroli, R., Ip, M. H. K., Pelella, M. R., Knox, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Madya, M., Lyons, M., Lee, A., Fulop, L., Russell, A., Hicks, G., Fiumara, J., Pandey, J., Tunç, B., Sariyanidi, E., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Automatically-derived Lexical Features Distinguish Autistic Teens from Neurotypical Peers and Teens with Other Psychiatric Conditions in a Natural Conversation Task. Oral presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Ip, Martin H. K., Putnam, O., Cho, S., Vurgun, U., Lyons, M., Knox, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Madya, M., Adeniyi, H., Hicks, G., Anello, O., Walker, K., Fiumara, J., Cieri, C., Fusaroli, R., Chatham, C., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Prosodic similarities and variation in autistic and neurotypical children: A telephone-based study of verbal counting. Oral presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Li, C., Mowery, D. L., Ma, X., Yang, R., Vurgun, U., Hwang, S., Donnelly, H. K., Bandhey, H., Akhtar, Z., Senathirajah, Y., Sadhu, E. M., Getzen, E., Freda, P. J., Long, Q., Becich, M. J. (Submitted). Realizing the Potential of Social Determinants Data: A Scoping Review of Approaches for Screening, Linkage, Extraction, Analysis, and Interventions. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

  • Vurgun, U., Cho, S., Fusaroli, R., Ip, M. H. K., Pelella, M. R., Knox, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Madya, M., Lyons, M., Lee, A., Schillinger, S., Fulop, L., Adeniyi, H., Russell, A., Fiumara, J., Hicks, G., Anello, O., Walker, K., Tunç, B., Sariyanidi, E., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Automatic classification of autism using automatic speech recognition and large language models (LLMs). Poster presentation at Meeting on Language and Autism, Durham, NC.

  • Cho, S., Vurgun, U., Fusaroli, R., Ip, M. H. K., Pelella, M.R., Knox, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Madya, M., Lyons, M., Lee, A., Schillinger, S., Fulop, L., Russell, A., Hicks, G., Fiumara, J., Pandey, J., Tunç, B., Sariyanidi, V., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Autistic teens’ word choice differs from neurotypical peers and teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a natural conversation task. Poster presentation at Meeting on Language and Autism, Durham, NC.

  • Ip, M. H. K., Putnam, O. C., Cho, S., Vurgun, U., Lyons, M., Knox, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Fulop, L., Russell, A., Walker, K., Miller, J., Fiumara, J., Fusaroli, R., Chatham, C., Cieri, C., Lee, A., Liberman, M., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2024). Does speech prosody differ in a socially unengaging task? Preliminary findings from autistic and non-autistic children’s verbal counting. Poster presentation at Meeting on Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

  • Vurgun, U., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (in review). Aspectual framing shifts visual event apprehension. Cognitive Science.

  • Vurgun, U., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2023). Aspectual processing and event perception. Talk presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pittsburgh.

  • Vurgun, U., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2023). Aspectual framing of events shifts online event apprehension. 98th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver, CO.

  • Vurgun, U., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2022). Lexical aspect maps onto event apprehension. 2nd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Vurgun, U., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2022). Linguistic aspect constrains event apprehension. 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.

  • Vurgun, U. (2020). Both locative alternation variants in Turkish are change-of-state predicates with ResultPs. 4th Conference of Central Asian Language and Linguistics, Indiana University.

  • Vurgun, U. (2019). A lexical-typological approach explaining the limited existence of locative alternation in Turkish. 4th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+4), NYU.

  • Vurgun, U. (2019). The syntax of focus particles in Turkish. Unpublished master’s thesis, BoÄŸaziçi University. Advisors: Dr. H. Mine NakipoÄŸlu & Dr. A. Sumru Özsoy.

  • Vurgun, U. (2018). Book review - Contemporary Morphological Theories: A User’s Guide. Thomas W. Stewart, 2015. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 192 pages. ISBN 978 07 486 9268 2. Journal of Linguistic Research, 29(2), 129-137.


Fellowships and Awards


  • Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Travel Award for Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) [2024].
  • The 48th Annual Boston University Conference On Language Development, Diversity Travel Award [2023].
  • University of Pennsylvania, Language and Communication Sciences Research Fund [2021, 2022, 2023].
  • University of Pennsylvania, Integrated Language Sciences and Technology Research Fund [2022, 2023].
  • University of Pennsylvania, GAPSA Research Travel Grant [2022].
  • University of Pennsylvania, SAS Dean’s Travel Subvention [2022].
  • University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin Fellowship [2019-2024].
  • BoÄŸaziçi University, Research Travel Grant [2019].
  • Koç University, Vehbi Koç Fellowship [2002-2007].


Reviewing


  • Folia Linguistica.
  • CogSci (The Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society).
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.


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