Tan Gedik
Institute of English and American Studies
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I hold a PhD in Psycholinguistics and currently work at the Department of Psychology at Bilkent University. My research examines how literacy shapes language, cognition, and social inference in adult native speakers of Turkish. In particular, I investigate the effects of literacy on morphosyntactic competence, Theory of Mind, narrative structure, referential communication, and semantic fluency, with a special focus on individual differences between literate and illiterate speakers. My work combines approaches from psycholinguistics, psychology and cognitive science to better understand how cultural tools such as literacy influence human cognition and language use. To learn more, visit https://tangedik.bilkent.edu.tr/.
Publications
2025
- Gedik, T. (2025). How literacy acquisition changes L1 grammatical knowledge. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2025-0004
- Gedik, T. (2025). Literacy enhances lexical variation, not quantity, in adult oral production. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-025-00189-3
- Gedik, T., & De la Garza Espinosa, V. (2025). Literacy boosts semantic fluency even in ecologically valid categories. Acta Psychologica, 260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105735
2024
- Gedik, T. (2024). Constructional Emergence in A1-C1: A Bird’s Eye View and Alignment La emergencia constructiva en A1-C1. Panorámica global y alineación. Atlantis, 46(1), 243-264. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2024-46.1.13
- Gedik, T. (2024). Development of the Turkish Author Recognition Task (TART) and the Turkish Vocabulary Size Test (TurVoST). SN Social Sciences, 4(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00930-9
- Gedik, T. (2024). Illiteracy and cognitive sciences: A psycholinguistic perspective. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 1, 37-39. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscog.2024.1.9.37
- Gedik, T. (2024). Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist. Language Sciences, 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101632
- Gedik, T. (2024). Un-teaching Native Speaker Fallacy: A Practical Application and Discussion. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
2023
- Dabrowska, E., & Gedik, T.A. (2023). Lexical knowledge, memory and experience. In Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. (pp. 57-74). Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
- Gedik, T. (2023). Collostructional transfer effects in Turkish learners of English. Pedagogical Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.22019.ged
- Gedik, T., & Uslu, F. (2023). L1-L2 transfer in ditransitive construction: A usage-based replication study with Turkish speakers of English. Springer International Publishing.
2022
- Gedik, T. (2022). The Intransitive-Unaccusative Construction in Turkish and English: L1-L2 Generalizations and Transfer (Master thesis).
- Gedik, T., & Kolsal, Y.S. (2022). A Corpus-based Analysis of High School English Textbooks and English University Entrance Exams in Turkey. Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 8(1), 157-176. https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.9152
2021
- Gedik, T.A. (2021). An analysis of lexicogrammatical development in English textbooks in Turkey: A usage-based construction grammar approach. ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 9(1), 26-55. https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2022-0002