Publications

My publications investigate how linguistic information is organized across multiple channels in sign languages and what this reveals about human language and cognition. The work spans three interconnected research areas, combining theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches.

Research Areas

Linguistic Structure, Simultaneity, and Meaning

Semantics, pragmatics, prosody, and information structure across manual and nonmanual articulators, including certainty, focus, aspect, and modality in sign languages. Explore this research →

Language Experience, Production, and Processing

Age-of-acquisition effects on linguistic production and judgments, the relationship between sign language experience and visual attention, and the quantitative analysis of articulatory movement. Explore this research →

Computational Modeling and Linguistic Evaluation

Linguistically grounded evaluation of sign language models, minimal translation pairs, and computational methods for analyzing linguistic structure. Explore this research →

Preprints

Karabüklü, S., Hakgüder, E. & Brentari, D. (2026). Beyond the Label: Capturing Nuanced Head Nod Distinctions in ASL and TİD via Pose Estimation and DTW. PsyArXiv. DOI

Journal Articles

Gürer, A., Karabüklü, S. & Çavuşoğlu, B. (2025). Duration as a prosodic cue in TİD: Focus realization in the extended domain. Glossa. A journal of general linguistics, 10(1). DOI

Karabüklü, S., Wood, S. *., Bradley, C., Wilbur, R. & Malaia, E. (2025). Effect of sign language learning on temporal resolution of visual attention. _Journal of Vision_, 25(1):3. DOI ( = indicates equal contribution)

Karabüklü, S. (2024). Simultaneity of Certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Journal of Pragmatics, 232:141-166, DOI

Karabüklü, S. & Gürer, A. (2024). The Prosody of Focus in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Language and Cognition, 16(4):1238-1271. DOI

Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2021). Marking various aspects in TİD: BİT (finish) and ‘bn’, Sign Language and Linguistics 24:2, 182-225. DOI

Eryiğit, G., Eryiğit, C., Karabüklü, S., Kelepir, M., Özkul, A., Pamay, T., Torunoğlu-Selamet, D. & Köse, H. (2020). Building the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish Sign Language resource: Methods, challenges and solutions, Language Resources and Evaluation 54: 97-121. DOI

Karabüklü, S. (2018). Strategies to express time in a tenseless language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD), Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi [Journal of Linguistics Research] 29/1: 87-118. DOI

Conference Proceedings

Karabüklü, S., Misra, K., Gueuwou, S., Brentari, D., Shakhnarovich, G. & Livescu, K. (2026). Targeted Linguistic Analysis of Sign Language Models with Minimal Translation Pairs. Nonarchival Proceedings of GenSign: Generative AI for Sign Language Workshop at CVPR 2026. arXiv link Best Paper Award - GenSign, CVPR 2026

Gürer, A. & Karabüklü, S. (2023). Non-manual Focus Markers in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Proceedings of TU+ 7 Workshop. 32-45. DOI

Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2020). Seeing Possible Worlds. Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 55th Meeting, 189-204.

Karabüklü, S., Bross, F., Wilbur, R. B. & Hole D. (2018). Modal Signs and Scope Relations in TİD. Proceedings of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) 2: 82-92. DOI

Karabüklü, S. (2017). One function or labor division: Two aspect signs in TİD. Proceedings of 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL12)

Eryiğit, C., Karabüklü, S., Özkul, A., Torunoğlu-Selamet, D., Köse, H., Eryiğit, G., Kelepir & M. Özsoy, A.S. (2016). Türk İşaret Dili sözcüklerin çevirimiçi ortamda birleştirilmesi çalışmaları (The study of unifying Turkish Sign Language (TİD) dictionaries in online environment), In B. Savaş, D. Yüksel, D. Fidan, B. Öztürk B. İ. Karagül, (Eds.) 29. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurul tayı Bildirileri (29th National Linguistics Meeting), 155-162

Camgöz, N. C., Kındıroğlu, A., Karabüklü, S., Kelepir, M., Özsoy, A. S. &Akarun, L. (2016). BosphorusSign: A Turkish Sign Language Recognition Corpus in Health and Finance Applications. 10th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)

Edited Volumes

Kimmelman, V., Oomen, M., Zorzi, G., Karabüklü, S., Navarrete González, A., Parini, A., & Veiga Busto, R. (2025). Proceedings of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST), vol 6.