Serpil Karabüklü

Serpil Karabüklü

she/her

Postdoctoral Researcher at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Talks and Presentations

Invited Presentations

  • Karabüklü, S. (2025). Prominence in Simultaneity: Instrumentality, Typicality, and Functionality in ASL and TİD. Talk presented at the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language, Oct 17.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2025). What is the role of Head Nod in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): Signer Certainty, Confirmation, or Verum? Talk presented at Tu+ 10: The 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, Los Angeles, CA, Mar 1-2.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2024). Focus realization in the extended domain. Talk presented at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Multimodal Language Department, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Dec 5.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2024). (A)typicality in Manual and Nonmanual Channels. Talk presented at Wichita State University Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Wichita, KS, Mar 8.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2024). Effects of Atypicality in Manual and Nonmanual Domains. Talk presented at Southern Illinois University Department of Languages and Cultures, Carbondale, IL, Jan 18.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2023). Accommodations to Atypicality: Role of Nonmanuals. Talk presented at Boğaziçi University Department of Linguistics, İstanbul, Turkey, Nov 24.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2023). Effects of Head Nod and Eye Squint on Signer Certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Talk presented at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Linguistics Austin, TX, USA, Mar 22.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2022). Nonmanuals and Signer Certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Talk presented at the University of Edinburgh Department of Linguistics Edinburgh, UK, Nov 28.

Refereed Conference Presentations

  • Karabüklü, S. & Brentari, D. (2026). Simultaneous Articulation in Sign Languages Enhances Semantic Capabilities. Talk will be presented at the Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Jan 8-11.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2025) Form and Meaning Relations of Head Nods Across Sign Languages: A Pose Estimation Study. Talk presented at Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain, Nov 6-7.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2025). Changes in perception and cognition in signers and learners due to the physical and linguistic properties of sign language signal. Presented at Perceiving Motion, Producing Meaning: How Sign Language Rewires the Body and Brain at 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit, Oct 21-23
  • Roolefsen, F., Baills, F., Barberà, G., van Boven C., Veiga Busto, R., Costello, B., Esselink, L., Heim, J., Herrmann, A., Karabüklü, S., Kimmelman, V., Lackner, A., Lombart, C., Loos, C., Meister, N. K., Paulus, L., Navarette-González, A., Prieto, P., Repp, S., Rohrer, P. L., de Ronde, T., Wolfe, R., Woods, R., Zorzi, G. & Oomen, M. (2025). ANM: Developing an Annotation standard for Non-Manual elements in visual communication. International and cross-disciplinary collaboration at ISGS 10: International Society in Gesture Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July 9-11.
  • Karabüklü, S. & Gürer, A. (2025). Prosody of Focus in Extended Domain in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Talk presented at Multimodal Prosody Symposium at ISGS 10: International Society in Gesture Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July 9-11.
  • Karabüklü, S. & Brentari, D. (2025). Accommodation in atypical situations: Crosslinguistic production and perception studies. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR 15), Ethiopia, Jan 14-17.
  • Karabüklü, S. & Brentari, D. (2024). Accommodation in atypical situations: Crosslinguistic production and perception studies. Formal and Experimental Studies in Sign Language Theory 2024 (FEAST 2024), Ann Arbor, MI., USA, Aug 6-8.
  • Gürer, A., Karabüklü, S. & Çavuşoğlu, B. (2024) Focus prominence in focal and non-focal domains in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Formal and Experimental Studies in Sign Language Theory 2024 (FEAST 2024), Ann Arbor, MI., USA, Aug 6-8, [poster].
  • Karabüklü, S. & Brentari, D. (2024). More cues are not always “better”: Resolving instrument atypicality in the visual domain. The 37th Annual Conference Human Sentence Processing, Ann Arbor, MI., USA, May 16-18, [poster].
  • Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, RB. (2024). Novel marking of signer commitment in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). The 46th Annual Conference of German Linguistic Society (DGfS 46), The Workshop Clause-type Marking in the Visual Domain, Bochum, Germany Feb 28-Mar 1.
  • Karabüklü, S., Gürer, A. & Çavuşoğlu, B. (2024). Focus and givenness in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). The 46th Annual Conference of German Linguistic Society (DGfS 46), The Workshop Prosody in Focus – Prominence Marking from Multiple Perspectives, Bochum, Germany, Feb 28-Mar 1.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2024). Simultaneity and certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). The 98th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA 98), New York, NY., USA, Jan 4-7.
  • Karabüklü, S., Brentari, D. & Hakgüder, E. (2024). A crosslinguistic study of signers’ accommodations to atypicality: Effects of simultaneity. The 98th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY., USA, Jan 4-7.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2023). Strategies to convey signer certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)? XPRAG X. The 10th Biennial Meeting of Experimental Pragmatics. Paris, France, Sep 20-22, [poster].
  • Karabüklü, S. (2023). Where do nonmanuals live? Experimental study on signer certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)? Sinn und Bedeutung 28. Special Session on Semantics and Pragmatics of Co-Speech/Co-Sign Communication. Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany, Sep 5-8, [poster].
  • Karabüklü, S. (2023). Evidential Restriction on Epistemic Signs: Experimental Study in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), the Workshop on Modality in Underdescribed Languages (WMUL), Humbodlt University, Berlin, Germany, Apr 20-22.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2023). LAZIM in TİD: Lexical Borrowing Comes with Structure. Coexistence, Competition, and Change, The 45th Annual Meeting of German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2023), Frankfurt University, Frankfurt, Germany, Mar 8-10.
  • Gürer, A. & Karabüklü, S. (2022). Non-manual Focus Markers in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), Seventh Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+7), the University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA, Feb 18-19.
  • Kentner, A., Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2022). An Articulatory Model for Annotating Non-manual Markers in Sign Languages, the 96th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC., USA, Jan 6-9.
  • Özkul, A. & Karabüklü, S. (2019). A Morphological Analysis of Number Signs in TİD, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Hamburg, Germany, Sep 26-28, [poster]
  • Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2019). Is the mouth marking evidential in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)? Expressing Evidence Workshop, Konstanz, Germany, Jun 6-8.
  • Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2019). Seeing Possible Worlds, Chicago Linguistics Society 55th Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, May 16-18.
  • Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2018) Cinque’s Hierarchy and Its Mapping in Sign Languages, Sign Language Grammars Through the Formal and Experimental Glass, Crete, Greece, Jul 25, [poster].
  • Karabüklü, S., Bross, F., Wilbur, R. B. & Hole, D. (2018). Modal signs and scope relations in TİD, Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theories, Venice, Italy, Jun 18-21, [poster]
  • Crabtree, M. R., Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R.B. (2018). Looking for Sign Language Universals in JSL Modals, The 7th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, Sep 28-30.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2016). Revisiting the non-manual marker ‘bn’ in TİD, Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST), Venice, Italy, Sep 1-2.
  • Karabüklü, S. (2016). A Semantic Analysis of Perfective Markers in TİD, 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, Central Connecticut State University, Hartford, CT, USA, May 12-15
  • 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, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portoroz, Slovenia, May 23-28.
  • Karabüklü, S., Derici, C., Kelepir, M., Özsoy, A. S. & Güngör, T. (2015). Türk İşaret Dili (TİD) Kullanıcılarının Türkçe Okuma Yazma Becerilerinin Geliştirilmesi için Malzeme (A material to develop TİD signers’ Turkish reading and writing skills), 2015 International Congress on Barrier-Free Information Technology (BİLTEVT 2015), Celal Bayer University, Manisa, Turkey, Sep. 2-4,
  • Karabüklü, S. (2015). Description of A Perfective Marker in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Languages Theory (FEAST), University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, May 4-6 [poster]