Tilbe Göksun, M.A.

E-mail: tgoksun@temple.edu

Lab Webpage: http://www.temple.edu/infantlab/

Personal Webpage: http://www.tilbegoksunyoruk.com/

Tilbe is a fifth year graduate student in developmental psychology. She received her B.A. in psychology from Bogazici University – Istanbul/Turkey in 2002, and M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Koç University - Istanbul/Turkey in 2005. Her main research program examines children’s first language acquisition in a cross-linguistic perspective. She particularly studies the link between event perception and learning relational terms such as verbs and prepositions (the case for figure-ground, path-manner, and causal relations). She is working with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek at Temple Infant Lab.

Representative publications and presentations:

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010, in press). Trading Spaces: Carving up events for learning language. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009). Processing figures and grounds in dynamic and static events. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord, & G. Rheiner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 199-210). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2009). In season? A review of Katherine Nelson’s Young minds in social worlds. Journal of Child Language, 36, 225-233.

Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323.