Publications

Journal Articles

Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (under review). Conditional reasoning in preschoolers: The role of context and alternatives.
Evcen, E., Bale, A. & Barner, D. (under review). Conditional inference and access to alternatives: The role of QUD and speaker knowledge in conditional perfection. [psyarxiv]
Sarısoy, D., Evcen, E. & Hartshorne, J. (under review). Referential form, word order, and implicit causality in Turkish emotion verbs.
Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (in press). Already perfect: Language users access the pragmatic meanings of conditionals first. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science [psyarxiv]
Yeter, Ö., Evcen, E., Rabagliati, H., & Özge, D. (2024). Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey. Cognitive Development, 69, 101412. [publisher download]

Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (to appear). Preschoolers compute literal and pragmatic meanings of conditionals with contextual support. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Sarısoy, D., Evcen, E. & Hartshorne, J. (to appear). Referential form, word order, and implicit causality in Turkish emotion verbs. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Evcen, E. and Wittenberg, E. (2024). Two negatives make a positive: Reducing referential uncertainty through negation and order reversal eases processing in counterfactuals. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 4893-4900. [publisher download]
Evcen, E. and Wittenberg, E. (2022). Making the Question under Discussion explicit shifts counterfactual interpretation. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1855–1862. [publisher download]

Özge, D. and Evcen, E. (2020). Referential form, word order and emotional valence in Turkish pronoun resolution. In U. Özge and D. Zeyrek (eds.). Turkish Discourse, Structure and Meaning. Trends in Linguistics Series, De Gruyter Publishing. [publisher download]