Publications

Manuscripts in Prep

Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (in prep). Imagining possible words and possible worlds in language acquisition.

Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (under review). Children spontaneously compute scalar implicatures. [psyarxiv]
Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (under review). Conditional reasoning in preschoolers: The role of context and alternatives. [psyarxiv]

Sarısoy, D., Evcen, E. & Hartshorne, J. (in press). Pronoun resolution in Turkish: The interplay of referential form, word order and implicit causality. Cognitive Science
Evcen, E., Bale, A. & Barner, D. (2026). Conditional inference and access to alternatives: The role of QUD and speaker knowledge in conditional perfection. Journal of Semantics, ffag003.[publisher download]
Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (2025). Already perfect: Language users access the pragmatic meanings of conditionals first. Open Mind. [publisher download]
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]

† Peer-Reviewed

Evcen, E., Bale, A. & Barner, D. (2025). Which alternatives matter? The role of the Question Under Discussion and speaker knowledge in conditionals. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 35, 65-83. [publisher download]
† Evcen, E. & Barner, D. (2025). Preschoolers compute literal and pragmatic meanings of conditionals with contextual support. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [publisher download]
† Sarısoy, D., Evcen, E. & Hartshorne, J. (2025). Referential form, word order, and implicit causality in Turkish emotion verbs. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [publisher download]
† 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]