Deniz Özkan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Deniz Özkan is involved.
Articles
2025 Simultaneous interpreting experience enhances semantic prediction in Turkish Target 37:4, pp. 627–655 | Article
This study investigates prediction based on verb semantics in a Turkish monolingual comprehension task in professional and student Turkish (A)–English (B) interpreters. Predictive eye movements were compared between the two groups to examine potential differences in the size of the semantic… read more
2023 Simultaneous interpreting experience enhances the use of case markers for prediction in Turkish Interpreting 25:2, pp. 186–210 | Article
This study investigated individual differences in prediction during language comprehension in professional and student Turkish (A)–English (B) simultaneous interpreters as a function of simultaneous interpreting (SI) experience and working memory capacity (WMC). A Turkish visual-world… read more
2017 Semantic prediction in monolingual and bilingual children Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 49–74 | Chapter
One of the mechanisms responsible for the fast recognition of spoken language is prediction. This study examined whether 4–5 year old monolingual children differ from bilingual children in predicting the upcoming noun on the basis of the lexical semantics of the verb. In an eye-tracking task, we… read more


