HATICE ZORA
News
This page will bring you the latest updates on current scientific events that I am involved in as well as research findings and theoretical/scientific advancements that are shaping the future of neurolinguistics.
Prosody Cluster Group
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic
I am happy to announce the launch of the Prosody Cluster Group, a new forum for researchers working on prosody across modalities, languages, and functions. Our monthly meetings will explore key topics such as the architecture and neurobiology of prosody, integrating behavioral, computational, and brain imaging approaches. For more information, please get in touch with me.
Conference talk
MEDAL Conference, 2025
Together with Pärtel Lippus (University of Tartu), I gave a talk on the MEDAL Gold Project, entitled “Multimodal Negation: Gesture and Prosody in Estonian and Turkish,” at the conference “Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics, which took place on 9–10 October 2025 at the University of Tartu, Estonia. For more information, check out here.
New article, in press
Neuropsychologia
Our paper 'Functional roles of Swedish pitch accents and their phonological and cognitive markedness' has been accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia. To our knowledge, it is the first to bring phonological and cognitive markedness together. Publication to be posted here shortly.
MPI Proudly Presents, 2025
Max Planck Institute
I recently gave a talk as part of the MPI Proudly Presents series at the Max Planck Institute. It was a great opportunity to present my work and exchange ideas with researchers across disciplines. Thanks to the organizers for the invitation and a well-run event.
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Invited talk, 2025
Tilburg University
I am excited to share that I will be giving a talk entitled "Rules and Roles: The Relevance of Prosody Across Linguistic Levels" at the Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, on June 24. A big thank to Dr. David Peeters for the kind invitation and for making this possible.
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Donders Day, 2025
Donders Institute
I had the pleasure of giving a talk entitled "To be, or not to be, that is prosody!" at this year's Donders Day, sharing some of our recent research with the vibrant research community at the Donders Institute. Thanks to Stephanie Forkel for having me and for putting together such a great event. Read more about the program here.
SNL Conference, 2025
Gallaudet University, Washington
I am pleased to share that two of our abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Read more about the program here.
SMILE lecture, 2025
Leiden University, The Netherlands
I am grateful to be invited to speak at the launch of the new talk series, SMILE, at Leiden University. The SMILE series explores the interplay between prosody and linguistic structure, language use, and speech processing. Read more about the series here.
New Role: Associate Editor
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
I have joined Language, Cognition and Neuroscience as an Associate Editor. After serving as a reviewer for some time, I’m looking forward to contributing to the journal from an editorial perspective. I appreciate the opportunity and the trust from the team.
New article, in press
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Our paper 'Lexical and information structure functions of prosody and their relevance for spoken communication: Evidence from psychometric and EEG data' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Check here for an early access version.
MEDAL Conference 2025
New challenges, novel approaches
We invite abstract submissions for the ‘Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics: New challenges, novel approaches’ (MEDAL) conference, to take place on 9-10 October 2025 at the University of Tartu, Estonia. For more information, check out here.
New article, 2025
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Our paper 'Relevance of prosodic focus and lexical stress for discourse comprehension in Turkish: Evidence from psychometric and electrophysiological data' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Check here for final version.
TÜling lecture, 2024
University of Tartu, Estonia
I was recently invited to give a TÜling lecture and hold consultation sessions with students and researchers at the University of Tartu. It was a wonderful experience engaging with participants and sharing insights. The entire event was supported by the MEDAL consortium.
Brill
New book chapter, 2024
The chapter “Psycholinguistics and Turkish: Prosodic Representations and Processing” that Prof. Barış Kabak and I wrote together will soon appear in the Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics, Brill (edited by Lars Johanson). For more info about the project and our chapter, check out here.
Speech Prosody
Conference, 2024
The Speech Prosody conference has concluded with great success (02–05 July 2024, Leiden). Thank you to all the organizers, speakers, attendees, and volunteers for making it a memorable event. For those who missed it, the conference proceedings are now available on the ISCA archive.
MEDAL
Summer school, 2024
The MEDAL Summer School on Experimental Linguistics has concluded with great success (17-21 June, Nijmegen). I was delighted to see a large turnout at my EEG workshop on (E)electrified (E)mpirical (G)uide for Language Comprehension at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and am thankful to everyone who attended and contributed to its success. Check out our MEDAL site for more updates.