FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

I hold a BSc (2019) and an MSc (2023) in Turkish Language Teaching from Hacettepe University, where I specialized in language processing, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD at Hacettepe University’s Institute of Educational Sciences. My MSc research focused on noun-verb collocations, semantic transparency, and reading comprehension, including idiomatic expression processing through lexical decision tasks. As a scholarship holder in the TÜBİTAK Project (222K040), I investigated compound word processing. To enhance my methodological expertise, I completed the Eye-Tracking in Linguistic Research: Theories and Methods course at Ankara University and attended the “Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language” summer school at Radboud University Nijmegen.

You can find me: https://avesis.erciyes.edu.tr/leylacimen and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leyla_Cimen