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Baris Kabak is a Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. He previously held a Junior Professorship at the University of Konstanz and served as Vice President for Internationalization from 2018–2021. Kabak founded the JMU Podcast in 2019 and has been a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
- Education: PhD in Linguistics (University of Delaware, 2003), MA in Linguistics (University of Delaware, 2000), BA in English Language Teaching (Boğaziçi University, 1998)
Research Interests span phonology, phonetics, and prosodic typology, with a focus on Turkish and Korean linguistics. His work explores cross-linguistic influences in second language acquisition, stress-melody alignment in music, and sociophonetic variation in English varieties. He investigates phonological change, morphophonology-syntax interfaces, and bilingual speech perception.
- Workshop Organization: Co-organized events on phonological domains, stress systems, and suprasegmental processing.
Scientific Awards include the Dean’s Honors List at Binghamton University and a Competitive Fellowship at the University of Delaware. His students have received accolades for dissertations on Turkish-German bilingualism and Turkish stress patterns.
Advisory Role: Supervised PhD projects on non-native English, L3 phonology, Turkish verb agreement, Russian stress systems, and Korean suspended affixation. Current advisee: Matthias Krebs (L2 phonology of English).
