Kabak
Prof. Dr. Barış KABAK
Professor of English Linguistics
Office Phone and Email
Room: 5.U.12
Phone: +49 931 31-86519
Fax: +49 931 31-85660
Email: baris.kabak@uni-wuerzburg.de
Information about Prof. Kabak's office hours
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Secretary: Karin Kernahan
Phone: +49 931 31-81125 / -86587
Research Interests
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Phonology and Phonetics
Prosodic Phonology
Music-Prosody Interface
Prosodic Typology
Phonological Change and Variation
Morphology and Syntax
Morphophonology and its interfaces with syntax
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Bilingualism
English Linguistics
English Phonetics and Phonology
English Morphology
Sociophonetics of English Varieties
Turkish Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
Korean Phonology
I am currently a professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. From October 2018 until April 2021, I was a member of the University Board as Vice President for Internationalization, Alumni and Public Relations. I founded JMU podcast, the podcast of the University of Würzburg in 2019 (Click here for a press release about JMU Podcast and here for a Main Post article about it).
Before coming to Würzburg, I worked as an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) of English and General Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz (2005-2011). In Summer 2010, I became a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, which allowed me to have a research stay at the University of Oxford. During my assistant professorship, I substituted for the professorship of English Linguistics (2009-2010) and the professorship of Psycho-/ Neurolinguistics (2008-2009) at Konstanz.
Before I got on the professorial track, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow within the Special Research Unit 471 ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prior to that, I taught various linguistics courses at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, at the University of Delaware in the USA, where I was a graduate student (1998-2003), and a Competitive Fellow. I did my undergraduate studies in English Language Teaching and Linguistics at Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey, and at the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA. I am a native of Istanbul.
Courses in Summer Semester 2025
Introduction to English Linguistics – Mondays, 12-14
Practice Session - Introduction to English Linguistics – Mondays, 16-18
Second Language Acquisition – Tuesdays, 10-12
Phonological Structure of English Words – Tuesdays, 16-18
American English: History, Variation and Change – Wednesdays, 10-12
Recently organized workshops
Workshop: Multifaceted and Multifactorial Approaches to Developing Phonological Systems (https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=4589). 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 47, https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?sub=167), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 05.03-06.03.2025 (mit Prof. Angela Grimm).
International Workshop on Suprasegmentals in Acquisition and Processing 31 May-01 June 2011, University of Konstanz (with Bettina Braun).
Phonology Workshop: Phonological Domains, Universals and Deviations (29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Siegen, with Janet Grijzenhout).
Discovering and Representing Phonological Patterns 10-12 April 2008, University of Konstanz.
