Biographie
Seçkin Arslan is a tenured associate researcher (CR/CN) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), based at BCL/Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, France. His work lies at the intersection of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and clinical linguistics with a primary focus on language processing in typical and clinical populations. He is currently the PI on an ANR project on cognitive modulators of language change in the Balkans language area, and he has been the lead of the Working Group 2: Aphasia Assessment and Outcomes under the Collaborations of Aphasia Trialists https://www.aphasiatrials.org/
For more updates see his personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/seckin-arslan/home
Dr. Arslan has led and contributed to numerous funded research project teams, recently and ongoing ones including:
French National Research Agency (ANR), Project PI: MindContact: Cognitive Aspects of language contact in the Balkan language area (2024-2029)
Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Project Coordinator: BALKANLING: Psycholinguistic results of language change and variation in the Balkan linguistic area in contact with Francophone countries (2024-2026)
French National Research Agency (ANR), MRSEI/Network Project coordinator, ALI-Multi: Acquired Neurogenic Language Impairments in a Multilingual World (2024-2026)
Hubert Curien Partnership, French-Turkish Bosphore programme. A grammar of lies: cross-linguistic investigations on evidentiality in language and deception. Co-PI with Çağla Aydın, Sabancı University, Turkey. (MEAE/MESR & TÜBITAK, 2023-2025)
Seckin Arslan’s recent publications include
Arslan, S., Cho, S. W., Lee, M., Selvi Balo, S., Lee, S.-Y., Lee, S., Yeom, H., Maviş, İ., Meunier, F., & Kim, S. Y. (in press). Older, wiser, linguistically savvy: A comparative experimental study of grammatical evidentiality across younger and older generations in Turkish and Korean speakers. Applied Psycholinguistics. OSF: https://osf.io/6xmbw
Cordalija, N., Bastiaanse, R., Glatz, T., Arslan, S., & Popov, S. (in press). Unaccusativity and grammatical aspect: A cross-modal lexical priming study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Arslan, S., Norvik, M. I., Alyahya, R. S. W., Anjum, J., Fyndanis, V., Grima, R., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Munarriz-Ibarrola, A., Peñaloza, C., Pierce, J. E., Pourquié, M., Python, G., Scheffer, S. D., Soroli, E., Sze, W. P., Kambanaros, M., & Multilingual Aphasia Practices Consensus Group. (2026). Characterizing the linguistic profiles, training needs, and caseloads of speech-language pathologists providing clinical services to multilingual people with aphasia: The international Multilingual Aphasia Practices (MAP) consensus group survey. PLoS ONE, 21(4), e0346488. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346488
Matić, A., Pourquié, M., Norvik, M., Kuvač Kraljević, J., Gram Simonsen, H., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., … Arslan, S. (2026). Setting a research agenda for the assessment and treatment of aphasia in minority languages. Cortex, 198, 13-26. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.02.013
Arslan, S. (2026). Self-paced reading: Common practices and methodological considerations. In H. Nesi, P. Milin, & D. Filipović Đurđević (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and linguistics (3rd ed.). Reference Module in Social Sciences: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01288-6
Arslan, S., & Peñaloza, C. (2026). Across countries and cultures: the assessment of aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations. Aphasiology, 40(2), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2025.2468546
Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Arslan, S., Fyndanis, V., Howard, D., Kraljević, J. K., Škorić, A. M., … & Soroli, E. (2026). Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: A review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations. Aphasiology, 40(2), 215-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2343456
Arslan, S., Selvi-Balo, S., & Maviş, İ. (2025). Limitations during processing of variable reflexive anaphors and overt/null object pronouns in Turkish aphasia revealed by eye-tracking during listening studies. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 73, 101221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101221
Shoghi, S., Arslan, S., Bastiaanse, R., & Popov, S. (2025). Visual priming and parsing preferences: A self-paced reading study of PP-attachment ambiguity in Dutch verb-final structures. Lingua, 313, 103840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103840
Arslan, S. (2025). Spontaneous production of pronominal elements in Turkish non-fluent aphasia. Aphasiology, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2025.2578180
Özdemir, Ş., Balo, E., Arslan, S., & Maviş, İ. (2025). Language Pathology and Turkish. In Johanson, L. (Eds). The Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Online. Brill. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/2667-3029_ETLO_SIM_032144
Simeonova, V. & Arslan, S. (2025). From Fables to Newspapers: Turkish and Bulgarian Evidentiality in Written Genres. Balcania et Slavia, 5(1), 69‑86. http://doi.org/10.30687/BES/2785-3187/2025/01/005
Arslan, S., Mirić, M., Ćirković, S., Padure, C., & Adamou, E. (2025) Cross-linguistic priming in comprehension facilitates change in adjective-noun order: Eye-tracking evidence from Romani-Romanian and Romani-Serbian bilinguals. Glossa Contact, 1(2), 1-54. https://doi.org/10.82012/glossa.contact.2025.arslan.et.al
Adamou, E., & Arslan, S. (2024). Dead or alive: A lifetime effect of Pomak nominal tense in a self-paced reading experiment. Languages, 9(11), 331. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9110331
Thomsen, K., Keulen, S., & Arslan, S. (2024). Functional correlates of executive dysfunction in primary progressive aphasia: a systematic review. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 16, 1448214. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2024.1448214
Arslan, S., Tunalı, E. T., Çetin, Y., & Aydın, Ö. (2024). Eyes do not lie but words do: Evidence from eye-movement monitoring during reading that misuse of evidentiality marking in Turkish is interpreted as deceptive. Functions of Language, 31(1), 90-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.22061.ars
Tokaç-Scheffer, S. D., Nickels, L., & Arslan, S. (2024). One suitcase, two grammars: What can we conclude about Australian Turkish heritage speakers’ divergent processing of evidentiality?. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(s2), 125-138. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0101
Arslan, S., Puzella, G. Y., Balo, S. S., Aydın, Ö., & Maviş, İ. (2024). Quantifier spreading errors during pronoun processing in aphasia. Studies in Psychology, 44(1), 125-142. https://doi.org/10.26650/SP2023-1241698
Aydin, C., Arslan, S., & Tanis, S. B., Kalender, S., Gunes, A.K. (2024). ” They say” makes good liars: an investigation on evidentiality in language and deception. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64v7v3b8
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