This volume is a collection of papers presented at 18th International Conference on Turkish
Linguistics (ICTL) held every two years since 1982 both in Turkey and abroad interchangably.
ICTL has been a valuable forum for the researchers studying Turkish and Turkic Languages to
share their experiences with their colleagues both in their presentations and also through
papers published in the proceedings of the conferences. In this volume as well 31 papers
covering a wide range of subfields of Linguistic studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages were
submitted for publication. Majority of the articles are on syntax of Modern Turkish
investigating structures of various nominal constructions along with issues related to sound
system of Turkish such as the problem of soft G phonological variation and phonetic
substitution in slips of the tongue. Among the articles on language development two of the
articles are on the development of narrative skills. Additionally articles on other Turkic
languages such as Circassion and Western Iranian Turkish and New Uyghur are also included in
this volume. Articles on methodological issues as figurative language processing and phonetic
notation system as applied to Turkish folk music are also included. Lastly Turkish lexicon is
represented with investigation of the relation between vocabulary and gender and frequency of
words in Turkish idioms.
