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Öner Özçelik, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Öner Özçelik is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at the same institution. Until recently, he was Director of the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region, a National Language Resource Center funded by the U.S. Department of Education, conducting research and creating language teaching materials for Central and Western Asian Languages. He has a PhD in Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from McGill University, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught courses and published research on formal phonology and phonetics, as well as on linguistics in general and second language acquisition/teaching, especially with respect to the languages of Central Eurasia. His research focus is autosegmental phonology, and specifically prosody and its acquisition.
