drAnna Skałba

PhD Student (Doktorantka)
Starszy technik

  • Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, p. 003

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Degrees

  • PhD in Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2025
  • M.A. in English Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2020
  • B.A. in English Philology, State University of Applied Sciences, Nowy Sącz, 2018

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism and multilingualism
  • Mental representation of syntax
  • Eye-tracking
  • Syntactic priming
  • Second and third language acquisition

Teaching experience

  • EFL at academic level
  • English grammar
  • Business English
  • Preparation for Cambridge exams

Research projects

  • “Bidirectional interactions between symmetric and asymmetric grammatical gender systems in
    bilingual language comprehension and production”, National Science Centre, OPUS-25-HS
    (2023/49/B/HS2/00173), PI: Kamil Długosz, 2024–2027.
  • “Multibridge: Bridging the gap between multilingual research and society”, Science &
    Society bilateral initiative in social sciences, arts and humanities, EEA & Norway Grants
    (UMO-2024/43/7/HS6/00002), PI: Magdalena Wrembel, 2024–2025.
  • “Cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism across domains: phonology and syntax”, National
    Science Centre, OPUS-19-HS (UMO-2020/37/B/HS2/00617), PI: Magdalena Wrembel, 2024.
  • “Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism”, National Science Centre, GRIEG 1
    (UMO-2019/34/H/HS2/00495), PI: Magdalena Wrembel, 2022–2024.
  • “The representation of grammatical tenses in the bilingual mind and brain”, ID-UB: Doctoral
    mini-grant (054/13/SNJL/0007), PI: Anna Skałba, 2022–2023.
  • “Stereotypically thinking: Neural correlates of stereotype processing in the native and non-native
    language”, National Science Centre, OPUS 21 (2021/41/B/HS2/00249), PI: Katarzyna Jankowiak,
    2022.

Publications

  • Castle, C., Skałba, A., & Westergaard, M. (2025). Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition:
    Investigating the roles of dominance and recency. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism [online first].
  • Jankowiak, K., Naranowicz, M., Skałba, A., Drążkowski, D., & Pawelczyk, J. (2025). Stereotypically
    thinking: Norms for stereotypical gender nouns in Polish and English. PLOS One.
  • Jankowiak, K., Naranowicz, M., Skałba, A., Drążkowski, D., & Pawelczyk, J. (2024). Norms for gender
    stereotypically congruent, stereotypically incongruent, semantically correct, and semantically
    incorrect sentences in Polish and English. PLOS One
  • Żychliński, S., Skałba, A., Wrembel, M., & Kaźmierski, K. (2023). How syntactic gradience in L1 affects
    L3 acquisition: A longitudinal study. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism [online first].
  • Skałba, A. (2022). Que peut révéler la traduction de la représentation mentale des structures
    syntaxiques ? Le cas du passé composé et du present perfect. SHS Web of Conferences 138(3):
    09009.
  • Skałba, A. (2021). Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind. In K.
    Jasiewicz & M. Zięba-Plebankiewicz (eds.), At the crossroads: Papers on language and culture
    in the 20th and 21st centuries     (pp. 10–26). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej
    w Nowym Sączu.
  • Skałba, A. (2019). The representation of French initial vowels within the Onset Promincence
    Framework. In K. Jasiewicz & M. Zięba-Plebankiewicz (eds.), Neophilologica Sandeciensia, 13
    (pp. 50–60). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Nowym Sączu.

Papers read at international conferences

  • "Weak conceptualisation of present perfect in Polish-English bilinguals: Evidence from eye-tracking and EEG" (A. Skałba, G. Thierry). International Congress of Linguists, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (8-14 September 2024).
  • "Shared representation for present perfect and passé composé in French-English bilinguals? (A. Skałba, G. Thierry, A. Lijewska). International Congress of Linguists, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (8-14 September 2024).
  • "A self-paced reading investigation of cross-linguistic influence in L3 Norwegian" [Poster presentation] (A. Skałba, S. Żychliński, M. Wrembel). International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (29-31 August 2024).
  • "Cross Linguistic Influence in L3 acquisition: Do dominance and recency play a role?" [Poster presentation] (C. Castle, A. Skałba, M. Westergaard), EuroSLA 33, University of Montpellier, France (3-7 July 2024).
  • "Cognitive consequences of multilingualism and age in the processing of markedness and ungrammaticality in L1" (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel), 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (29 August – 1 September 2023).
  • "Does cross-linguistic similarity play a role in reading? A self-paced reading study with Polish-English-Norwegian multilinguals" (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel), Poznań Linguistic Meeting 2023, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (13-15 September 2023).
  • "Cross-linguistic influence in multilinguals: Do dominance and recency play a role?" (C. Castle, A. Skałba, M. Westergaard), Poznań Linguistic Meeting 2023, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (13-15 September 2023).
  • "Can grammatical tenses be primed across languages? The case of the English present perfect and the French passé composé", 8th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (19-21 May 2023).
  • “Syntactic CLI in a longitudinal study on L3 Norwegian among L1 Polish – L2 English speakers” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski), Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, King’s College London, England (22-23 October 2022).
  • “Le (non)transfert des temps verbaux formellement équivalents chez des apprenants francophones d’anglais”, GeRoSLA – Acquisition L2 de catégories linguistiques et cognitives non équivalentes en langues romanes et germaniques: le transfert revisité, University of Salzburg, Austria (29-30 September 2022).
  • “Shared syntax in the multilingual mind: Evidence from language comprehension by Polish-English-French speakers”, 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 8-10 September 2022.
  • “The role of TIME and CONDITION in syntactic CLI – a report on a longitudinal study” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski), 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (8-10 September 2022).
  • “Gradient acceptability and language proficiency as factors in L3 acquisition of syntax” (S. Żychliński, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski, A. Skałba), 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bucharest, Romania (24-27 August 2022).
  • "Que peut révéler la traduction de la représentation mentale des structures syntaxiques? Le cas du passé composé et du present perfect", 8e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, University of Orléans, France (4-8 July 2022).
  • “The organisation of grammatical tenses in the bilingual mind: English present perfect and French passé composé” [poster presentation], 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (16-19 September 2021).
  • “Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind” [poster presentation], 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (23-25 April 2021).
  • “The organisation of grammatical tenses in a bilingual mind: Predictions based on existing observational and experimental data”, The International Emerging Scholars Online Conference GLOBAL – LOCAL – GLOCAL in Anglophone Literature, Culture, and Linguistics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland (26-27 March 2021).
  • “The representation of initial vowels: Is French similar to English or Polish?”, 13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (12-14 December 2019).

Other talks and presentations

  • “Les processus sous-jacents à la production et à la compréhension du langage chez des personnes francophones apprenant l’anglais”, Séminaire Acquisition & Psycholinguistique, University of Paris 8, France (5 December 2022).
  • Invited speaker on the ”Bilingualism, Migration, and Identity” panel discussion of 1st EPICamp on ”Mobility, Migration, Multilingualism: Shaping European Identities and Languages in Past and Present”, University of Freiburg, Germany (15-16 October 2021).
  • “Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind”, WA GradTalks, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (28 May 2021).
  • “Cross-language differences in hiatus resolution”, WA GradTalks (31 January 2020).

Organisational work

  • Head of School of Languages and Literatures PhD Student Council, 2021-2022.
  • Member of Faculty of English PhD Student Council, 2020-2021.
  • Discussion moderator at Język w Poznaniu, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland,  23 October 2020.
  • Student helper at History of English Language in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 23-24 November 2019.
  • Student helper at 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 16-18 September 2019.
  • Student helper at 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 23-25 November 2018.