dr hab., prof. UAMPaula Orzechowska

Paula Orzechowska

nieobecna cały rok 2022/2023

University professor

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań 2003
  • M.A. in English, Poznań 2004
  • Ph.D. in English Linguistics, Poznań 2009
  • D.Litt in English Linguistics, Poznań 2020

Research interests

  • Phonology
  • Morphonology (esp. morphonotactics)
  • Contrastive phonotactics (esp. English, Polish, German, Russian)
  • Brain plasticity and learnability of phonology
  • Phonological acquisition
  • Neuro- and psycholinguistic experimental methods
  • Affix ordering
  • Elements of formal methods in linguistics
  • Interactive foreign language teaching aids

Teaching experience

Seminars, lectures and other types of classes conducted in Poland, Germany, USA and Morocco; Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, University of Potsdam, Bielefeld University, Indiana University, Ibn Zohr University (Ait Melloul).

  • English phonetics and phonology (practical and theoretical)
  • Contrastive phonetics and phonology (English – German – Polish)
  • Phonological universals and language-specific preferences
  • Introduction to synchronic linguistics
  • Morphophonology and morphology
  • Speech production
  • Generative grammar
  • Aspects of sociolinguistics
  • Spoken and written discourse analysis
  • Practical English at university level: pronunciation, speaking and grammar

Courses and trainings

  • Human Subjects Research Course, Indiana University, 17 Oct 2021
  • Praca ze studentami w spektrum autyzmu, UAM, 2 Mar 2021
  • CHANSE: Transformations: Social and cultural dynamics in the digital age, 1 Mar 2021
  • seria warsztatów Tydzień Wnioskodawców, RPK - Lublin, 14-21 Oct 2020
  • Autoplagiat – fakty i mity. Zagadnienia prawa autorskiego, Fundacja Science Watch Polska, 8 Oct 2020
  • Jak przygotować się do oceny projektu w ramach programów H2020, RPK - Cracow, 8 Oct 2020
  • Cyfrowy UAM, UAM, 5 Oct 2020
  • 3 Z dla Kariery! Zmobilizuj - się. Zaplanuj - mobilność. Zdobądź – grant unijny!, RPK w Poznaniu, 2 Apr 2020
  • Data Science with MATLAB, Mathworks, 12 Mar 2020
  • Usłyszymy się nawzajem. Perspektywa wykładowcy a perspektywa studenta na zajęciach z osobami z wadą słuchu, UAM, 9 Mar 2020
  • How to use social media for communicating research, Kudos, 27 Feb 2020
  • Szkolenie z panelu HS2 NCN, 26 Jan 2020
  • Szkolenie z efektów uczenia się, konstrukcji wniosku o nowy kierunek studiów oraz budowy sylabusów, UAM, 15 Jan 2020
  • What is Neurolanguage Coaching? Efficient Language Coaching, 22 Oct 2019
  • Wprowadzenie do Design Thinking, PWN, 24 Sep 2019
  • Surfing the brainwaves: Workshop on EEG data analysis in linguistics, PLM, 17 Sep 2019
  • Poczuj Niepełnosprawność: Czyli savoir-vivre w kontakcie z osobami z niepełnosprawnością, UAM, 11 Jan 2019
  • Tworzenie dostępnych treści e-learningowych dla osób z niepełnosprawnościami, UAM, 17 May 2018
  • Miliony za pomysły! Granty Europejskiej Rady ds. Badań Naukowych na twórcze i nowatorskie pomysły badawcze, RPK w Poznaniu, 11 Oct 2017
  • Zostań ekspertem Komisji Europejskiej! RPK w Poznaniu, 29 Mar 2017
  • ERC Day, RPK we Wrocławiu, 14 Nov 2016
  • a series of workshops on diachronic phonotactics, University of Vienna, 17-20 Feb 2015, 28-30 Sep 2015
  • Corpus-based historical morphonotactics: (Theory,) methods and data analysis, UAM, 21-22 Nov 2014
  • PPP Phonology, Phonetics, Praat, University of Potsdam, 6-8 Dec 2012
  • Workshop on Pre- and Protomorphology, University of Vienna, 12-13 Feb 2010
  • Eastern Generative Grammar Summer School, Olomouc, Jul 2006; Brno, Aug 2007

Professional organizations

  • Linguistic Society of America
  • Slavic Linguistic Society
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea

Peer reviewer for publishers

  • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
  • Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
  • Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
  • The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
  • The University of Warsaw Press

Other professional experience

AMU

  • Acting Head of the Neuroscience of Language Laboratory (2019 – 2021)
  • Member, Dean's Council [Rada Dziekańska] (2019 – 2021)
  • Member, Faculty Council for Study Programs [Rada Programowa Grupy Kierunków Studiów] (2019 - 2020)
  • Acting Coordinator of the BA Program English Linguistics: Theories, Interfaces, Technologies (2019 - 2020)
  • Member, Committee for Faculty and Institute Promotion (2008 - 2010)
  • Reviewer, Award of the Head of the IFA for Outstanding B.A. and M.A. Theses (2009)

Poland

  • Book reviewer (The University of Warsaw Press, 2021)
  • Professional advancement reviewer (University of Warsaw, 2021)
  • Voice-actor, coursebooks for Polish learners of English (2005 – present)

Other

  • Chair for Present-day English Language and Linguistics, Department of English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam (2011 – 2013)

Scholarships and short grants

  • research fellowship (18 months), The Humboldt Foundation, Philipps-Universität Marburg / Universität Tübingen, 2022/2023
  • research grant (4 months), The Kosciuszko Foundation Exchange Program to the United States, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2021/2022
  • teaching grant (1 week), The Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus Staff Mobility, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 2016
  • research grant (2 weeks), AMU: A Unique Graduate = Possibilities, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Universität Potsdam, 2015
  • research grant (2 weeks), NetWordS: European Network on Word Structure: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Understanding Word Structure in the Languages of Europe, Universität Wien, 2015
  • travel grant, 18th International Congress of Linguists (Seoul), Poznański Park Naukowo-Technologiczny, 2008
  • scholarship (1-year), Erasmus-Socrates, Universität Bielefeld, 2005/2006

Research projects

  • Rola cech fonologicznych w fonotaktyce: Badanie struktury i przyswajania zbitek spółgłoskowych w językach słowiańskich i germańskich

National Science Centre, Poland (no. 2015/18/E/HS2/00066)
in progress: May 2016 - September 2019
function: project head

  • Evolution of consonant clusters in English

Austrian Science Fund (no. P 27592)
completed: 2014-2016

  • Fonotaktyka i morfonotaktyka języka polskiego i angielskiego: opis, narzędzia i zastosowania

National Science Centre, Poland (no. N N104 382540)
completed: 2011-2012

  • Das Schicksal von Schwa: Interaktion von Prosodie und Morphologie in der Geschichte des Deutschen

LOEWE-Entwicklungsschwerpunkt Konstanz und Wandel in der Sprache
completed: 2011

  • Word Stress: Rules and Representations

DFG - Priority Programme 1234: Phonological and Phonetic Competence (no. WI853/7-2)
completed: 2011

  • Aspects of inflection and derivation in English and German: Towards gradience and integrity of morphological components

DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service (no. A0981550)
completed: 2010-2011

  • CLSP: Polish Literacy Tutor

Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (no. N519 01 631/2965)
completed: 2010-2011

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 8-10 Sep 2022 (2 papers)
  • Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages, 14-16 Jul 2022 (poster)
  • 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington DC, 6-9 Jan 2022 (1 paper, 1 poster)
  • 5th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv (online), 5-7 July 2021
  • The 2nd International Conference on Multilingualism: Challenges, Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Implications, Ait Melloul (Morocco), 20-21 Nov 2019
  • 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 16-18 Sep 2019
  • Slavic Linguistic Society Meeting, Potsdam, 11-13 Sep 2019
  • Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics, Lublin, 21-23 June 2019
  • 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, Lecce, 17-19 June 2019
  • 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Poznań, 13-16 Jun 2018 (2 papers)
  • 47th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 18-20 Sep 2017 (2 papers)
  • 15th Meeting of the French Phonology Network, Grenoble, 5-7 Jul 2017
  • 4th Meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within, Lublin, 20-21 Oct 2016 (poster)
  • 3rd International Workshop on Phonotactics and Phonotactic Modeling, Vienna, 26-27 Sep 2015
  • 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 17-19 Sep 2015 (2 papers)
  • 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznań, 11-14 Sep 2014
  • Phonetik und Phonologie 9, Zürich, 11-12 Oct 2013
  • 43rd PLM, Poznań, 8-10 Sep 2012 (1 paper, 1 poster)
  • 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, 24-26 May 2012 (poster)
  • 9th Old World Conference in Phonology, Berlin, 18-21 Jan 2012
  • Phonetik und Phonologie 7, Osnabrück, 7-8 Oct 2011
  • 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21 Aug 2011
  • 42nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 1-3 May 2011
  • 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010
  • Monosyllables: From Phonology to Typology, Bremen, 28-30 Sep 2009
  • 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisbon, 9-12 Sep 2009
  • XI Międzynarodowa Konferencja Młodych Naukowców, Pobierowo, 16-18 Apr 2009
  • 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, 21-26 Jul 2008
  • 3rd Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 10-12 Jun 2008 (2 papers)
  • 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 13-16 Sep 2007
  • SCoFL 2, Poznań, 21-22 Apr 2007
  • 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 20-23 Apr 2006
  • Workshop on Models of L1 and L2 Phonetics/Phonology, Utrecht, 8-9 Nov 2005 (poster)
  • 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 22-24 Apr 2005
  • 36th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, Mainz, 17-24 Nov 2004
  • 1st Student Conference on Formal Linguistics, Poznań, 19 Sep 2004

(Guest) talks

  • A dynamic approach to feature weight in phonotactics: From the structure of the lexicon to processing , Marburg, 2022
  • How is phonological judgement different from phonological learning: Evidence from RT and ERP studies, Bloomington, 2021
  • Principles and features in phonotactics, Bloomington, 2021
  • Complexity in Polish Phonotactics, Poznań, 2021
  • Study and research perspectives in Europe, Ait Melloul, 2018
  • Prinzipien oder Frequenz? Experimente zur Verarbeitung von Konsonantenclustern,  Saarbrücken, 2018 (with: R. Wiese, E. Starikova, P. Alday, C. Ulbrich)
  • English phonotactics: A-feature-based approach, Paris, 2016
  • Features in phonotactics: The case of Slavic and Germanic languages, Vienna, 2015
  • Prinzipien oder Frequenz? Experimente zur Verarbeitung von Konsonantenclustern, Frankfurt am Main, 2015
  • Principles or usage? Experiments on the processing of consonant clusters, Poznań, 2015 (with: R. Wiese, E. Starikova, P. Alday, C. Ulbrich)
  • Role of phonological features in phonotactics: A cross-linguistic perspective, Poznań, 2015
  • Why is /faktS/ easier to learn for Poles than Germans? An ERP study on the learnability of word-final phonotactics, Poznań, 2014 (with: R. Wiese, C. Ulbrich, P. Allday)
  • Learnability and neural processing of phonotactics: Evidence from ERP data, Poznań, 2014 (with: R. Wiese, C. Ulbrich)
  • (Mor)phonotactics of Polish and English: Description, tools and applications, Poznań, 2014 (with: K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, P. Zydorowicz, M. Jankowski, P. Wierzchoń, D. Pietrala)
  • Das phonologische Wort als linguistische Basiskategorie: Grenzmarkierungen, Marburg, 2014 (with: R. Wiese, C. Ulbrich)
  • Grenzmarkierungen von Wort und Fuß, Marburg, 2013 (with: R. Wiese, C. Ulbrich)
  • Lernbarkeit finaler Konsonantencluster: Cross-linguistische EEG Evidenz von Sonorität, Existenz und Artikulationstellen-Distanz, Marburg 2013 (R. Wiese, C. Ulbrich, J. Knaus)
  • Online processing of word stress in Polish: An ERP study, Poznań, 2013
  • New horizons of research on consonant clusters, Poznań, 2013 (with: K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, M. Jankowski, P. Wierzchoń, P. Zydorowicz, D. Pietrala)
  • Reconstructing the Sonority Hierarchy: Word-initial consonants clusters in German and Polish, Marburg, 2011 (with R. Wiese)
  • Affix ordering in German, Marburg, 2011
  • Morphonology of monosyllables. Coda structure in German, English and Polish, Marburg, 2010

Other talks

  • XVIII Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Apr 2016
  • XX Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Apr 2018
  • Dzien Promocji Studiów SNJL, School of Languages and Literatures, AMU, 5 Jun 2021

Conference / Workshop Organization:

  • Member of the Organizing Committee: 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 22-24 April 2005
  • Co-organizer of the PPP Workshop: Phonology – Phonetics – Praat, Potsdam, 6-8 Dec 2012
  • The Sound Structure of English, workshop for students, Poznań, 24-25 Mar 2021

Awards

  • 2018, Rector of UAM reward for outstanding research results
  • 2016, award for the best conference poster, 4th Meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within, Lublin