Websites / Profiles

• AMU Research Portal (OMEGA PSiR)
• ORCID

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

• Segmental phonology and prosody
• Contrastive morphonotactics (English, German, Polish, Russian)
• Word stress and its learnability
• Distributed semantics
• Computational and machine-learning techniques (embeddings, LDA, LDL, t-SNE)
• Psycholinguistic and articulatory experimental methods (reaction times, EEG, USG)
• Affix ordering
• 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)
• Phonological theories
• 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

• Empirical methods II: A course on statistics, University of Tübingen, Apr-Sep 2023
• Understanding and Modelling Linguistic Variability Summer School, University of Potsdam, 21-25 Aug 2023
• Spring training in experimental psycholinguistics, University of Alberta, 12-17 Jun 2023
• Julia for Absolute Beginners, DataCamp, online, 2 Nov 2022
• Workshop on Laboratory Methods in Linguistics, ZAS, Berlin, 11-12 Oct 2022
• Human Subjects Research Course, Indiana University, Bloomington, 17 Oct 2021
• Praca ze studentami w spektrum autyzmu, AMU, Poznań, 2 Mar 2021
• CHANSE: Transformations: Social and cultural dynamics in the digital age, ERC, online, 1 Mar 2021
• workshop on grant application Tydzień Wnioskodawców, RPK - Lublin, online, 14-21 Oct 2020
• Autoplagiat – fakty i mity. Zagadnienia prawa autorskiego, Fundacja Science Watch Polska, online, 8 Oct 2020
• Jak przygotować się do oceny projektu w ramach programów H2020, RPK - Kraków, online, 8 Oct 2020
• Cyfrowy UAM, AMU, online, 5 Oct 2020
• 3 Z dla Kariery! Zmobilizuj - się. Zaplanuj - mobilność. Zdobądź – grant unijny!, RPK - Poznań, AMU, 2 Apr 2020
• Data Science with MATLAB, online, 12 Mar 2020
• Usłyszymy się nawzajem. Perspektywa wykładowcy a perspektywa studenta na zajęciach z osobami z wadą słuchu, AMU, 9 Mar 2020
• How to use social media for communicating research, Kudos, online, 27 Feb 2020
• Szkolenie z panelu HS2 NCN, online, 26 Jan 2020
• Szkolenie z efektów uczenia się, konstrukcji wniosku o nowy kierunek studiów oraz budowy sylabusów, AMU, 15 Jan 2020
• What is Neurolanguage Coaching? Efficient Language Coaching, online, 22 Oct 2019
• Wprowadzenie do Design Thinking, PWN, online, 24 Sep 2019
• Surfing the brainwaves: Workshop on EEG data analysis in linguistics, PLM, Poznań, 17 Sep 2019
• Poczuj Niepełnosprawność: Czyli savoir-vivre w kontakcie z osobami z niepełnosprawnością, AMU, 11 Jan 2019
• Tworzenie dostępnych treści e-learningowych dla osób z niepełnosprawnościami, AMU, 17 May 2018
• Miliony za pomysły! Granty Europejskiej Rady ds. Badań Naukowych na twórcze i nowatorskie pomysły badawcze, RPK - Poznań, 11 Oct 2017
• Zostań ekspertem Komisji Europejskiej! RPK - Poznań, 29 Mar 2017
• ERC Day, RPK - Wrocław, 14 Nov 2016
• a workshop on diachronic phonotactics, University of Vienna, 17-20 Feb 2015, 28-30 Sep 2015
• Corpus-based historical morphonotactics: (Theory,) methods and data analysis, AMU, 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
• Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum

Ad-hoc peer reviewer

Journals

• Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
• Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
• Language and Speech
• Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Languages
• Journal of Germanic Linguistics
• Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik

Books

• The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics
• The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
• The University of Warsaw Press
• Routledge

Projects

• The European Research Council

Other professional experience

AMU

• Coordinator, M.A. Program Language, Mind, Technology (2023 – present)
• Member, Faculty Council for Study Programs [Rada Programowa Grupy Kierunków Studiów] (2019 – 2020; 2024 – 2028)
• Acting Head, Neuroscience of Language Laboratory (2019 – 2021)
• Member, Dean's Council [Rada Dziekańska] (2019 – 2021)
• Acting Coordinator, B.A. 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

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

Germany

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

Scholarships and short grants

• Return fellowship (12 months), The Humboldt Foundation, 2024/2025
• 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

• The role of phonological features in phonotactics: A study in structure and learnability of consonant clusters in Slavic and Germanic language, PI

National Science Centre, Poland (no. 2015/18/E/HS2/00066)
completed: 2016 – 2022

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

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

• Evolution of consonant clusters in English, Co-I

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

• Phonotactics and morphonotactics of Polish and English: Theory, description, tools and applications, Co-I

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, Co-I

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

• Word Stress: Rules and Representations, Co-I

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

• CLSP: Polish Literacy Tutor, Co-I

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

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

• 20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Verona, 10-12 Sep 2025 (2 papers)
• 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Mainz, 4-7 Mar 2025
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educational sphere: Challenges and evolution, Almaty, 14 Mar 2025 (plenary)
• 21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, 8-14 Sep 2024
• 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Seoul, 27-29 Jun 2024 (poster)
• Life-long learning paradigm in the system of Kazakhstani education for sustainable development: practice and perspectives, Almaty, 16 Mar 2024 (plenary)
• Words in the World International Conference, online, 1-2 Dec 2023 (poster)
• 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, 7-11 Aug 2023 (poster)
• 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, 25-27 May 2023
• FASL 32: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Bloomington (IN), 19-21 May 2023
• AvH Networking Meeting, Mainz, 19-21 Apr 2023 (poster)
• Globally Interconnected: New Opportunities and Challenges for Linguistic Development, Almaty, 16 Mar 2023 (plenary)
• 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 8-10 Sep 2022 (2 papers)
• Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages, Tübingen, 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 Jul 2021
• The 2nd International Conference on Multilingualism: Challenges, Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Implications, Ait Melloul, 20-21 Nov 2019
• 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 16-18 Sep 2019
• 14th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Potsdam, 11-13 Sep 2019
• Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics, Lublin, 21-23 Jun 2019
• 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, Lecce, 17-19 Jun 2019
• 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Poznań, 13-16 Jun 2018 (2 posters)
• 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, Zurich, 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 (OH), 10-12 Jun 2008 (2 papers)
• 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 13-16 Sep 2007
• 2nd Student Conference on Formal Linguistics, 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

Invited/guest talks

• Polish phonology and morphology through the lens of distributional semantics, Tübingen, 2025 (with H. Baayen)
• Polish phonology and morphology through the lens of distributional semantics, York/Düsseldorf/Tübingen (online), 2025 (with H. Baayen)
• Predicting the unpredictable: On stress pattern and syllable structure in English, Potsdam, 2024
• Prosodic distance determines onset complexity, Tübingen, 2023
• Effects of morphology on consonant assimilation: Evidence from ultrasound imaging, Tübingen, 2023
• The relationship between phonotactic complexity and word stress in Russian and English, Dallas (TX), 2023 (with J. Mołczanow, M. Jankowski, W. Wołyński)
• 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 (IN), 2021
• Principles and features in phonotactics, Bloomington (IN), 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 (with 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

• Noc Anglistów, AMU, Poznań, Nov 2024
• XVIII Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, AMU, Poznań, Apr 2016
• XX Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, AMU, Poznań, Apr 2018
• Dzień Promocji Studiów SNJL, School of Languages and Literatures, AMU, 5 Jun 2021

Conference / Workshop Organization:

• Member of the Organizing Committee: The 21st International Congress of Linguists, 8-14 Sep 2024
• 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 and prizes

• 2020, recognition award, Faculty of English, AMU
• 2018, Rector of AMU reward for outstanding research results
• 2016, award for the best conference poster, 4th Meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within, Lublin
• 2005 – 2008, Faculty award for research results, AMU