drEwelina Wojtkowiak

Ewelina Wojtkowiak
Adiunktka (Assistant professor)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • BA in English, Poznań 2014
  • MA in English, Poznań 2016
  • PhD in English Linguistics (summa cum laude), Poznań 2022

Research interests

  • Onset Prominence representational model
  • Phonetics and phonology interface
  • Feature theory
  • Feature geometry
  • Acoustic phonetics

Teaching experience

  • English Phonetics and Phonology
  • EFL - communicative practice, writing, integrated skills, practical phonetics
  • Lab- and fieldwork-oriented research practice (experimental phonetics and phonology)
  • Laboratory methods in linguistics

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 1st International Interdisciplinary Student Conference in English Linguistics, Literature, and Culture (StuKAn 2016), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 30 September – 2 October 2016
  • Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics (APAP2017), UMCS & KUL, Lublin, 23–25 June 2017 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2017), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 18–20 September 2017 (delivered by Geoff Schwartz)
  • 11th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2017), University of Łódź, 30 November – 2 December 2017 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm26), University of Edinburgh and University of Manchester, Manchester, 24-26 May 2018 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz and Daria Arndt)
  • The 11th Conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 11), Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 11-13 October 2018 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2018), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 23-25 November 2018
  • 12th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2018), University of Łódź, 29 November - 1 December 2018 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz and Jerzy Dzierla)
  • 16th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP2019), University of Verona, 16-18 January 2019 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics (APAP2019), KUL & UMCS, Lublin, 21-23 June 2019
  • 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2019), Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 August 2019 (2 papers; one with Geoff Schwartz and Bartosz Brzoza; one with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2019), Poznań, Poland, 16-18 September 2019
  • 13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2019), University of Łódź, 12-14 December 2019 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 17th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP2020), University of Warsaw, 5-7 February 2020
  • Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics (APAP2021), UMCS & KUL, Lublin, 24-25 June 2021
  • 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2021), Poznań, Poland, 16-19 September 2021
  • 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2022), University of Barcelona, 20-22 April 2022(two papers, both co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 15th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2022), University of Łódź, 8-10 December 2022 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 20th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP2023), University of Tours, France, 25-27 January 2023 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz)
  • 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm30), University of Edinburgh and University of Manchester, Manchester, 25-27 May 2023 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz, Kamil Kaźmierski, and Zuzanna Cal; delivered by Geoff Schwartz and Kamil Kaźmierski)
  • Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics (APAP2023), KUL & UMCS, Lublin, 24-25.06.2023 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz, Maral Asiaee, and Kamil Kaźmierski)
  • 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023), Prague, the Czech Republic, 7-11 August 2023 (2 papers; one with Geoff Schwartz and Maral Asiaee)
  • Aarhus International Conference on Voice Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 17-18 August 2023 (two papers; both co-authored with Geoff Schwartz, Maral Asiaee, and Kamil Kaźmierski; delivered by Maral Asiaee and Kamil Kaźmierski)
  • 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2023), Poznań, Poland, 13-15.09.2023
  • 16th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2022), University of Łódź, 30 November-1 December 2023 (co-authored with Nate Sadursk and Geoff Schwartz)
  • 2nd International Conference on Voice Identity (VoiceID), Marburg, Germany, 28-30 August 2024 (two posters; both co-authored with Geoff Schwartz, Maral Asiaee, Kamil Kaźmierski, and Rafia Canyurt)
  • 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL2024, Poznań, Poland, 8-14.09.2024 (co-authored with Geoff Schwartz, Maral Asiaee, and Kamil Kaźmierski)

Other talks and presentations

  • Phon&Phon, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, January 2017
  • Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, February 2017 (with Daria Arndt, Iga Krzysik, and Halina Lewandowska)
  • XX Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, April 2017 (with Daria Arndt and Iga Krzysik)
  • Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, May 2017
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, September 2017 (with Daria Arndt and Iga Krzysik)
  • Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, December 2017 (Transcription workshops for 1BA students; with Daria Arndt, Halina Lewandowska, and Iga Krzysik)
  • "Czy można zapisać dźwięki języka? Warsztaty z transkrypcji fonetycznej" – workshops for high school students (with Iga Krzysik), Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of English, Poznań, December 2017
  • Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, January 2018
  • "50 years of The Sound Pattern of English: workshops for BA and MA students” - Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, November 2018
  • Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, March 2019
  • Public PhD project presentation assessed by prof. Charles B. Chang (Boston University), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, March 2019
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, September 2019 (with Joanna Maciąg and Iga Krzysik)
  • Phontastic, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, December 2019 (with Alona Kononenko-Szoszkiewicz)
  • GradTalks, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, January 2020
  • Phon&Phon, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, March 2021
  • Phon&Phon, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, January 2023

Attended workshops

  • Statistics for Experimental Linguistics at Utrecht Summer School, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 2018
  • “Doing your PhD: Thinking, doing and writing” by prof. Jane Sunderland, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, March/April 2019
  • ”Praca ze studentami z trudnościami natury psychicznej i poznawczej” by Bas van der Ham and Szymon Hejmanowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, December 2020
  • "Do cross-language phonetic relationships provide a full account of L2 speech learning problems? The role of universal phonetic biases and generalized sensitivities in nonnative speech perception" by Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, January 2021
  • "Praca ze studentami z niepełnosprawnością wzrokową, słuchową, ruchową - praktyczne wskazówki do prowadzenia zajęć dla wykładowców i doktorantów" by Beata Tylewska- Nowak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, January 2021
  • "Praca ze studentami ze spektrum autyzmu" by Aneta Wojciechowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, March 2021

Editorial

  • Assistant Editor, Yearbook of the 47th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 2017-2018
  • Assistant Editor, Yearbook of the 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (special issue on modern phonetic research and phonological representations - a new outlook on an old controversy), 2019-2020
  • Assistant to the Editor, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL), 2021-currently
  • Assistant Editor, Yearbook of the 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 2023-2024

Organiser of international conferences

  • 47th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2017), Poznań, Poland, 18-20 September, 2017 – Member of the Organising Committee
  • 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2019), Poznań, Poland, 16-18 September 2019 - session on "Modern phonetic research and phonological representations - a new outlook on an old controversy”  (co-organised with Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk)
  • 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2021), Poznań, Poland, 16-19 September, 2021 – Member of the Organising Committee
  • 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2023), Poznań, Poland, 13-15 September 2023 - Member of the Organising Committee
  • 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL2024), Poznań, Poland, 8-14 September 2024 - Assistant to the Organising Committee
  • 9th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP2025) - Poznań, Poland, 16-18 May - Member of the Organising Committee

Professional organisations

  • Societas Linguistica Europaea
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Fonetyczne (Polish Phonetic Association) - Member of the Main Control Board (2023-2027)

Research projects

  • Modulation in laryngeal features – evidence from Polish learners of English. National Science Centre, grant nr UMO-2016/21/B/HS2/00610. Principal Investigator: prof. UAM dr hab. Geoffrey Schwartz
  • Prosodically-conditioned phonetic variation in Polish, grant nr 2015/19/N/HS2/03395. Principal Investigator.
  • Consonant Synchronicity in Polish and English. National Science Centre, grant nr 2018/29/B/HS2/00088; Coordinator of production data collection and analysis; Principal Investigator: prof. UAM dr hab. Geoffrey Schwartz
  • Phonation in L1 and L2 speech. National Science Centre, grant nr UMO-2021/41/B/HS2/00239, Principal Investigator: prof. Dr hab. Geoffrey Schwartz

Honours

  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for outstanding PhD students: 2019/2020
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for the 30% best PhD students: 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for outstanding PhD students: 2020/2021
  • AMU Rector’s Prize for teaching excellence - 2024