drHanna Kędzierska

Hanna Kędzierska
Postdoc (Adiunkt – stażysta podoktorski)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English philology, Wrocław, 2015
  • M.A. in English philology, Wrocław, 2017
  • PhD in linguistics (with distinction), Wrocław 2022

Research interests

  • Speech processing and production
  • Figurative language (idioms, irony)
  • Semantics and pragmatics
  • Foreign-accented speech

Teaching experience

  • Introduction to linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Descriptive Grammar
  • Practical English

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 2021, September. The Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland [online]. Poznan Linguistic Meeting. “Accent familiarity influences template matching mechanisms: ERP evidence from Polish” [poster presentation]
  • 2021, May. UiT The Arctic University of Norway [online]. The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference. “When the foreign accent does not sound foreign: The processing of non-native speech reflected in the ERPs”
  • 2020, September. University of Potsdam, Germany [online]. 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP). “The mechanisms of anticipation during the processing of foreign-accented speech: A comparison between familiar and unfamiliar foreign accents”
  • 2020, September. The Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland [online]. Fifth Interlinguistic Symposium, “How does foreign accent affect our ability to predict? ERP evidence from Polish”
  • 2019, August. Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Chania, Greece. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, “Hemispheric asymmetries in the processing of opaque compounds: A cross-modal priming evidence from Polish (L1) and English (L2)” [joint presentation with Krzysztof Hwaszcz]
  • 2019, April. Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic. International Conference Linguistics Prague, “Semantic predictability in non-native speech: ERP evidence from Polish”
  • 2018, November. University of Göttingen, Germany. Colloquium: Linguistics in Göttingen — A platform for empirical and theoretical linguistics (invited talk), “How does context influence the recognition of idioms?”
  • 2018, June. Palacký University, Olomouc, The Czech Republic. Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), “The rise of an indefinite article in Polish: A corpus-based study” [joint poster presentation with Krzysztof Hwaszcz]
  • 2018, April. Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic, International Conference Linguistics Prague, “The influence of syntactic flexibility on the production of Polish idioms” [joint presentation with Joanna Błaszczak, Piotr Gulgowski, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, and Wojciech Witkowski]
  • 2017, December. University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) 12.5, “The role of context in idiom production: An online cloze response study of Polish idioms” [joint presentation with Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Piotr Gulgowski, and Joanna Błaszczak]
  • 2017, July. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (the Department of Slavonic Studies). Colloquium: Slavic Linguistics, “The role of context in idiom production: An online cloze response study”
  • 2017, February. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (the Department of Slavonic Studies). Colloquium: Slavic Linguistics, “Idioms: Compositionality, classifications and major processing models”

Research grants

  • As co-Investigator: 2022 – 2024. Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism (ADIM), NCN GRIEG-1 (UMO-2019/34/H/HS2/00495), PI: prof. UAM dr hab. Magdalena Wrembel
  • As co-Investigator: 2018–2019. The perception and processing of foreign accent from a German-Polish perspective, DAAD, PPP Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange, Principal Investigators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Dr Marzena Żygis PD (Leibniz-ZAS & Humboldt University of Berlin)
  • As co-Investigator: 2017–2018. Linguistic predictions in context: Collocations and selection from a psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic perspective, DAAD, PPP Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange, Principal Investigators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Prof. Roland Meyer (Humboldt University of Berlin)
  • 2017-2019. Participation in three UWr grants (in two as a principal investigator)