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Personal Information Paula Orzechowska
Official Name & Address
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Paula Orzechowska, Ph.D. Philipps-Universität Marburg |
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Positions
| since 2009: | University Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| 2021-2022 | Fellowship (The Kosciuszko Foundation), Indiana University |
| 2021: | Habilitation (D.Litt.), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| 2011-2013 | Chair professor (W3), Universität Potsdam |
| 2010-2011 | Post doc (DAAD), Philipps-Universität Marburg |
| 2009: | Dissertation (Ph.D.), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
Summary of research interests
My research interests are in phonetics and phonology, with particular emphasis on (mor)phonotactics and word stress of Slavic and Germanic languages. I have investigated the prosodic complexity of, among others, English, German, Polish and Russian in relation to markedness principles, morphological structure and frequency. Empirical studies have used psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods (reaction times, electroencephalography) and kinematic measures of articulation (ultrasound imaging).
Selected publications
Monographs:
- Orzechowska, P. 2019. Complexity in Polish Phonotactics: On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences. Singapore: Springer.
- Zydorowicz P., P. Orzechowska, M. Jankowski, K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, P. Wierzchoń, and D. Pietrala. 2016. Phonotactics and morphonotactics of Polish and English: Theory, description, toolds and applications. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM.
Selected journal papers:
- Orzechowska, P. and K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. Gradient phonotactics and frequency: A study of German initial clusters. Italian Journal of Linguistics (in press 2022).
- Orzechowska, P., and P. Zydorowicz. 2019. “Frequency effects and markedness in phonotactics”, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 55(1), 157–179.
- Orzechowska, P., J. Mołczanow, and M. Jankowski. 2019. “Prosodically-conditioned syllable structure in English”, Research in Language 17(1): 1-12.
- Wiese R., P. Orzechowska, P. Alday, and C. Ulbrich. 2017. “Structural principles or frequency of use? An ERP experiment on the learnability of Polish consonant clusters”, Frontiers in Psychology – Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience 7: 2005.
- Ulbrich, C., J. Knaus, P. Orzechowska, P. Alday, and R. Wiese. 2016. “The role of phonotactic principles in language processing”, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31(5): 662-682.
- Orzechowska, P., and R. Wiese. 2015. “Preferences and variation in word-initial phonotactics: a multi-dimensional evaluation of German and Polish”, Folia Linguistica 49(2), 439-486.
- Domahs, U., J. Knaus, P. Orzechowska, and R. Wiese. 2012. “Stress 'deafness' in a language with fixed word stress: an ERP study on Polish”, Frontiers in Psychology 3: 439, 1-15.