Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

Profesor ordinarius
Head of the School of English

Department of Contemporary English Language

Office: Collegium Novum, room 607A
Phone: (0-61) 829 3507
e-mail: dkasia@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Web page: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~dkasia/
Duty hours: link

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 1983
  • Ph.D. in English, Poznań, 1988
  • D.Litt. in English linguistics, Poznań, 1995
  • Full professor (the title of professor), 4 Jun 2003
  • Professor Ordinarius, 1 Jul 2004

Research interests

  • Theoretical phonology and phonetics
  • Natural Phonology
  • Contrastive phonology (English, Polish, German)
  • First and second language acquisition
  • The syllable
  • Beats-and-Binding Phonology
  • Phonostylistics
  • Morphology
  • Morphonology and morphonotactics
  • Interconnections between phonology and morphology in language acquisition
  • Applications of natural speech processing in literacy and language training
  • Interfaces between linguistics and technology, linguistics and speech therapy

Teaching experience

  • Lectures, M.A. and Ph.D. seminars, classes of various types conducted in English or German at Adam Mickiewicz University, Universität Wien and other institutions
  • Phonetics and phonology (general, theoretical, of English, of Polish, contrastive)
  • History of phonology
  • Natural Phonology
  • Contrastive linguistics
  • First and second language acquisition
  • Phonostylistics
  • Morphophonology
  • Beats-and-Binding Phonology
  • The syllable
  • Practical English at university level
  • Practical Polish as a foreign language
  • Dialects of Polish

Other professional experience

  • As of 1 Sep 2005, Head of the AMU School of English (2005–2008 term)
  • As of 1 Sep 2008, Head of the AMU School of English (2008–2012 term)
  • Founder (1 Feb 2005) and Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Speech and Language Processing at AMU
  • Deputy Director for research, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1996–1999
  • First Deputy, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1999–2002, 2002–2005
  • Ceepus (Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies) coordinator at the School of English: project A-22 Vienna–Budapest–Kraków–Poznań
  • Socrates coordinator at the AMU Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures
  • Poznań coordinator of the International Project on the Acquisition of Pre- and Protomorphology, run by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang U. Dressler, University of Vienna
  • Partner in the bilateral project of Polish Academy of Sciences and Austrian Academy of Sciences for the years 1999–2003: Comparative research on first language acquisition in Polish and German: Pre- and protomorphology

Professional organizations

  • EUROSLA
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Fonetyczne (Polish Phonetic Association): Head of the Poznań Division 1997–2001
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea (nominated member of the Publications Committee)
  • Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
  • International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)
  • International Phonetic Association (IPA)
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze
  • Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polsko-Brytyjskiej
  • European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
  • Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Akademickich Filologii Angielskiej (PASE)
  • University College London (UCL) Alumni Network
  • International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE)
  • Polskie Stowarzyszenie Stypendystów Fulbrighta (Polish Association of Fulbright Scholars, PAFS)
  • International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne (PTN)

Editorial

  • Assistant to the editors of Studia Phonetica Posnaniensia (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM), 1987–1990
  • Editor-in-Chief of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL; formerly Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics), since 1999
  • 1996. Naturalness within and across components. Guest-edited volume of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), vol. 49(3). Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH. Pp. 225–332 (=107 pp.).
  • 1997. Pre- and protomorphology in language acquisition. Guest-edited volume of Papers and Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL), vol. 33. Poznań: AMU Press. Pp. 171.
  • 2000. Co-editor with Stanislaw Puppel. Multis vocibus de lingua. W czterdziestolecie pracy naukowo-dydaktycznej Profesora Jacka Fisiaka (1959–1999). Poznań: Dziekan Wydziału Neofilologii UAM & Motivex.
  • 2001. Constraints and preferences. A selection of papers for the Trends in Linguistics series by Mouton de Gruyter.
  • 2002. Co-editor with Jarosław Weckwerth. Future challenges for Natural Linguistics. Munich: Lincom.
  • 2005. Co-editor with Joanna Przedlacka. English pronunciation models: A changing scene. (Linguistic Insights.) Bern, Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang.
  • 2006. IFAtuation: A Life in IFA. A Festschrift for Prof. Jacek Fisiak on the occasion of his 70th birthday by his IFAtuated staff from The School of English, AMU, Poznań. Poznań: Wydawnictwo UAM.
  • In press. Second priniting. Co-editor with Joanna Przedlacka. English pronunciation models: A changing ccene. (Linguistic Insights.) Bern, Frankfurt a. Main:  Peter Lang
  • 2009. A special issue on Natural Phonology of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL), vol. 45(1). Pp. 189.

Scholarships

  • 1985/1986 one-year post-graduate study at University College London, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics (British Council)
  • 1990 five-week scholarship at the University of London and University of Reading (British Council)
  • 2001/2002 9-months Senior Fulbright Grant, Deparment of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu

Visiting professor

  • Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Wien, spring semester 1998
  • Senior Fulbright Grant, Dept of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu 2001/2002

Visiting lecturer

  • Lecturer at the Institut für Sprachwissenschaft and Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien, 1991–1994
  • Regular seminars at Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien since 1994

Guest lectures

  • University College London, 1986
  • University of Padova, 1988
  • University of Vienna, 1991, 1992
  • University of Trieste, 1993
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1993
  • University of Tromsø, 1996
  • Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, 1997
  • Polish section of the International Phonetic Association, 1997
  • Polish Neophilological Society, 1997
  • Symposium Sprachunterricht – Zwischen Zeitgeist und Wissenschaft, Volkshochschule Brigittenau, Vienna, 1998
  • University of Bielefeld, 2000
  • Dzień Anglisty i Germanisty w WSZ w Koninie, 2000
  • Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i, 2001
  • Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i, 2001
  • Inauguration lecture, Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych, Szczecin, 2002
  • Two invited lectures at the Università Cattolica and Universita' Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 2003
  • Senate of the Adam Mickiewicz University, "Nie pozwólmy zamilknąć głosom Edenu: O wymieraniu języków świata", 2003
  • Vienna, a proseminar (part I), Nov 2003
  • Vienna, a proseminar (part II), Feb 2004
  • Scholarly meeting of the Linguistic Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1 Mar 2004
  • Conference and meeting of the Polish Association of Fulbright Scholars (PSSF), Katowice, 16–17 Mar, 2004
  • Teacher Training College, Szczecin, 18 May 2005
  • Socrates-Erasmus visit and seminar, Vienna, 21–26 Oct 2005
  • Seminar (cont.) (exchange between the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Austrain Academy of Sciences), Vienna, 14–18 January 2006
  • Invited workhop on teaching phonetics and phonology, Teacher Training College Poznań, 22 Jan 2006
  • Two joint presentations, Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Poznań, 11–14 Oct 2006
  • Seminar on the naturalness theory, Vienna, 13–15 Nov 2006
  • Invitation to the "English in India" Dialogue and Debate (a contribution, no visit), 3–6 Jan, Mysore, India
  • Invited lecture in the International Center of Hearing and Speech, "Wirtualni nauczyciele i terapeuci. Przegląd projektów realizowanych w Interdyscyplinarnym Centrum Przetwarzania Mowy i Języka (Center for Speech and Language Processing) przy IFA UAM w Poznaniu, we współpracy z Uniwersytetem Colorado, Boulder", Kajetany near Warsaw, 8 Jan 2007
  • Research visit on the invitation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 13–18 Jan 2007
  • Invited talk "Czy fonologia może byc naturalna", WSHE Łódź, 20 Mar 2007
  • 2nd Student Conference on Formal Linguistics (SCoFL), co-organizer, Poznań, 21–22 Apr 2008
  • Invited talk, University of Bamberg, 23–25 Jan 2008
  • Invited talk Polish Academy of Sciences, 21 Apr 2008
  • Invited talk, English Department, University of Szczecin, 18 May 2009
  • Invited talk, NKJO Kalisz, 19 October 2009
  • Invited talk at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas (Department of Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences), 15 Jan 2010

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 19th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Błażejewko 1983
  • 5th International Phonology Meeting, Eisenstadt, 1984
  • International Conference on Applied Linguistics, Katowice, 1985
  • LAGB Meeting, Norwich, 1986
  • BAAL Conference, Leicester, 1986
  • 23rd International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Błażejewko 1987
  • 11th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Tallinn, 1987
  • 6th International Phonology Meeting, Krems, 1988
  • 17. Jahrestagung Österreichischer Linguisten, Vienna, 1989
  • 25th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Rydzyna 1990
  • New Sounds '90, Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Amsterdam, 1990
  • Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Bern, 1990
  • 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1991
  • 7th International Phonology Meeting, Krems, 1992
  • 20. Jahrestagung Österreichischer Linguisten, Innsbruck, 1992
  • 26th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Rydzyna, 1992
  • International Symposium on "Natürlichkeitstheorie und Sprachwandel", Maribor, 1993
  • Meeting of the Italian and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Rome, 1993
  • 21. Jahrestagung Österreichischer Linguisten, Salzburg, 1993
  • 29th International Conference on Cross-Linguistic Analysis, Świeradów 1995
  • International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, 1995
  • 1st International Project Meeting on the Acquisition of Pre- and Protomorphology, Vienna, 1995
  • 7th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 1996
  • 8th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna, 1996
  • Accents '97, Łódź, 1997
  • New Sounds '97, Symposium on the Acqusition of Second Language Speech, Klagenfurt, 1997
  • XVIth International Congress of Linguists, Paris, 1997
  • 4th International Meeting of the Cross-Linguistic Project on Pre-and Protomorphology in Language Acquistion, Vienna, 1997
  • 31st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 1998
  • International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 1998
  • Z zagadnień prozodii języków słowiańskich, Toruń, 1998
  • I Kongres Neofilologiczny, Łódź, 5–7 Nov 1998
  • Symposium on Received Pronunciation on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the British Council in Poland (speakers: J. Fisiak, P. Trudgill, J. Milroy, J.C. Wells), Poznań, 13 Nov 1998
  • Zjazd Naukowy Polskiego Towarzystwa Fonetycznego nt. Fonetyka lingwistyczna, medyczna i techniczna, Rydzyna, 27–29 Nov 1998
  • (Co-authored with J. Weckwerth and J. Zborowska) Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference (PTLC), UCL London, 14–15 Apr 1999
  • 14th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS), San Francisco, 1–7 Aug 1999
  • (Co-authored with D. Głowacka) A Meeting of the Cross-linguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition, Vienna, Oct 1999
  • Plenary and regular paper (co-authored with J. Weckwerth and J. Zborowska), International Conference on Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology III: Speech '99, Łódź, Dec 1999
  • NAB 2000, Las Vegas, 2000
  • Plenary (with two co-speakers), SLE 2000, Poznań 2000
  • Plenary, New Sounds 2000, Amsterdam, 2000
  • Conference organisation, regular paper and session, PLM2001, Bukowy Dworek, 27–29 Apr 2001
  • Keynote speech, 6th Annual LLL College-Wide Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 20 Apr 2002
  • Scholarly Meeting, IFA Poznań ("The voices of Eden: A Hawaiian evening at IFA"), 2003
  • Conference organisation, organisation of two workshops, two regular papers, PLM 2003, Poznań, 1–3 May 2003
  • Plenary talk, Dydaktyka Języków Obcych, Soczewka, 5–7 May 2003
  • Keynote speech, History of the English Language in Italy (SLIN 2003) ("Historical linguistic studies of spoken English"), Pisa, 5–7 Jun 2003
  • Poster presentation, 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3–9 Aug 2003
  • Eurospeech and Interspeech, Geneva, 1–4 Sep 2003
  • Plenary, Dydaktyka Języków Obcych, Mikorzyn, 9–11 May 2004
  • Plenary; co-organizer of the workshop on English pronunciation dictionaries for foreign learners, PASE Conference, Tarnowo Podgórne, 16–18 May 2004
  • 19th Triennal IAUPE Conference, Vancouver, 8–14 Aug 2004
  • Paper co-authored with Ron Cole, GlobE, Warsaw, 18–20 Sep 2004
  • Plenary, Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne (PTN), Poznań, 27–29 Sep 2004
  • Chair of the phonology session, First Student Conference on Formal Linguistics (SCoFL), Poznań, 28–29 Sep 2004
  • Conference organization and paper co-authored with W.U. Dressler and Daniel Śledziński, 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2005), Poznań, 22–24 Apr 2005
  • Joint plenary with Ron Cole and Grzegorz Krynicki, Dydaktyka Języków Obcych, Soczewka, 25–26 Apr 2005
  • Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, London, 27–30 Jul 2005 
  • MultiLing 2006 (ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9–11 Apr 2006
  • Conference organisation, co-organisation of two sessions and a worksjop, 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2006), Poznań, 20–23 Apr 2006
  • Dydaktyka fonetyki języka obcego VI: metody, techniki i narzędzia, Mikorzyn, 8–10 May 2006
  • 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC (a joint paper presented by a co-author), Genoa, 24–26 May 2006
  • Opening plenary lecture, "English or ELFish? A teaching dilemma of the 21st century", IATEFL Poland Conference, 22–24 Sep 2006
  • Co-organiser, 2nd Student Conference on Formal Linguistics (SCoFL), Poznań, 21–22 Apr 2007
  • Virtual Reality and Cognitive Disability, seminar, a joint talk, Bordeaux, 2–3 May 2007
  • Co-authored poster, 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Saarbrücken, 6–10 August 2007
  • Special session at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS): "Natural Phonology: Universal principles for the study of language (insiders meet outsiders)", organizer, chair, paper, Saarbrücken, 6–10 August 200
  • 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2007), organizer, co-authored paper, session co-organizer, Gniezno, 13–16 Sept 2007
  • New Sounds 2007, Florianópolis, 25–28 November 2007
  • Accents 2007, International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, an invited plenary talk, Łódź, 3–5 December 2007
  • Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Recognition Conference – Applications in Systems for Homeland Security (SASR 2008), a joint talk (delivered by co-author G. Krynicki), Piechowice, Poland, 8-12 September 2008
  • Two papers, 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2008), Gniezno, 11–14 Sept 2008
  • 41st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2008), Forlì, 17–20 Sept 2008
  • 1st Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), Poznań, 24 April 2009
  • 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2009), co-organization of a workshop on English as a Lingua Franca, regular paper, Lisbon, 8–14 Sept 2009
  • Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN), 24–26 Sept 2009, Poznań
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Baltimore, 6–10 January 2010

Organizer of international conferences

  • Variation and change in English, a seminar on the occassion of 50 years of British Council in Poland, in cooperation with the University of London, Poznań, 1988
  • Intercomponential parallelisms in Natural Linguistics, a workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 1993), Kraków, 1993
  • 30th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM'97), Recent developments in linguistic theory and their application to language comparison, Poznań, 1–3 May 1997
  • 31st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM'98), Recent developments in linguistic theory and the Meeting of the Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition, Poznań, 1–4 May 1998
  • 32nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM'99), Recent developments in linguistic theory, Poznań, 30 Apr–2 May 1999
  • Preferences and/or constraints, a workshop at the 32nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM'99), Poznań, 1 May 1999
  • Co-organizer, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2000), Poznań, 31 Aug–02 Sep 2000
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, Prosody 2000, Kraków
  • 33rd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2001), Bukowy Dworek, 27–29 Apr 2001
  • 34th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2003), Poznań, 1–3 May 2003
  • Focus on accents, a workshop at the 34th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2003)
  • Natural Phonology vs. Government Phonology, a workshop at the 34th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2003)
  • 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2004), Poznań, 18–20 May 2004
  • Co-organizer, Annual PASE Conference, Poznań, May 2004
  • 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2005), Poznań, 22–24 Apr 2005
  • Organizer, Professor Jacek Fisiak's 70th birthday and retirement celebrations, Poznań, 19 Apr 2006
  • 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2006), Poznań, 20–23 Apr 2006
  • "Natural Phonology: Universal principles for the study of language (insiders meet outsiders)", a special session at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007), Saarbrücken, 6–10 August 2007
  • 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2007), Gniezno, 13–16 Sept 2007
  • 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2008), Gniezno, 11–14 Sept 2008
  • A teach-in on Natural Phonology a special session at the 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2008), Gniezno, 12 Sep 2008
  • Complexity in Natural Linguistics, co-organizer of a workshop at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2008), Forlì, 19 Sep 2008
  • Head of the scientific committee, Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN), 24–26 Sept 2009, Poznań
  • 40th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2009), Gniezno, 2–5 Sep 2009
  • Workshop on English as a Lingua Franca at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2009), co-organizer, Lisbon, 8–14 Sept 2009
  • Head of the organizing committee, 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2010), Poznań, 1–3 May 2010
  • 41st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2010), Gniezno, 23–26 Sep 2010

Honours

  • Two AMU Rector's Prizes for research achievements (1988, 1991)
  • Polish Prime Minister's Prize for a Habilitationsschrift (post-doctoral dissertation) completed before the 35th year of age (Dec 1997)
  • Gold Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland (16 Nov 2004)
  • Minister of National Education and Sport's Individual Prize for the monograph Beats-and-Binding Phonology (Oct 2004)
  • Medal of the National Board of Education (14 Jun 2004, received May 2005)
  • AMU Rector’s Prize for the preparation of the Strategy of AMU (2009)
  • 2 AMU Rector’s prizes for administrative achievements (2009)

Publications

  • 3 books
  • 9 editorships
  • 69 articles (in periodicals and edited collections)
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