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/kdk/
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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 2008, Head of the AMU School of English (2008–2012 term)
  • As of 1 Sep 2005, Head of the AMU School of English (2005–2008 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
  • member of an Adviosry Team (Zespół doradczy) of the Council of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (Rada Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki, NPRH), appointed by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, 24 Jan 2011–31 Dec 2013

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 (Polish Linguistics Association, PTJ)
  • 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)
  • Academia Europaea (AE)
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

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.
  • 2008. Second priniting. Co-editor with Joanna Przedlacka. English pronunciation models: A changing ccene. (Linguistic Insights.) Bern, Frankfurt a. Main:  Peter Lang.
  • 2008. Second printing. Co-edito with Jarosław Weckwerth. Future challenges for Natural Linguistics. Munich: Lincom.
  • 2009. A special issue on Natural Phonology of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL), vol. 45(1). Pp. 189.
  • 2011. Co-editor with Magdalena Wrembel and Małgorzata Kul. Achievements and perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010. (Volume I and II.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • 2011. Co-editor with Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska. On words and sounds: A selection of papers from the 40th PLM. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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
  • Invited talk at Potsdam University, 13 Dec 2011

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 Aug 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 Aug 200
  • 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2007), organizer, co-authored paper, session co-organizer, Gniezno, 13–16 Sept 2007
  • New Sounds 2007, Florianópolis, 25–28 Nov 2007
  • Accents 2007, International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, an invited plenary talk, Łódź, 3–5 Dec 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 Sept 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 Apr 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 2011
  • 3rd Vienna workshop on affix order, keynote speech, University of Vienna, 14–17 Jan 2011
  • 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Hong Kong, 17–21 Aug 2011
  • EUROSLA, Stockholm, 7–10 Sept 2011

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
  • 42nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2011), Poznań, 1–3 May 2011

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)
  • Two AMU Rector’s Prizes for administrative achievements (2009)
  • AMU Rector's Prize for organisational achievements (2010)
  • AMU Rector's Prize for organisational achievements (2011)
  • AMU Rector’s scholarship for full professors with outstanding research achievements and contribution to AMU (2011–2012)
  • Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Polonia Restituta) [Kingt's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta] (2011)

Publications