Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

Profesor ordinarius
Head of the School of English

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) June 4, 2003
  • Professor Ordinarius July 1, 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., Ph.D. seminars, classes of various types conducted in English or German at Adam Mickiewicz University, Universität Wien and others
  • 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 September 1, 2005 Head of the School of English 2005-2008
  • Polish Phonetics Association: head of the Poznań division since 6.12.1997
  • since 1 February 2005 founder and head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Speech and Language Processing at AMU 2005-2007
  • Deputy Director for research, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1996-99
  • 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 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 since 6.12.1997 (four-year term)}
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea (nominated member of the Publications Committee)
  • Linguistics Association of Great Britain
  • International Society of Phonetic Sciences
  • International Phonetic Association
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze
  • Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polsko-Brytyjskiej
  • European Society for the Study of English ESSE
  • Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Akademickich Filologii Angielskiej PASE
  • UCL Alumni Network
  • International Association of University Professors of English IAUPE
  • Polskie Stowarzyszenie Stypendystów Fulbrighta
  • ISCA International Speech Communication Association
  • PTN Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne

Editorial

  • 1987-1990 assistant to the editors of {Studia Phonetica Posnaniensia (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM)}
  • since 1999: editor of the {Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics} (continuation of PSiCL: {Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics}): vol.35 (1999), 36 (2000), 37 (2001), 38 (2002/2003)
  • 1996. Naturalness Within and Across Components. Guest-edited volume of STUF 49, 3 (1996). Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH. (STUF= Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung). pp. 225-332 (=107 pp.) (guest-editing)
  • 1997. Pre- and protomorphology in language acquisition. Guest-edited volume of PSiCL 33. Poznan: AMU Press. pp. 171. (guest-editing)
  • 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 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.

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, Dept 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 Tromso, 1996
  • Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, 1997
  • the Polish section of the IPA, 1997
  • the Polish Neophilological Society, 1997
  • University of Bielefeld, 2000
  • Dzień Anglisty i Germanisty w WSZ w Koninie: guest lecture, 2000
  • Department of Linguistic, University of Hawai'i, a talk, 2001
  • Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i, a talk, 2001
  • Szczecin: wykład inauguracyjny w Nauczycielskim Kolegium Języków Obcych w Szczecinie, 2002
  • 3 June, Milan, two invited lectures at Universita' Cattolica and Universita' Milano-Bicocca., 2003
  • 3.11.2003, Poznań, a talk for the Senate of Adam Mickiewicz University: Nie pozwólmy zamilknąć głosom Edenu: o wymieraniu języków świata.

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 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
  • Ist 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
  • Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń, a conference Z zagadnień prozodii języków słowiańskich, 1998
  • 17-18 October, Wien, Symposium Sprachunterricht - zwischen Zeitgeist und Wissenschaft, Volkshochschule Brigittenau, an invited lecture, 1998
  • Łódź, 5-7 November, I Kongres Neofilologiczny, 1998
  • Poznań, 13 November, a Symposium on Received Pronunciation on the Occasion of the 60^th Anniversary of the British Council in Poland (speakers: J. Fisiak, P. Trudgill, J. Milroy, J.C. Wells), 1998
  • Rydzyna, 27-29 November, Zjazd Naukowy Polskiego Towarzystwa Fonetycznego nt. Fonetyka lingwistyczna, medyczna i techniczna, a talk, 1998
  • London, 14-15 April, UCL, PTLC (Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference), a talk coauthored with J.Weckwerth and J. Zborowska, 1999
  • 14^th ICPhS (International Congress of Phonetics Sciences), 1-7 August 1999, San Francisco, a talk, 1999
  • A Meeting of the Cross-linguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition. Vienna, October 1999. A talk together with D. Głowacka. 1999
  • International Conference: Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology III: "Speech'99", Łódź, December 1999, a plenary and a section talk (together with J. Weckwerth and J. Zborowska). 1999
  • Las Vegas, NAB 2000, 2000
  • SLE 2000, Poznań: a plenary talk (with two cospeakers), 2000
  • Amsterdam, New Sounds 2000: a plenary talk, 2000
  • PLM'2001, 27-29 April, Bukowy Dworek, organizer, a talk, a session
  • The 6th annual LLL College-wide Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, April 20th, 2002, keynote speech
  • IFA Poznan, a scholarly meeting talk: The Voices of Eden: A Hawaiian evening at IFA., 2003
  • 1-3 May, Poznań, PLM 2003, organizer, organizer of two workshops; two talks
  • 5-7 May, Soczewka, Dydaktyka Języków Obcych, a plenary talk, 2003
  • 5-7 June, Pisa, a keynote speech at the conference: History of the English Language in Italy (SLIN 2003) - "Historical Linguistic Studies of Spoken English"
  • 3-9 August, Barcelona, 15th ICPhS, a poster presentation, 2003
  • 1-4 September, Geneva, Eurospeech and Interspeech 2003
  • 3.11.2003, Poznań, a talk for the Senate of Adam Mickiewicz University: Nie pozwólmy zamilknąć głosom Edenu: o wymieraniu języków świata
  • November, Vienna, a proseminar (part I), 2003
  • February, Vienna, a proseminar (part II), 2004
  • 1 March, Warsaw, a scholarly meeting of the Linguistic Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • 16-17 March, Katowice, a conference and meeting of PSSF (Polish Association of Fulbright Scholars), 2004
  • 9-11 May, Mikorzyn, Dydaktyka Języków Obcych, a plenary talk, 2004
  • 16-18 May, Tarnowo Podgórne, PASE, a plenary talk; coorganizer of the workshop on English pronunciation dictionaries for foreign learners, 2004
  • 30 June - 7 July, Boulder, Colorado, Center for Spoken Language Research, Polish Literacy Tutor research visit, 2004
  • 8-14 August, Vancouver, Canada, 19th triennal IAUPE conference, 2004
  • 18-20 September, Warsaw, GlobE 2004, a joint talk with Ron Cole
  • 27-29 September, Poznań, PTN, a plenary talk, 2004
  • 28-29 September, Poznań, First Student Conference on Formal Linguistics, chair of the phonology session, 2004
  • 18-25 November, Vienna, a 10h-seminar (Socrates-Erasmus visit), 2004
  • 22-24 April 2005 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting PLM 2005, the conference organizor, a joint talk with Wolfgang Dressler & Daniel Śledziński
  • 25-26 April 2005 Soczewka, Dydaktyka Języków Obcych, a joint plenary talk with Ron Cole & Grzegorz Krynicki; a talk introducing a book
  • 18 May 2005 Szczecin, Teacher Training College, an invited talk
  • 27-30 July 2005 London, Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, a talk
  • 21-26 October 2005 Vienna, a seminar (Socrates-Erasmus visit)
  • 14-18 January 2006, Vienna, a seminar (cont.) (exchange Polish Academy of Sciences – Austrain Academy of Sciences)
  • 22 January 2006, an invited workhop on teaching phonetics and phonology, Teacher Training College Poznań
  • 9-11 April 2006, MultiLing 2006. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing. Stellenbosch, South Africa. a talk
  • 20-23 April 2006 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting PLM 2006, organizer of the conference, co-organizer of two sessions and workshop
  • 8-10 May 2006, Mikorzyn, Dydaktyka fonetyki języka obcego VI: metody, techniki i narzędzia, a talk
  • 24-26 May, Genua, the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC, a joint paper presented by a coauthor
  • 22-24 Sept, IATEFL Poland Conference, opening plenary lecture "English or ELFish? A teaching dilemma of the 21st century."
  • 11-14 October, Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Poznań, two joint presentations
  • 13-15 November, Vienna, seminar on the naturalness theory
  • invitation to 3-6 January, Mysore, India: ENGLISH IN INDIA: DIALOGUE AND DEBATE (a contribution, no visit)
  • 8 January, Kajetany near Warsaw, invited lecture in the International Center of Hearing and Speech, on "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."
  • 13-18 January, Vienna, research visit on invitation by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 20 March 2007, Łódź, invited talk "Czy fonologia może byc naturalna", WSHE
  • 21-22 April, 2nd SCoFL, Poznań, co-organizer
  • 2-3 May 2007, Bordeaux, France, Virtual Reality and Cognitive Disability, seminar, a joint talk
  • May 2007, Lesbos, research centre of the Agder Academy of Sciences, a research stay
  • 6-10 August 2007, ICPhS, 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, a joint poster
  • special session at the 16th ICPhS: "Natural Phonology: Universal principles for the study of language (insiders meet outsiders).", organizer and chair; a talk
  • 13-16 Sept 2007, 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting PLM 2007, Gniezno, organizer, a joint talk, session co-organizer
  • 25-28 November 2007, New Sounds 2007, Florianopolis, Brazil, abstract accepted
  • 3-5 December 2007, Łódź, Accents 2007, International conference on native and non-native accents of English, an invited plenary talk

Organizer of international conferences

  • Poznań, Poland, 1988, 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
  • A workshop: at SLE 1993, Kraków, Poland, Intercomponential parallelisms in Natural Linguistics
  • 30th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), 1-3 May 1997, Recent developments in linguistic theory and their application to language comparison
  • 31st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), 1-3 May 1998, Recent developments in linguistic theory and the Meeting of the Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition, 1-4 May 1998
  • 32nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM`99), 30 April - 2 May 1999, Recent developments in linguistic theory
  • A workshop: Preferences and/or constraints during PLM`99 (May 1)
  • 33rd SLE 2000, Poznań, 31.08.-02.09.2000, coorganizer
  • Prosody 2000, Kraków, member of the Organizing Committee
  • 33rd PLM 2001, 27-29 April, Bukowy Dworek, organizer
  • 34th PLM 2003, 1-3 May, Poznań, organizer
  • A workshop: Focus on Accents during plm 2003
  • A workshop: Natural Phonology vs. Government Phonology during PLM 2003
  • 6.09.2003, Poznań, project meeting with prof. Ronald Cole: Colorado Literacy Tutor and Polish Literacy Tutor, organizer
  • May 2004 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting
  • May 2004 coorganizer annual PASE conference
  • 17 May 2004, project meeting with prof. Ronald Cole: Colorado Literacy Tutor and Polish Literacy Tutor
  • PLM 2005
  • 19th April 2006 Professor Jacek Fisiak’s 70th birthday and retirement celebrations, organizer
  • 20-23 April 2006 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting PLM 2006, organizer
  • special session at the 16th ICPhS 2007, Saarbrücken: "Natural Phonology: Universal principles for the study of language (insiders meet outsiders)", organizer and chair
  • 13-16 Sept 2007, 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting PLM 2007, organizer

Honours

  • 2 prizes of the Rektor of UAM - for research achievements (1988, 1991)
  • Prime Minister`s Prize for the Habilitationsschrift (post-doctoral dissertation) completed before the 35th year of age (December 1997)
  • The Gold Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland (November 16, 2004)
  • Minister of National Education and Sport Individual Prize for a monograph "Beats-and-Binding Phonology" (October 2004)
  • The Medal of the National Board of Education (14.06. 2004, received May 2005)

Publications

  • 3 books
  • 6 editorships
  • 13 articles (in periodical)
  • 43 articles (in edited collection)
  • 6 reviews
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