Our team in Poznań

Principal Investigator

Magdalena Wrembel is a university professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and deputy head of Bilingualism Matters@Poznań. Her main research areas involve bilingualism and multilingualism, third language acquisition, phonetics and phonology as well as cross-linguistic influence in L3 phonological acquisition. She has co-organised a number of international conferences and has been actively involved in several research grants.  

Post-docs

Krzysztof Hwaszcz is an ADIM post-doctoral researcher as Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His main research areas involve syntax-semantics interface, mental lexicon, phonetics and phonology and syntax in the theoretical perspective. Krzysztof wrote his PhD dissertation on the processing of compound words and the organization of the mental lexicon. He is also associated with Wrocław University of Science and Technology in the CLARIN consortium. 

Hanna Kędzierska is an ADIM post-doctoral researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her main research interests include psycho- and neurolinguistics, multilingualism and figurative language processing. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the processing of foreign-accented speech, focusing on data obtained with the aid of event-related brain potentials technique. 

Kamil Malarski is an ADIM post-doctoral researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Kamil is trained in sociolinguistics, field linguistics, laboratory phonology and language acquisition. Multilingualism is his newest research interest. In our project, he investigates L3 Norwegian and L3 Polish speech. He tries to map the foreign-language accents with social and cultural parameters of the speakers. 

Tristan Czarnecki-Verner is a CLIMAD post-doctoral researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His research interests include obstruent sequences in Polish and across human languages. He uses acoustic, neuro-, and psycholinguistic techniques to assess how humans produce, perceive, and acquire consonant sequences. His long-term goal is to produce autodidactic tools to help learners acquire competence processing and producing articulatorily-complex sound sequences.   

Co-investigators

Anna Balas is university professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She conducts research on speech perception and production in second and third language acquisition and she is especially interested in vowel systems. Anna promotes research-driven approaches to bilingualism and multilingualism in Bilingualism Matters@Poznań. 

Jarosław Weckwerth is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University. His research interests include phonetics, sociolinguistics and the use of technology in the teaching of linguistics. He has written on various aspects of Polish and English phonetics and phonology, such as the spectral characteristics of Polish and English vowels, acquisition of L2 phonology, and pronunciation models in EFL. 

Sylwiusz Żychliński is an assistant professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University. His research areas mostly involve aspects of Polish-English comparative syntax, though recently he has started exploring topics related to the second / third language acquisition of syntax. He has also been interested in the phenomenon of gradient acceptability and how it relates to theories of syntax. 

Karolina Rataj is an assistant professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and head of the Neuroscience of Language Laboratory. She is interested in language processing, especially in creativity, the role of executive functions in semantic processing, and semantic processing disorders. She examines the neurocognitive processes that underlie creative and novel figurative language comprehension.

Kamil Kaźmierski is an assistent professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He is interested in corpus phonology and sociophonetics. He also has an interest in statistics, striving to be an informed user of quantitative data analysis methods.

Jolanta Sypiańska is a researcher in ADIM at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She also works at the University of Szczecin. Her research interests include cross-linguistic influences in perception and production of the second and third languages. However, L1 drift in phonetics is her most important research interest.

Witosław Awedyk is a post-doctoral researcher for the ADIM project at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is also an assistant professor at the University of Szczecin, where heads Norwegian studies at the Faculty of Humanities. His main research areas involve Norwegian-English contrastive studies in the fields of sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics and translation.

PhD assistants

Zuzanna Cal is a PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests involve multilingualism and third language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, cross-linguistic influence, as well as L1 drift and attrition. In her dissertation she investigates cross-linguistic influence in perception and production of stop consonants by trilingual speakers of Polish, English and Norwegian.

Anna Skałba is a PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests focus on bilingualism and multilingualism. She is especially interested in cross-linguistic influence in syntax and phonology, as well as in processes underlying language production and comprehension. She is writing her dissertation on the representation of syntactic constructions in the mind of French-English bilinguals. 

Justyna Gruszecka is a PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include bilingualism, affective language processing, neurolinguistics, and perception of artificial intelligence. In her dissertation, she investigates bilingual emotion-laden language perception in the context of human-AI interaction. She joined the ADIM project in September 2023.

Student assistant

Agnieszka Pludra is a master’s student of computational linguistics at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, second and third language acquisition, and natural language processing. Most recently, Agnieszka has been examining the effectiveness of gesture-enhanced pronunciation training on the acquisition of L2 stress patterns.

Angelika Walczak is a master’s student of the Language, Mind, Technology programme at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is currently helping with the ADIM project. In her MA thesis she investigates the processing of stereotypes in bilinguals.

Consultants

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is full professor and vice-rector for research of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has published extensively (ca. 160 publications) on phonology, phonetics and language acquisition. In her works she has been pursuing and advocating the Natural Linguistic approach to language. She was a Senior Fulbright scholar (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) and visiting scholar at the University of Vienna.  

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