Last updated by kprzemek on 2018-12-21. Originally submitted by admin on 2006-10-04.
dr Anna Balas
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)
Department of Contemporary English Language
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 217
Phone: (+48) 61 829 1024
E-mail: abalas@wa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Websites / Profiles:
Degrees
- MA in English, Poznań, 2003
- PhD in English linguistics, Poznań, 2007
Research interests
- Phonetics and phonology, with the emphasis on speech perception, speech production and vowel systems
- second language acquisition
Teaching experience
- English phonetics and phonology
- Practical English – pronunciation, grammar, speaking and writing
- BA seminar
Professional organizations
- Linguistic Society of America
- Societas Linguistica Europaea
Research grants
- Sandhi in Second Language Speech, Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Polish National Science Centre), grant no. DEC-2012/05/B/HS2/04036, co-investigator
- Perceptual reorganization of speech: the interplay of categories and features, Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Polish National Science Centre), grant no. UMO-2015/17/B/HS2/01246, Principal Investigator.
- 2017-2019 – international grant of the Polish-German Foundation of Science, "MULTI-PHON - Phonological cross-linguistic influence in young multilinguals" in co-operation with the University of Münster, co-investigator.
Editorial
- Assistant to the Editor, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2006-2017
- Reviewer for: International Journal of Multilingualism, Research in Language, Linguistic Society of America, International Symposium for Monolingual and Bilingual Speech Proceedings
Scholarships
- Erasmus-Socrates, Universität Bielefeld, 2002-2003
- DAAD, Universität Bielefeld, 2004-2005
- Beneficiary of the Polish Ministry of Education PhD project grant supervised by prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
- CamLing, Cambridge, 19 Mar 2004
- 34th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 18-20 May 2004
- 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, 24-28 May 2004
- GlobE, Warsaw, 18-20 Sep 2004
- 27. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Köln, 23-25 Feb 2005
- 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 22-24 Apr 2005
- 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy, 22-28 Apr 2006
- 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28.11-02 Dec 2006
- 2nd Student Conference on Formal Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 21-22 Apr 2007
- 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, 6-10 Aug 2007
- 7th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2013), Montreal
- 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 11-14 September 2008
- 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Hong Kong, 17-21
- August 2011
- Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2013, University College London, 8-10 August 2013
- Accents 2013, Łódź, Poland
- Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium, 2014, Olomouc, the Czech Republic
- 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznań, 2014
- Accents 2014, Łódź
- The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Chania, Greece
- 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2016), Aarhus, Denamark
- Accents 2016, Łódź, Poland
- Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 2017, Austin, TX, USA
- 5th Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, 6-7 May 2017, Poznań, Poland
- Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics 2017, Lublin, Poland
- International Symposium for Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Chania, Greece
- 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland
Conference organizer
- Secretary of the Organizing Committee, 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Tarnowo Podgórne 2004
Publications
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