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Anna Balas

Last updated by grzegorz on 2020-02-05. Originally submitted by admin on 2006-10-04.

dr hab. Anna Balas, prof. UAM

University 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
  • D.Litt. in English linguistics, Poznań, 2019

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. Project webpage: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/pros/
  • 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, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Open Linguistics

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
  • The XIth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism 2018, Lisbon, Portugal
  • International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia

Conference organizer

  • Secretary of the Organizing Committee, 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Tarnowo Podgórne 2004

Publications