PD Dr. Marzena Iwona Żygis
Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, BerlinEducation and degrees:
| 08/03/2014 | Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in Linguistics, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan |
| 07/02/2007 | Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in General Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology, Department of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 5/07/1999 | Dr. phil. in Germanic Linguistics ("summa cum laude"), Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 06/1997 - 08/1997 | Studies and research at Cornell University and University of Massachusetts, USA |
| 04/1996 - 03/1999 | Post-graduate programme 'Economy and complexity in language', Humboldt University, Berlin and Potsdam University. |
| 20/12/1995 | M.A. degree in Germanic Linguistics, Italian and German as a Foreign Language, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 09/1993 - 01/1994 | M.A. studies at Università degli Studi di Pisa (Erasmus programme) |
| 07/1992 | B.A. degree in Germanic Linguistics, Italian and German as a Foreign Language, Humboldt University, Berlin |
Academic/visiting research positions:
| 08.2019 | Visiting scholar at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ |
| 03/2014 - 07/2014 | Visiting research fellow at the University of Kent, UK |
| 01/2000 - present | Researcher at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin |
| 02/2007 - present | Lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin |
Grants/scholarships:
| 03 - 07/2014 | Visiting scholar bursary for partial funding of research stay at University of Kent, UK |
| 1997 | German Science Foundation (DfG) grant for attending the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America at Cornell University, USA |
| 1993 - 1994 | DfG scholarship for Ph.D. studies, Postgraduate Colleague at Humboldt University in Berlin and Potsdam University |
| 1996 - 1999 | Erasmus grant for studies at Università degli Studi di Pisa |
| 1990 - 1995 | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship for studies at Humboldt University in Berlin |
| 1990 - 1995 | Scholarship from the Polish Republic (bilateral Polish-German agreement) for studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin |
Participation in research projects at the Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin:
| 2013 - 2019 | Constituent-related Phenomena of Spoken Language funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
| 2008 - 2012 | Boundary Phenomena in Speech funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| 2006 - 2007 | The Role of Perception in Phonology funded by German Research Foundation |
| 2003 - 2005 | Manner Alternations in Phonology funded by German Research Foundation |
| 2000 - 2002 | Phonological Word funded by German Research Foundation |
| 2000 | Neutralisations funded by German Research Foundation |
Principal Investigator of the following projects:
| 2019-2020 | Perception and Processing of Foreign Accent from a German-Polish Perspective (with Joanna Blaszczak); Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) |
| 2020-2022 | Audio-visual prosody of (semi-)whispered speech (PROSPER); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| 2020-2023 | Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign accent in a Polish-German context (with Joanna Blaszczak); Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung (DWPS) |
Other projects to which I was invited to co-operate:
| 2009 - 2011 | Articulatory and Perceptual Mechanisms of Sound Change (part I) funded by Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation; PI: Prof. Daniel Recasens, Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| 2006 - 2009 | Articulatory and Perceptual Factors Involved in Phonetic and Phonological Sound Change (part II) funded by Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation; PI: Prof. Daniel Recasens, Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| 02/1996 - 03/1996 | Development of an Audio-Visual Telephone for Hearing-Impaired People funded by EU, TIDE agreement; PI: Dr Hans-Heinrich Bothe, the Technical University, Berlin |
Participation in linguistic schools:
| 25/06 - 13/07/2001 | Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| 19/01 - 23/01/1998 | Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalwetenschap (LOT) Winter School, University of Leiden, Holland |
| 23/06 - 1/08/1997 | Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| 5 - 23/08/1996 | 3rd Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Palacký University, Olomouc, the Czech Republik |
| 31/07 - 17/08/1995 | 2rd Central European Summer School in Generative Syntax, Palacký University, Olomouc, the Czech Republik |
Associate editor:
| Journal of the International Phonetic Association |
Ad-hoc reviewer for:
| Journal of Phonetics, Language, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Phonology, Phonetica, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Folia Linguistica, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics | |
| Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre, NCN, Poland) |
Ad-hoc reviewer of grants submitted to:
| National Science Foundation (USA) Humboldt Stiftung (Humboldt Foundation, Germany) |
Member of scientific committees of the following conferences (on a regular base):
| International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) Conference of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) International Speech Production Seminar (ISSP) Phonetics & Phonology of Iberia (PAPI) Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) Speech Prosody |
Member of the following associations:
| German Linguistic Association since 2000 International Phonetic Association since 2004 Association for Laboratory Phonology since 2010 Polish Phonetic Association since 2013 Acoustical Society of America since 2014 |
Language skills:
| Polish (native), German (advanced), English (advanced), Italian (intermediate), Russian (intermediate) |