Natalia Slioussar
- Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Leading Research Fellow: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences / Centre for Language and Brain
- Natalia Slioussar has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education and Degrees
HSE University
Thesis Title: Experimental study of several core concepts of theoretical morphology (on the material of Russian): regularity, syncretism, markedness
Utrecht University
Thesis Title: Grammar and Information Structure: A study with reference to Russian
St Petersburg State University
St Petersburg State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
October 2018. Research stay at McMaster University (Canada).
April-May 2015. Research stay at the University of Maryland (USA).
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2023, 2020
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2015–2016)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Formal Syntax (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Linguistics at School" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Formal Syntax (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal Syntax (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics at School" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Experimental Linguistics (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics at School" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Experimental Linguistics (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Experimental Linguistics (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Experimental Studies of the Grammar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Grants
European:
- Individual grant Rubicon 446-07-019 (2008-2009) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
- Individual grant Veni 016-104-065 (2010-2014) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Russian:
- Grant 00-04-00338a (2000-2002) from the Russian Foundation for Humanities. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 04-04-00083a (2004-2006) from the Russian Foundation for Humanities. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 4723 (2005) from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 07-04-00285а (2007-2009) from the Russian Foundation for Humanities. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 10-04-00056а (2010-2012) from the Russian Foundation for Humanities. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 12-06-00382 (2012-2014) from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 0.38.518.2013 (2013-2015) from Saint-Petersburg State University. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 14-04-12034 (2014-2016) from the Russian Foundation for Humanities. Project leader: Natalia Slioussar.
- Grant 14-04-00586 (2014-2016) from Russian Foundation for Humanities. Project leader: Prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University).
- Grant 16-18-02071 (2016-2018) from Russian Science Foundation. Project leader: Natalia Slioussar.
- Grant 16-18-00041 (2016-2018) from Russian Science Foundation. Project leader: Maxim Kireev (Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, and St. Petersburg State University).
- Grant 18-012-00837 (2018-2020) from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Project leader: Anastasia Lopukhina.
- Grant 020-1902-01-334 (2020-2022) from the Russian Ministry of Education. Project leader: Andrey Sobolevsky (IITP RAS).
- Grant 20-512-26004 (2021-2023) from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Project leader: Svetlana Toldova.
Conferences
- 2024
1st Eurasian Congress of Linguists (Москва). Presentation: Processing of grammatical gender, number and case: evidence from Russian.
1st Eurasian Congress of Linguists. (Москва). Presentation: Gender-related factor in affective norms of Russian and English nouns.
17th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 17). (Нова-Горица). Presentation: A talk “Not so attractive: in which constructions do we find agreement attraction?”
33rd Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 33) conference. (Галифакс). Presentation: “To inflect, or not to inflect, that is the question: an experiment with nonce nouns in Russian.”
33rd Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 33) conference. (Галифакс). Presentation: “Word order and context in L1 and L2 sentence processing: a study on Russian and Chinese.”
- 2022
13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Париж). Presentation: The role of presentation modality in sentence processing.
International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Ниагара на озере). Presentation: Some errors are more harmful than others: the role of type and frequency of orthographic errors in word processing
International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Ниагара на озере). Presentation: Gender and case in Russian nouns denoting professions and social roles
International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Ниагара на озере). Presentation: The shadow of unused feminitives: online / offline processing of gender agreement in Russian
International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Ниагара на озере). Presentation: Processing gender, number and case: lessons of forgetfulness
The 12th conference “Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters” (Москва). Presentation: Относительный порядок дативного аргумента в дитранзитивных конструкциях в русском языке: корпусные и экспериментальные исследования
20th International Morphology Meeting (Будапешт). Presentation: Gender agreement processing: evidence from Russian
20th International Morphology Meeting (Будапешт). Presentation: Morphophonological and semantic factors affecting gender variation in Russian indeclinable nouns.
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Йорк). Presentation: To forget or not to forget: processing gender, number and case features
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Йорк). Presentation: A beam in the eye: the type and frequency of orthographic errors in word processing
Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2022 (Тюбинген). Presentation: ‘Prototypicality’ of inflections and phonological properties of stems
Grammar & Corpora (Гент). Presentation: The relative order of NPs in clauses with direct and indirect objects in Russian.
Grammar & Corpora (Гент). Presentation: Non-nominative antecedents of possessive reflexives in Russian: enhancing theoretical studies with corpus data.
31st Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (Гамильтон). Presentation: Morphological and semantic factors affecting gender variation in Russian indeclinable nouns
28th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue (Москва). Presentation: Одни ошибки вреднее других: роль типа и частотности орфографических ошибок в обработке слов
28th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue (Москва). Presentation: Non-Canonical Constructions with Reflexive Possessives in Russian: U-Possessor Constructions
The 35th Annual Conference on. Human Sentence Processing (Санта-Круз). Presentation: Using a masculine noun when a feminine one could be used: online and offline processing of gender agreement in Russian
The 35th Annual Conference on. Human Sentence Processing (Санта-Круз). Presentation: Gender stereotypes in agreement processing: a study on Russian
The 35th Annual Conference on. Human Sentence Processing (Санта-Круз). Presentation: Tail wags the dog: gender and case in Russian nouns denoting professions.
13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Париж). Presentation: Comparing number and gender agreement processing in Russian: an experimental study
Шестой международный зимний симпозиум по экспериментальным исследованиям языка и речи (Night Whites 2022) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Attractions of agreement: what three decades of experiments taught us.
Шестой международный зимний симпозиум по экспериментальным исследованиям языка и речи (Night Whites 2022) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Phonology and semantics in morphological processing: gender agreement with indeclinable nouns.
Шестой международный зимний симпозиум по экспериментальным исследованиям языка и речи (Night Whites 2022) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Hippocampal inhibition as a possible brain mechanism for suppression of non-selected solutions in ambiguity resolution.
Шестой международный зимний симпозиум по экспериментальным исследованиям языка и речи (Night Whites 2022) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Detecting case and number agreement errors in participial modifiers: an experimental study on Russian.
Шестой международный зимний симпозиум по экспериментальным исследованиям языка и речи (Night Whites 2022) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Different types of orthographic manipulations when identifying errors in Russian words.
Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2022 (Тюбинген). Presentation: Form matters: the role of inflection syncretism in morphological processing.
Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL 4). (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The mirative construction in Kazym Khanty.
The annual conference in memory of M.L. Gasparov. (Москва). Presentation: Семантика стиха и ее восприятие.
- 2021
VII Студенческая конференция Института лингвистики. СКИЛ 2021 (Москва). Presentation: Когда форма имеет значение: роль синкретизма в морфологической обработке
VII Студенческая конференция Института лингвистики. СКИЛ 2021 (Москва). Presentation: Morphological ambiguity in gender agreement attraction
12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Афины). Presentation: Sentence comprehension assessment in Russian
12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Афины). Presentation: Professions and gender agreement in Russian
LISP-2021: Linguistic illusions in sentence processing. Presentation: The role of syncretism in grammaticality illusions: a gender agreement attraction study
LISP-2021: Linguistic illusions in sentence processing. Presentation: Trans-paradigmatic syncretism of case affixed triggers grammaticality illusions
LISP-2021: Linguistic illusions in sentence processing. Presentation: Grammaticality illusions as a window onto L2 processing mechanisms
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2021) (Paris). Presentation: Native-like processing problems as a window onto L2 processing mechanisms
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2021) (Paris). Presentation: The role of syncretism in agreement attraction
27th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue” (Москва). Presentation: The order of objects in Russian: a corpus study
27th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue” (Москва). Presentation: Gender and case in Russian nouns denoting professions and social Roles
- 2020
Words in the World International Conference 2020 (Online). Presentation: Lexical access to morphologically complex words during parafoveal processing
Words in the World International Conference 2020 (Online). Presentation: Inflectional affixes in the mental lexicon: processing of Russian noun case forms
CAICS 2020, the First National Congress on Cognitive Research, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroinformatics (online). Presentation: Методика оценки читательского опыта: адаптация для русского языка
CAICS 2020, the First National Congress on Cognitive Research, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroinformatics (online). Presentation: Восприятие стиха и прозы: психоведение и психолингвистика
26th AMLaP. Presentation: Frequent misspelling affects visual word processing: evidence from Russian
26th AMLaP. Presentation: Modifier attachment problem: a processing experiment on Lithuanian
26th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue” (Москва). Presentation: Чему нас учат ошибки: трудности при обработке слов с частотными орфографическими ошибками
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 29 (Сиэтл). Presentation: Case form processing in L1 and L2 Russian: inflectional affixes that walk by themselves
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 29 (Сиэтл). Presentation: SOV in Russian: using large corpora to solve the enigma
33th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Амхерст). Presentation: Inflectional affixes that walk by themselves: how noun forms are processed in Russian
III Чтения памяти Виктора Григорьева 2020 (Москва). Presentation: Восприятие стиха и восприятие прозы: экспериментальное исследование
- 2019
32th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Boulder, CO). Presentation: Gender agreement processing: inflectional endings and stereotypes
XX АПРЕЛЬСКАЯ МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ НАУЧНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ НИУ ВШЭ (Москва). Presentation: Processing of case morphology in L2 Russian: experimental studies
Psycholinguistics in Iceland: Parsing and Prediction (PIPP) (Reykjavik). Presentation: Gender and gender-to-ending consistency in agreement processing: evidence from Russian
International Morphological Processing Conference (Тюбинген). Presentation: Homophony in case forms processing a self-paced reading study with reference to Russian
International Morphological Processing Conference (Тюбинген). Presentation: The age of acquisition effect in the processing of Russian inflectional morphology
International Morphological Processing Conference (Тюбинген). Presentation: Factors affecting the decay of stem-final consonant mutations: Ukrainian vs. Russian
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 28 (Стони Брук). Presentation: Control violation in Russian converbs
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 28 (Стони Брук). Presentation: Gender and declension in gender agreement processing: evidence from Russian
52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (Лейпциг). Presentation: Different means to encode IS: how they interact and when they do not
Psycholinguistics in Iceland: Parsing and Prediction (PIPP) (Reykjavik). Presentation: Gender agreement processing in Russian: predictions based on linguistic and extralinguistic information
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Москва). Presentation: L2 processing of case in Russian
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Москва). Presentation: Case form processing in sentential context: evidence from Russian
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Москва). Presentation: An fMRI study of case agreement processing in Russian
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Москва). Presentation: Syntax and Prosody in Encoding Information Structure in Russian: an Experimental Study
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Москва). Presentation: Transposed-letter similarity effects in Russian when primes and targets are of different frequency
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Factors affecting the decay of stem-final consonant mutations: Ukrainian vs. Russian
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Brain mechanisms for meaning selection in the setting of ambiguity resolution: an fMRI study
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Word form homophony affects error processing in silent reading: evidence from Russian
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Transposition priming is diminished in the beginning of Russian words
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The age of acquisition effect for inflectional classes: an ERP study on Russian
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Comparison of attraction errors across number and person categories
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Aftereffects of ambiguity resolution in the word fragment completion task
The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Inflectional affixes that walk by themselves: case form processing in a sentential context
- 2018
The Fourth St.Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Probing connections between morphologically related words
The Fourth St.Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The acquisition of the Russian noun case paradigm by adult Spanish-Catalan learners
The Fourth St.Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The role of letter position for visual word processing: an experimental study on Russian
The Fourth St.Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Gender and declension in agreement processing
The Fourth St.Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Morphological regularity and processing difficulty in a lexical decision fMRI study on Russian
31th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Davis). Presentation: Forms and features in agreement processing
31th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Davis). Presentation: Prosody and information structure: what is universal and what is not?”
XIX April International Academic Conference (Москва). Presentation: Становление падежной парадигмы при изучении русского языка как иностранного
Ежегодная конференция памяти Михаила Гаспарова (Москва). Presentation: Что нейровизуализационные методы исследования мозга могли бы дать филологии?
24th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue” (Москва). Presentation: Gender, declension and stem-final consonants: An experimental study of gender agreement in Russian
19th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2018) (Лукка). Presentation: Differential involvement of prefrontal cortex in the processing of case agreement attraction in Russian: an fMRI study
19th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2018) (Лукка). Presentation: Organization of functional interactions within the fronto-temporal language brain system underlying production and perception of regular and irregular Russian verbs
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 24 (AMLaP) (Берлин). Presentation: What defines grammatical gender of Russian expressive nouns?
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 24 (AMLaP) (Берлин). Presentation: Morphological and stereotypical gender in processing agreement
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 24 (AMLaP) (Берлин). Presentation: Morphological regularity and processing difficulty in an fMRI study on Russian
The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Эдмонтон). Presentation: Morphologically mediated syntactic priming in visual lexical decision: evidence from Russian
The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Эдмонтон). Presentation: L2 development of the Russian case system
The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Эдмонтон). Presentation: Decay of Stem-final Consonant Mutations in Ukrainian
The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Эдмонтон). Presentation: Evidence for middle letters salience in visual word recognition in Russian
The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Эдмонтон). Presentation: Gender stability in Russian expressive nouns
8th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Светлогорск). Presentation: Род экспрессивных существительных в русском языке: экспериментальное исследование
8th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Светлогорск). Presentation: Как умирают правила: корпусное и экспериментальное исследование исторических чередований согласных в украинском языке в сравнении с русским
8th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Светлогорск). Presentation: Грамматические характеристики и гендерные стереотипы при обработке согласования по роду в русском языке
- 2017
The 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Cambridge, MA). Presentation: Comparing corpus and experimental approaches: A study of the Russian enclitic že
The 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Cambridge, MA). Presentation: Resolving attachment ambiguity: forget case, but remember number!
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 23 (Lancaster). Presentation: Gender and Declension in Agreement Processing
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 23 (Lancaster). Presentation: Development of the Russian case system in L2 adult Spanish-Catalan learners
Role and Reference Grammar Conference (Токио). Presentation: Grouping morphologically related verbs in mental lexicon: evidence from Russian affixation
10th International Morphological Processing Conference (Триест). Presentation: Substitution letter effects in Russian nouns: implications for morphological decomposition
10th International Morphological Processing Conference (Триест). Presentation: Inflectional regularity and gender in agreement processing: evidence from Russian
10th International Morphological Processing Conference (Триест). Presentation: How strongly are morphologically related words connected: evidence from Russian verbs
Cognitive Science in Moscow: New Research (Москва). Presentation: StimulStat: инструмент для подбора психолингвистических стимулов на русском языке
Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: Диалог 2017 (Москва). Presentation: Орфографические соседи в русском языке: база анных и эксперимент, направленный на изучение морфологической декомпозиции
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 26 (Урбана-Шампейн). Presentation: Experimental studies of agreement in Russian
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 26 (Урбана-Шампейн). Presentation: To PPs in their proper place
Morphosyntactic Variation in Adpositions Workshop (Кэмбридж). Presentation: Intersecting PPs and the locative semantics of possession
- 2016
17th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna). Presentation: Singular nouns looking like plurals cause more agreement attraction than genuine plurals.
17th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna). Presentation: Gender agreement attraction in Russian: different profiles in production and comprehension.
The 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Gainesville). Presentation: Gender agreement attraction in Russian: novel patterns in comprehension.
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 25 (Ithaca, NY). Presentation: Singulars looking like plurals cause more agreement attraction than genuine plurals
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 25 (Ithaca, NY). Presentation: Gender agreement attraction in Russian: different profiles in production and comprehension.
7th International Conference on Cognitive Science. Presentation: StimulStat: a database for linguistic and psychological studies on Russian language.
7th International Conference on Cognitive Science. Presentation: Morphological ambiguity not fully resolved in context: the case of number agreement attraction in Russian.
18th International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) World Congress (Havana). Presentation: Interactions within fronto-temporal brain network associated with regular vs. irregular verb production
The 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (Бильбао). Presentation: Case errors in online and offline comprehension: evidence from L1 and L2 Russian.
The 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (Бильбао). Presentation: Forget case, but remember number: processing participial constructions in Russian.
The 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (Бильбао). Presentation: A DCM analysis of interactions within the fronto-temporal brain network associated with regular vs. irregular verb production.
The 47th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47) (Amherst, MA, ). Presentation: Better plurals than genuine plurals: syncretism and grammaticality illusions in number agreement
The 10th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Ottawa, ON). Presentation: Interactions within fronto-temporal brain network associated with regular vs. irregular verb production
The 10th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Ottawa, ON). Presentation: Paradigm levelling in modern Russian.
Workshop on Hierarchical Structures in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. (Tromsø). Presentation: Hierarchical relations in information structure: a view from Russian.
- 2015
28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Лос-Анджелес). Presentation: Number, gender and case feature interaction in processing: Evidence from Russian
28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Лос-Анджелес). Presentation: The time course of syntactic ambiguity processing: Evidence from Russian
28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Лос-Анджелес). Presentation: Attraction errors in case agreement: Evidence from Russian
3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress (Рио-де-Жанейро). Presentation: Producing regular and irregular verbs in Russian: a PPI analysis
3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress (Рио-де-Жанейро). Presentation: Phi-feature interaction in processing: evidence from Russian
3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress (Рио-де-Жанейро). Presentation: Attraction in producing case agreement errors: Evidence from Russian
Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015 (Валетта). Presentation: Singular nouns disguised as plurals cause agreement attraction
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 24 (New York). Presentation: Paradigm leveling in non-standard Russian: consonant alternations in comparatives and nouns
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 24 (New York). Presentation: Attraction errors in case agreement production
NetWordS 2015 Conference (Пиза). Presentation: Grouping morphologically complex words in the mental lexicon: evidence from Russian verbs and nouns
Agreement across Borders Conference (Задар). Presentation: Attraction errors in case agreement production: Evidence from Russian
Agreement across Borders Conference (Задар). Presentation: Morphological ambiguity in agreement attraction: a novel view from Russian
9th International Morphological Processing Conference (Потсдам). Presentation: Non-parallel effects in production and comprehension of agreement attraction
"Диалог 2015": Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии (Москва). Presentation: Частотности различных грамматических характеристик и окончаний у существительных русского языка
"Диалог 2015": Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии (Москва). Presentation: StimulStat: база данных, охватывающая различные характеристики слов русского языка, важные для лингвистических и психологических исследований
12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (Валенсия). Presentation: A PPI analysis of Russian verb production
12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (Валенсия). Presentation: Number agreement in Russian in production and comprehension
Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing (Москва). Presentation: Individual variation in evaluating Russian sentences with possessive pronouns
- 2014
27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Колумбус, Огайо). Presentation: Two distinct attraction profiles in comprehending Russian gender agreement
27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Колумбус, Огайо). Presentation: Surface form effects in agreement attraction and similar phenomena
- 2013
8th International Morphological Processing Conference (Кембридж). Presentation: Attraction errors in gender agreement: Evidence from Russian
8th International Morphological Processing Conference (Кембридж). Presentation: An ER-fMRI study of Russian verb morphology
- 2012
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 21 (Блумингтон). Presentation: Attraction errors in gender agreement: Evidence from Russian
- 2011
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 20 (Кембридж, Масс.). Presentation: Regularizing processes in Russian verb morphology
- 2010
18th International Morphology Meeting (IMM) (Будапешт). Presentation: L2 Acquisition of Nominal Paradigms in Russian
19th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2018) (Лукка). Presentation: Organization of functional interactions within the fronto-temporal language brain system underlying production and perception of regular and irregular Russian verbs
19th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2018) (Лукка). Presentation: Differential involvement of prefrontal cortex in the processing of case agreement attraction in Russian: an fMRI study
Employment history
2004-present. St.Petersburg State University (during various periods worked at the Department of General Linguistics, the Department of the Problems of Convergence in Natural Sciences and Humanities, and the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies).
2008-2009. Research project "Information structure: towards a unified approach", Linguistics Department, University College London (with a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)).
2010-2014. Research project "Prosody and syntax: how are they related", Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University (with a VENI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)).
The HSE Look October Issue
The fourth issue of 2020 presents three interviews on the digital university concept and introduces new tenure faculty.
HSE Scholars to Participate in Creating a New Platform for Russian National Corpus
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has announced the results of a grant competition for big research projects. One of the winners is a project with HSE University participation: the creation of a next generation computational linguistic platform to digitally record the Russian language.
István Kecskés at the School of Linguistics
On September 13, an eminent Hungarian and American linguist, Professor István Kecskés (State University of New York) visited HSE University with an open lecture "The effect of salience on shaping speaker’s utterance in the socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics". We asked Prof Kecskés to share some thoughts on his research and his impression of HSE.
Natalia Slioussar Took Part in the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
On March 19-21 Natalia Slioussar, Assistant Professor at the School of Philology took part in the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, organized by the University of Southern California.