Oral Talks
2012
(With Tania Ionin and Anastasia Stoops) Quantifier scope and scrambling in the second language acquisition of Russian. Presented at Generative Approaches to Linguistics (GALANA 2012), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
L1 & L2 word order processing in Russian. Presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2012), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, PA.
Positive politeness overused: The case of ‘COMRADE’ in Russian and Mandarin Chinese. Presented at Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness (LIAR III), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
L1 & L2 Processing of Clause-internal phrasal scrambling in Russian. Presented at Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS 2012), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2013
(With Anastasia Stoops) Cloze test as an integrative measure of global L2
proficiency. Presented at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2013), Brigham Young University, Utah.
(With Jennifer Cole) Routes to prominence in free word order discourse. Presented at Prosody-Discourse Interface Conference (IDP 2013), University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Use of non-native prosody phenomena in a second language: does proficiency
matter? Presented at the 8th Annual Student Symposium of the Purdue Linguistics Association, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.
Speaker- and reader-based account of discourse prominence in a free word
order language. Presented at MidPhon-18, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2014
(With Tania Ionin) Scope, scrambling and information structure in Russian. Presented at the 23rd annual meeting of Formal Approaches toSlavic Linguistics (FASL 23), University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Time- and resource-efficient proficiency assessment for L2 & heritage speakers of Russian. Presented at the 2014 meeting of the Interdisciplinary Forum in Slavic Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
(With Tania Ionin) One reading for every word order: revisiting Russian scope.
Presented at the 32nd annual meeting of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 32), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
2015
(With Tania Ionin) The relationship between quantifier scope and information structure in Russian: an experimental perspective. Presented at the 24th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 24), NYU, NY.
(With Jennifer Cole, Preethi Jyothi, and Vandana Puri) Prosodic and structural correlates of perceived prominence in Russian and Hindi. Presented at 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 18), Glasgow, Scotland.
(With Jennifer Cole, Preethi Jyothi, and Vandana Puri) Perceived prominence in Russian and Hindi: evidence from an unguided prominence rating task. Presented at the 20th annual meeting of Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon 20), IU, Bloomington, IN.
Poster Presentations
2012 L1 & L2 Processing of Clause-Internal Phrasal Scrambling in Russian. Presented at Generative Approaches to Linguistics (GALANA 2012), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2013 Acoustic Parameterization of Non-canonical Word Orders in Russian. Presented at Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Boston, MS.
Building a Proficiency Measure for L2 speakers of Russian. Presented at Illinois Language and Linguistics Society, Urbana, IL.
Acoustic-prosodic correlates of discourse prominence in a free word order Language. Presented at Midwest Speech and Language, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2014 (With Jennifer Cole) Structural and Prosodic Correlates of Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse. Presented at the 7th annual meeting of Speech Prosody, Dublin, Ireland.
2015 (With Tania Ionin) Focus on scope: information structure and quantifier scope in Russian. To be presented at Experimental Pragmatics 2015, Chicago, Illinois.
(With Tania Ionin) Quantifier scope in the second language acquisition of Russian. 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.