Paula Orzechowska Author

​Paula Orzechowska, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland). In 2011, she was employed in projects at the Institute of German Linguistics (University of Marburg, Germany), and acted as full professor at the Department of English and American Studies (University of Potsdam, Germany) from 2011 to 2013. Dr Orzechowska collaborates with English, German and linguistic institutes and research centres in Germany, Austria and France, working in international projects and completing short-term grants. Since 2016, she has been head of the project The Role of Phonological Features in Phonotactics: A Study on Structure and Learnability of Consonant Clusters in Slavic and Germanic Languages financed by the National Science Centre (Poland). Her main research interests are in phonetics and phonology, morphonology, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. She has previously worked on prosody, particularly on (mor)phonotactics and word stress of Germanic, Slavic and selected Afro-Asiatic systems. Her most recent theoretical and experimental contributions were published in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, and Folia Linguistica.