Natalia Slioussar

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

• 1
  Gender in Russian: markedness, syncretism, and the role of surface representation, 2023
• 2
  A. Chuprina Morphologically Related Words: Lexical Access and Storage in the Mental Lexicon, 2023
• 3
  Acquisition and processing of case in L2 Russian, 2022

Grants

Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science

• 2019

  N. Slioussar Экспериментальное исследование ряда основных понятий теоретической морфологии (на материале русского языка): регулярность, синкретизм, маркированность

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

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