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Staff Profile

Dr Natalia Pavlovskaya

Associate Lecturer 21/22

Background

I completed my PhD in Linguistics at Newcastle University in 2019. My PhD thesis explored how adults segmented an unfamiliar natural language after they received only minimal input without explicit instruction.


Research

My particular interest in language acquisition starts with babies’ segmentation of the speech stream and then focuses on how adult second language learners begin to segment an unfamiliar natural language after just a little exposure.

Publications
  • Pavlovskaya N, Jarad S, Leung AH-C, Young-Scholten M. What do adult learners know about phonology after minimal exposure?. In: 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. 2013, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Pavlovskaya N. Investigating the effect of phonological cues and their interactions on segmentation of words after first exposure to Russian. 2018. In Preparation.
  • Pavlovskaya N, Riches N, Young-Scholten M. First Exposure to Russian Word Forms by Adult English Speakers: Disentangling Language-Specific and Language-Universal Factors. Submitted, 2020. In Preparation.