Hanna Kędzierska is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Philology, University of Wrocław, and a member of the Center for Experimental Research on Natural Language. Her research interests lie in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, with a particular focus on multilingualism, foreign-accented speech, and figurative language.
She completed her MA thesis in 2017, exploring the role of context in processing idiomatic expressions, and earned her PhD in 2022 with a dissertation on the processing of foreign-accented speech using event-related potentials (ERPs).
Following her doctoral studies, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she used ERP methodology to examine phonemic contrast perception in multilingual speakers. She has hands-on experience with various experimental techniques, particularly eye-tracking and ERP.
In 2024, she was awarded a National Science Centre Miniatura grant for a project entitled “The Influence of Foreign-Accented Speech on the Processing of Idioms: A Psycholinguistic Study.”
PUBLICATIONS
2025. Are we equally accented in L2 and L3? Perception of foreign accentedness and comprehensibility in multilingual speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism, (online first). DOI: 10.1177/13670069251324466 [first author, co-authors: Krzysztof Hwaszcz, Magdalena Wrembel]
2025. The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(2), 550-562. DOI: 10.1017/S136672892400066X [first author, co-authors: Karolina Rataj, Anna Balas, Magdalena Wrembel]
2023. Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1270743. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1270743 [first author, co-authors: Karolina Rataj, Anna Balas, Zuzanna Cal, Chloe Castle, Magdalena Wrembel]
2023. Cerebral asymmetries in compound processing. Linguistics Vanguard, 9(1), 125-137. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0085 [co-author: Krzysztof Hwaszcz]
2022. DiaBiz.Kom – Towards a Polish Dialogue Act Corpus Based on ISO 24617-2 Standard. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling), 29(1), 3631-3638. [co-authors: Marcin Oleksy, Jan Wieczorek, Dorota Drużyłowska, Julia Klyus, Aleksandra Domogała, Krzysztof Hwaszcz, Daria Mikoś, Anita Wróż]
2020. Idioms in context: Evidence from a timed cloze-response study. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 65(4): 535-568. DOI: 10.1515/slaw-2020-0025 [first author; co-authors: Joanna Błaszczak, Wojciech Witkowski, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Piotr Gulgowski]
2019. How does foreign accent affect template matching mechanisms? ERP evidence from Polish. Linguistics Beyond and Within 5: 61-74.
2018. On the relevance of the syntactic flexibility of an idiom for its recognition: Experimental evidence from Polish. Anglica Wratislaviensia 56: 179–204. DOI: 10.1556/2062.2018.65.2–3.0 [first author, co-authors: Joanna Błaszczak, Wojciech Witkowski, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Piotr Gulgowski]
2018. The Rise of an Indefinite Article in Polish: An Appraisal of Its Grammaticalization Stage (Part 2). Studies in Polish Linguistics 13(3): 145-166. DOI: 10.4467/23005920SPL.18.007.9256 [co-author: Krzysztof Hwaszcz]
2018. The Rise of an Indefinite Article in Polish: An Appraisal of Its Grammaticalization Stage (Part 1). Studies in Polish Linguistics 13(2): 93-121 DOI: 10.4467/23005920SPL.18.005.8744 [co-author: Krzysztof Hwaszcz]2018. The role of context in the processing of idioms: An experimental study (M.A. thesis), Generative Linguistics in Wrocław, 5. Wrocław Center for General and Comparative Linguistics (CGCL) [ISBN 978–83-932687–4-0] [ISSN 2084–5723]
