EDUCATION

2014                    PhD, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester

                            Rochester, NY


2011                    LSA summer institute, University of Colorado at Boulder

                            Boulder, CO


2009                    MA, Data Processing, Phonetics, English, University of Cologne

                            Cologne, Germany


2007                    BA, English & German, Minsk State Linguistic University,

                            Minsk, Belarus

PUBLICATIONS

Fedzechkina, M., Newport, E.L., & Jaeger T.F. (in prep). The miniature artificial language learning paradigm as a complement to typological data.


Fedzechkina, M., Newport, E.L., & Jaeger T.F. (under review). Balancing effort and information transmission during language acquisition: Evidence from word order and case-marking.


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2013). Communicative biases shape structures of newly acquired languages. Proceedings of CogSci 2013. [pdf]


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2012). Language learners restructure their input to facilitate efficient communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [pdf]


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2011). Functional biases in language learning: Evidence from word order and case-marking interaction. Proceedings of CogSci 2011. [pdf]

                                                   

CONFERENCE TALKS

Fedzechkina, M., Newport, E., Jaeger, T. F. (2014). The miniature artificial language learning paradigm as a complement to typological data. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2014, Washington, DC, March 14-16, 2014.


Fedzechkina, M., Newport, E., Jaeger, T. F. (2014). Functional biases in acquisition shape cross-linguistically frequent structures. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2014, Washington, DC, March 14-16, 2014.


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger, T. F., Newport, E. (2013). Communicative biases shape structures of newly acquired languages. 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, July 31-August 3, 2013.


Jaeger, T. F., Fedzechkina, M., Kurumada, C., Newport, E. (2012). Confusability reduction in production and acquisition. DGfS 2012 workshop ‘Information Density and Linguistic Variation’, Frankfurt, Germany, March 9, 2012.


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger, T. F., Newport, E. (2011). Functional biases in language learning: Evidence from word order and case-marking interaction. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA, July 20-23, 2011.




                                                   

2014. Communication shapes structures of newly acquired languages. Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo -- SUNY, Buffalo, NY, January 27, 2014.


2013. Learners’ communicative preferences shape structures of newly acquired languages. Language and Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, November 18, 2013.


2013. Learners’ communicative preferences shape structures of newly acquired languages. Language Development and Language Processing Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 15, 2013.


2011. Are there functional biases in language acquisition? Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Language Group, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, January 10, 2011.



                                                   

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

MARYIA (MASHA) FEDZECHKINA

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CONFERENCE POSTERS

Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger, T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2014). Language processing shapes language change: Redundant cues are less likely to be maintained in language.  27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH, March 13-15. [poster]


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2011). Functional biases in acquisition: Language learners restructure the input to reduce uncertainty. 36th Annual Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 4-6, 2011. [poster]


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2011). Functional biases in (artificial) language learning. 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA, March 24-26. [poster]


Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2011). Word order and case-marking in language acquisition and processing. 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, January 6-9, 2011. [poster]

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2014 - present     NIH Postdoctoral Fellow

                            Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

                            Philadelphia, PA

                           Advisers: John Trueswell & Lila Gleitman


                           

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2009 - 2014         Graduate Student

                            Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester

                            Rochester, NY

                            Advisers: T. Florian Jaeger & Lissa Newport


2006 - 2009         Research Assistant, University of Cologne

                            Cologne, Germany

                            Adviser: Juergen Rolshoven