Jacek Kudera

I am a postdoc in Trier Center for Language and Communication: Patterns. Before joining TCLC, I was working in the Phonetics group, Dept. of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3678-1067

Contact

Trier University
Universitätsring 15
D-54296 Trier
office: B 588
mail

Education

2022 - PhD: Department of Langauge Science and Technology, Saarland University, Germany
2019 - MA (Linguistics) Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark
2015 - Magister (Slavic Philology) Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland

Research projects

- Patterns: Linguistic Creativity and Variation in Synchrony and Diachrony, Trier Center for Language and Communication (currently)
- Information Density and Linguistic Encoding - SFB 1102: Mutual intelligibility and surprisal in Slavic intercomprehension, Saarland University, DFG (2019-2022)
- Digital Atlas of Dialects of Bosnia and Herzegovina: University of Sarajevo & The Slavic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Culture of the Canton of Sarajevo (2017-2018)
- CLARIN-PL: European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures - ChronoPress, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Republic of Poland (2014-2017)

Scholarships

- May 2022: Polish Academy of Sciences: Institute of Slavic Studies, NAWA
- Sep 2018 / Feb 2019: University of Eastern Finland: Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies, Nordlys
- Apr / May 2017: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary: Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology
- Oct 2016 / Jan 2017: University of Novi Sad, Serbia: Department of Serbian Language and Linguistics
- May 2016: South East European Studies Association travel grant
- Feb / May 2016: University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, CEEPUS
- Mar / Jun 2014: University of Zagreb, Croatia: Department of Linguistics & Croaticum
- Oct 2012 / Mar 2013: University of Rijeka, Croatia: Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Erasmus

Internships

- Feb / May 2015: University of Zagreb, Croatia: Department of Phonetics
- Jul / Oct 2014: Alþjóðastofa Intercultural Centre in Akureyri, Iceland

Publications

2022

  • Jacek Kudera, Irina Stenger, Philip Georgis, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow (accepted). "Cross-linguistic intelligibility of idiomatic phrases in Polish-Russian translation tasks" Europhras proceedings.
  • Jacek Kudera, Irina Stenger, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow (2022). "Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin", Language and Speech.
  • Jacek Kudera (2022). "Slavic Receptive Multilingualism: Intercomprehension of Speech", universaar [PhD thesis].
  • Jacek Kudera, Philip Georgis, Hasan Md Tusfiqur Alam, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow (2022). "Comprehension of closely related languages: A visual world eye tracking study". Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2022, Tagungsband der 33. Konferenz (Sønderborg), p. 212-219.

2021

  • Jacek Kudera, Lauri Tavi, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow (2021). "The effect of surprisal on articulatory gestures in Polish consonant-to-vowel transitions: A pilot EMA study". 14. ITG-Konferenz, ITG-Fachbericht 298: Speech Communication (Kiel, Germany), p. 179-183.
  • Jacek Kudera, Philip Georgis, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow (2021). "Phonetic distance and surprisal in multilingual priming: Evidence from Slavic". Interspeech 2021 (Brno, Czechia), p. 3944-3948.
  • Jacek Kudera (2021). "Influence of sensorineural hearing loss on familiar speaker recognition: A forensic perspective on ageing", Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 138(1), p. 29-47.
  • Jacek Kudera, Marjolein van Os, Bernd Möbius, (2021). "Natural and synthetic speech comprehension in simulated tonal and pulsatile tinnitus: A pilot study". In Proceedings: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, ESSV 2021: 32nd conference on electronic speech signal processing, Technische Universität Berlin, TUD Press Germany, p. 273-280.

2020

  • Badr Abdullah, Jacek Kudera, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow (2020). "Rediscovering the Slavic Continuum in Representations Emerging from Neural Models of Spoken Language Identification", COLING VarDial: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Langauges, Varieties and Dialects, Barcelona, p. 128-139.
  • Jacek Kudera (2020). "Attuning to linguistically less-fluent interlocutors: Evidence from convergence in Danish and Finnish foreigner talk", Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 1/2020, p. 102-123.

2019

  • Jacek Kudera (2019). "О певању птица и ономатопејским изразима. Пољски ономатопејски изрази који опонашају звукове птица врсте Bubo bubo и Carduelis spinus" [Birdsong and onomatopoeia. Polish onomatopoeic phrases imitating the sounds of Bubo bubo and Carduelis spinus species], Studia et Documenta Slavica 1(7), p. 69-84.
  • Jacek Kudera (2019). "Конфронтативна акустичка анализа /Ə/ у северном, централном и јужном кашупском" [Confrontative, acoustic analysis of schwa in Northern, Central and Southern Kashubian], In M. Kovačević, J. Petković (Eds.), Савремена проучавања језика и књижевности X/1 [Contemporary Studies of Language and Literature], Kragujevac University Press, p. 25-33.

2018

  • Jacek Kudera (2018). "Synchronised and non‐synchronised articulation of Polish nasals ą and ę in child and adult speech", Govor 35(2), p. 161-188.
  • Jacek Kudera (2018). "О пољским и српским емотивним изразима из перспективе акустичке фонетике" [Polish and Serbian emotive phrases from the perspective of acoustic phonetics], Зборник радова младих филолога Србије: Савремена проучавања језика и књижевности IX/1, Kragujevac University Press, p. 265-269.
  • Jacek Kudera (2018). "O początkach badań dialektologicznych Południowej Słowiańszczyzny 120 lat po projekcie Milana Rešetara" [On the origins of dialectological research into South Slavic languages, one hundred and twenty years since Milan Rešetar’s project] Acta Universitas Wratislavensis no 3792, Slavica Wratislaviensia CLXV, p. 229-239.
  • Jacek Kudera (2018). "Badanie asocjacji związanych z autorytetem i władzą metodą nagrań skojarzeń swobodnych", Proceedings Fiatal Szlavisták Budapesti Nemzetközi Konferenciája VI. [Proceedings 6th Conference for Young Slavists in Budapest] p. 64-67.

Previous works

  • Jacek Kudera (2016). "A comparative study of vowels’ F1 and F2 values in frequent English loanwords in Polish and Russian languages", Govor 33(1) 2016, p. 67-78.
  • Jacek Kudera (2016). "Ja przecież swój, panie" [I am one of ours, my lord - A review], Didaskalia. Gazeta teatralna 136/2016, p. 147-148.
  • Jacek Kudera (2016). "Sztuka budowania mostów, czyli Andrić w Serbskim Teatrze Narodowym" [The art of bridge-building – Andrić in the Serbian National Theatre – a review], Znaczenia. Kultura, komunikacja, społeczeństwo 15/2016, p. 199-201.
  • Jacek Kudera (2014). "Heroji seljačkih revolucija. Jakub Šela – poljski Gubecov brat?" [The heroes of peasant uprisings. Was Jakub Szela a brother of Matija Gubec?], ŠtoRije I, Rijeka University Press 2014, p. 78-81.
  • Jacek Kudera (2014). "Snaga asocijacija u hrvatskome jeziku. Istraživanje recepcije pojmova u okviru vlasti i autoriteta auditivnom metodom Immediate Response" [Power of associations in the Croatian language. The research on the reception of phrases related to power and authority by means of immediate response audio method] Zbornik radova Međunarodne studentske konferencije „Jezik u (ne)književnim djelima“, Rijeka University Press 2014, p. 61-67.