SVISTUNOVA
E-mail: tata.svistunova@gmail.com
Education:
1999 - 2005: Saint-Petersburg State University, Philological faculty, Department of Russian language and literature
2000 - 2005: Specialization “Psycholinguistics”
2003 - 2004: The University of Maryland, College Park, USA – International exchange program sponsored by the President of Russia
2005 - 2008: PhD program, Saint-Petersburg State University, Philological faculty, Department of General Linguistics.
2008, June 27: Defence of PhD Dissertation “The organization of the mental lexicon: acquisition and collapse of Russian verbal inflection (experimental evidence)”.
Employment:2005 - to present: Research assistant of Laboratory for Cognitive Studies of Philological Research Institute of Saint Petersburg State University
2008 - to present: Lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics
Fields of professional interests: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition.
Courses at St. Petersburg State University: Psycholinguistics, Statistics in Linguistics Studies, Issues of Second Language Acquisition.
Publications.
Conferences:
25.05.–28.05.2006: 12th International Morphology Meeting, 2006, Budapest. Poster (with prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya and prof. Kira Gor): Preschool children: Acquisition of Russian verbal morphology (experimental study)
27.08.2005–30.08.2005: The science of aphasia VI, 2005, Helsinki. Poster (with prof. Tatiana Chernigovskaya, prof. Kira Gor and Tatiana Petrova): Mental Lexicon Structure in Language Acquisition and Collapse: Evidence from a Morphologically Rich Language
05.02.2003–05.04.2003: International workshop “Empirical methods in cognitive linguistics” at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (The analysis of language acquisition of the twins)
04.19.2002–04.20.2002: The second Goloday’s conference, 19 – 20 April 2002, Saint Petersburg (Experimental study of verbal classes ontogenesis in small children)
Grants and scholarships:
03-06-80068 from Russian Foundation for Basic Research
04-04-00083a from Russian Scientific Foundation for Research in Humanities
Scholarship of the President of Russia for study abroad
06-06 80152a from Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
07-04-00285a from Russian Scientific Foundation for Research in Humanities
Languages:
Russian (native), English (fluent), German, French and Czech (with dictionary).