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Dr Anna Skałba

  • Position: post-doc
  • Department: Laboratory of Neurolinguistics
  • Room: 3.052
  • E-mail: a.skalba@uw.edu.pl
  • Duty hours: Mondays 8:00-9:00 (by appointment)

 

Degrees:

  • PhD in Linguistics, 2025, Doctoral School of Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PhD thesis: “The processing of present perfect in French-English and Polish-English bilinguals: Behavioural, eye-tracking, and electrophysiological evidence”; PhD supervisors: prof. Guillaume Thierry, dr Agnieszka Lijewska)
  • MA in English Philology, 2020, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (MA thesis: “The phonology of French initial vowels against the background of English and Polish: A comparison of theoretical approaches”; MA supervisor: prof. Geoffrey Schwartz)
  • BA in English Philology, 2018, Institute of Foreign Languages, State University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz (BA thesis: “The influence of the French language on English after the Norman Conquest”; BA supervisor: dr Monika Zięba-Plebankiewicz)

 

Research interests

  • Bilingualism and multilingualism
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Cross-linguistic influence
  • Syntactic processing
  • Foreign language acquisition

 

Teaching experience

  • English grammar
  • Preparation for Cambridge exams
  • Business English

 

Professional experience

  • Laboratory Assistant, Language and Communication Laboratory, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2021–2025)
  • Lecturer in English (general English, English grammar, business English), Higher School of Foreign Languages in Poznań (2020–2021)

 

Research projects

  • Post-doc in NCN SONATA BIS project “Cognitive flexibility, cognitive load, and interpreting performance in simultaneous interpreters as a function of age” (2023/50/E/HS2/00171), PI: K. Broś, 2025–2028.
  • Researcher in NCN OPUS 25 project “Bidirectional interactions between symmetric and asymmetric grammatical gender systems in bilingual language comprehension and production” (2023/49/B/HS2/00173), PI: K. Długosz, 2024–2027.
  • Member of Science & Society bilateral initiative in social sciences, arts and humanities, EEA & Norway Grants (2024/43/7/HS6/00002) “Multibridge: Bridging the gap between multilingual research and society”, PI: M. Wrembel, 2024–2025.
  • PhD student researcher in NCN OPUS 19 project “Cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism across domains: phonology and syntax” (2020/37/B/HS2/00617), PI: M. Wrembel, 2022–2025.
  • PhD student researcher in NCN GRIEG 1 project “Across-domain investigations in multilingualism: Modelling L3 acquisition in diverse settings”, (2019/34/H/HS2/00495), PI: M. Wrembel, 2022–2024.
  • Principal investigator in ID-UB Doctoral mini-grant “The representation of grammatical tenses in the bilingual mind and brain” (054/13/SNJL/0007), 2022–2023.
  • Researcher in NCN OPUS 21 project “Stereotypically thinking: Neural correlates of stereotype processing in the native and non-native language”, (2021/41/B/HS2/00249), PI: K. Jankowiak, 2022–2025.

 

Research stays

  • School of Psychology and Sport Science, Bangor University, Wales. Uniwersytet Jutra II (16 September–15 December 2023).
  • UMR7023 Structures Formelles du Language Laboratory, Paris 8 University. STER (NAWA): Towards the Internationalization of the Doctoral School of AMU (PPI/STE2020/1/00007/U/00001) (1 October–31 December 2022).
  • Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. ID-UB: Doctoral research – research, international training and workshops (021/13/UAM/0057) (16–30 May 2022).

 

Presentations at international conferences:

  • “Selective cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 Norwegian ab initio: An eye-tracking study” (A. Skałba, S. Żychliński, M. Wrembel), L3 Workshop: Multilingual Acquisition, Processing and Use (3-4 October 2025), Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain.
  • “Grammatical gender processing in Polish-German and Polish-Danish bilinguals: A visual world eye-tracking study” (K. Długosz, M. Sobkowiak, A. Skałba, A. Olszewska). Applied linguistics in the face of the challenges of a changing world (24-26 September 2025), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
  • “The gender congruency effect in L2 Danish and German: The role of L1-L2 gender system similarities and L2 proficiency” (K. Długosz, M. Sobkowiak, A. Skałba). EuroSLA 34 (25-28 June 2025), UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
  • “Exploring the LnNor Corpus: An open multilingual speech database” (M. Wrembel, A. Pludra, A. Skałba, K. Malarski, J. Weckwerth, Z. Cal, A. Balas, T. Czarnecki-Verner, K. Kaźmierski). Bilingualism Matters Symposium (24-25 March 2025), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • “Challenges in acquiring L3 Norwegian possessive pronouns for Polish L1 speakers” [Poster presentation] (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel). Bilingualism Matters Symposium (24-25 March 2025), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • “CLI in L3 acquisition: The roles of dominance, recency, and property” (C. Castle, A. Skałba, M. Westergaard) ALS: the Australian Linguistic Society Conference (26-19 November 2024), Australian National University, Australia.
  • “Weak conceptualisation of present perfect in Polish-English bilinguals: Evidence from eye-tracking and EEG” (A. Skałba, G. Thierry). International Congress of Linguists (8-14 September 2024), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Shared representation for present perfect and passé composé in French-English bilinguals?” (A. Skałba, G. Thierry, A. Lijewska). International Congress of Linguists (8-14 September 2024), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Exploring gradient judgements: A study on the impact of bilingualism and age on the perception of L1 gradience” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel). International Congress of Linguists (8-14 September 2024), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “A self-paced reading investigation of cross-linguistic influence in L3 Norwegian” [Poster presentation] (A. Skałba, S. Żychliński, M. Wrembel). International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism (29-31 August 2024), University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • “Cross Linguistic Influence in L3 acquisition: Do dominance and recency play a role?” [Poster presentation] (C. Castle, A. Skałba, M. Westergaard). EuroSLA 33 (3-7 July 2024), University of Montpellier, France.
  • “Cognitive consequences of multilingualism and age in the processing of markedness and ungrammaticality in L1” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel). 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (29 August – 1 September 2023), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
  • “Does cross-linguistic similarity play a role in reading? A self-paced reading study with Polish-English-Norwegian multilinguals” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel). 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (13-15 September 2023), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Cross-linguistic influence in multilinguals: Do dominance and recency play a role?” (C. Castle, A. Skałba, M. Westergaard). 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (13-15 September 2023), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Can grammatical tenses be primed across languages? The case of the English present perfect and the French passé composé”. 8th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (19-21 May 2023), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Syntactic CLI in a longitudinal study on L3 Norwegian among L1 Polish – L2 English speakers” [Poster presentation] (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski). L3 workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use (22-23 October 2022), King’s College London, United Kingdom.
  • “Le (non)transfert des temps verbaux formellement équivalents chez des apprenants francophones d’anglais”. GeRoSLA: Acquisition L2 de catégories linguistiques et cognitives non-équivalentes en langues romanes et germaniques: Le transfert revisité (29-30 September 2022), University of Salzburg, Austria.
  • “Shared syntax in the multilingual mind: Evidence from language comprehension by Polish-English-French speakers”. 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (8-10 September 2022), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “The role of TIME and CONDITION in syntactic CLI: A report on a longitudinal study” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski). 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (8-10 September 2022), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Gradient acceptability and language proficiency as factors in L3 acquisition of syntax” (S. Żychliński, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski, A. Skałba). 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (24-27 August 2022), University of Bucharest, Romania.
  • “Que peut révéler la traduction de la représentation mentale des structures syntaxiques? Le cas du passé composé et du present perfect”. 8e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (4-8 July 2022), University of Orléans, France.
  • “The organisation of grammatical tenses in the bilingual mind: English present perfect and French passé composé” [Poster presentation]. 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (16-19 September 2021), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind” [Poster presentation]. 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (23-25 April 2021), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
  • “The organisation of grammatical tenses in a bilingual mind: Predictions based on existing observational and experimental data”. The International Emerging Scholars Online Conference GLOBAL – LOCAL – GLOCAL in Anglophone Literature, Culture, and Linguistics (26-27 March 2021), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
  • “The representation of initial vowels: Is French similar to English or Polish?” 13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (12-14 December 2019), University of Łódź, Poland.

 

Publications:

  • Żychliński, S., Skałba, A., & Wrembel, M. (2025). The perception of gradient acceptability among L1 Polish monolingual and bilingual speakers. Applied Linguistics Review [online first] https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0050.
  • Castle, C., Skałba, A., & Westergaard, M. (2025). Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Investigating the roles of dominance and recency. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism [online first]. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24022.cas.
  • Żychliński, S., Skałba, A., Wrembel, M., & Kaźmierski, K. (2025). How syntactic gradience in L1 affects L3 acquisition: A longitudinal study. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23011.zyc.
  • Jankowiak, K., Naranowicz, M., Skałba, A., Drążkowski, D., & Pawelczyk, J. (2024). Stereotypically thinking: Norms for stereotypical gender nouns in Polish and English. PLOS One, 19(12), e0312405. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312405.
  • Jankowiak, K., Naranowicz, M., Skałba, A., Drążkowski, D., & Pawelczyk, J. (2024). Norms for gender stereotypically congruent, stereotypically incongruent, semantically correct, and semantically incorrect sentences in Polish and English. PLOS One, 19(5), e0302594. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302594.
  • Skałba, A. (2022). Que peut révéler la traduction de la représentation mentale des structures syntaxiques ? Le cas du passé composé et du present perfect. SHS Web of Conferences 138(3): 09009. https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202213809009.
  • Skałba, A. (2021). Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind. In K. Jasiewicz & M. Zięba-Plebankiewicz (eds.), At the crossroads: Papers on language and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries (pp. 10–26). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Nowym Sączu.
  • Skałba, A. (2019). The representation of French initial vowels within the Onset Promincence Framework. In K. Jasiewicz & M. Zięba-Plebankiewicz (eds.), Neophilologica Sandeciensia, 13 (pp. 50–60). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Nowym Sączu.

 

Peer reviewer:

  • Lingua
  • Anglica Wratislaviensia
  • Glottodidactica