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Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski, Piotr, Blaszczak, Joanna and Marzena Żygis
The processing of grammatical and phonological errors in L1 accented speech. Results from a German-Polish ERP study. (invited talk)
DEL Colloquium
29.02.2024, University of Debrecen

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski, Piotr, Blaszczak, Joanna and Marzena Żygis
Phonological and grammatical error processing in L2 versus L1 accented speech. A German-Polish ERP study. (invited talk, virtual)
GULP talks
29.02.2024, Glasgow University

Marzena Żygis
Research theme at ZAS: Multimodality, motion, speech perception and production.
Advisory board meeting
19-20.10.2023, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin

Żygis, Marzena, Mahinazhad Sardhaei, Nasim and Manfred Krifka
The interplay of oro-facial expressions and acoustic cues in German questions
BBL
12.10.2023, Berlin

Mahinazhad Sardhaei, Nasim, Żygis, Marzena, and Manfred Krifka
Orofacial expressions in different speech modes and when wearing a mask
Poster presented at GESPIN conference
13-15.09. 2023, Nijmegen

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski, Piotr, Blaszczak, Joanna and Marzena Żygis
What influences the foreign accent strength? Phonological and grammatical errors in the perception of accentedness.
Poster presented at 24th Interspeech conference
20-24.08.2023, Dublin

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski Piotr & Marzena Żygis
Illusions of ungrammaticality in the perception of non-native accented speech
20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 
7-11.08.2023, Prague

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski Piotr & Marzena Żygis
Oro-facial expressions and acoustic cues in German questions
Poster presented at 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 
7-11.08.2023, Prague

Żygis, Marzena, Blaszczak, Joanna, Saint-Peterssen, Marcus, Cwiek, Aleksandra, Wesolek, Sarah & Piotr Gulgowski 
Attitudes in the German-Polish context based on the perceptual evidence
Poster presented at 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 
7-11.08. 2023, Prague 

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski Piotr & Marzena Żygis
Perceptual illusions of ungrammaticality in foreign-accented speech 
Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology of Europe (PAPE) 
2-4.06.2023, Radboud University Nijmegen 

Marzena Żygis
Multimodality, motion, speech perception and production 
25.05.2023, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski Piotr, Joanna Blaszczak, Ulrike Domhas & Marzena Żygis
Illusionen grammatischer Fehler bei der Perzeption fremdspachlich akzentuierter Sprache  (invited talk)
24.05.2023, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski Piotr, Joanna Blaszczak, Ulrike Domhas & Marzena Żygis
Illusions of ungrammaticality in the perception of non-native accented speech
BBL
11.05.2023, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski Piotr, Joanna Blaszczak, Ulrike Domhas & Marzena Żygis
Foreign accent effects in the processing of grammatical and phonological errors. A German-Polish ERP study (invited talk) 
Linguistic Colloquium of the Institute for German Linguistics and the German Language Atlas
26.04.2023, Marburg University.

Żygis, Marzena
New experimental paths in testing linguistic hypotheses (keynote talk)
Conference "100 years of English studies at the University of Warsaw"
Uniwersystet Warszawski, Warszawa, 20.-21.04.2023

Żygis, Marzena, Nasim Sarhaei & Manfred Krifka
The interplay of oro-facial expressions and acoustic cues in German questions
SPAGAD meeting
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 20.03.2023

Żygis, Marzena
Experimental methods in phonetics
Workshop on "Experimental methods in Laboratory Phonology"
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 11-12.10.2022

Żygis, Marzena
Key components of experimentation
Workshop on "Experimental methods in Laboratory Phonology"
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 11-12.10.2022

Żygis, Marzena and Sarah Wesolek
Sind wir voreingenommen, wenn wir Fremdsprachenakzente hören (invited talk)
Technical College of Organisation and Management
Stanslaw Staszic School No 8
Szczecin, Poland, 3.10.2022

Żygis, Marzena, Sarah Wesolek, Nina Hosseini, Manfred Krifka
The prosody of cheering in sport events
Poster presented at Interspeech 2022
Incheon, Korea, 18-22.09.22

Sardhaei, Nasim, Marzena Żygis & Hamid Sharifzadeh
How do our eyebrows respond to masks and whispering? The case of Persian
Poster presented at Interspeech 2022
Incheon, Korea, 18-22.09.22

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
At the margins of speech: orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispering
51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 8-10.09.2022

Wesolek, Sarah, Żygis, Marzena, Hosseini, Nina & Manfred Krifka
The prosody of cheering in sport events
51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 8-10.09.2022

Wesolek, Sarah, Żygis, Marzena & Piotr Gulgowski
Illusions of ungrammaticality in foreign-accented speech perception
Poster presented at 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 8-10.09.2022

Wesolek, Sarah, Żygis, Marzena & Piotr Gulgowski
Illusions of ungrammaticality in foreign-accented speech perception
Poster presented at Summer School "Coping with the complexity in speech production and perception"
Chorin, Germany, 4-7.07.2022

Sardhaei, Nasim, Żygis, Marzena & Hamid Sharifzadeh
Facial expressions in whispered and normal speech: the case of eyebrow movement
Laboratory Phonology Conference 18
Virtual conference, 23-25.06.2022

Żygis, Marzena, Sóskuthy Márton, Lorenc Anita, Mik Łukasz, and Daniel Pape
On the necessity of exploring individual variation
Poster presented at the Laboratory Phonology Conference 18
Virtual conference, 23-25.06.2022

Wesolek, Sarah, Żygis, Marzena & Piotr Gulgowski
Illusions of ungrammaticality in foreign-accented speech perception
Poster presented at the Meeting with the ZAS Advisory Board
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, Germany, 16-17.06.2022

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Engelmann, Jonas, Quiroz Sergio & Marzena Żygis
Prosodic transfer in contact varieties: Vocative calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French (invited talk)
Phonology Colloquium
Frankfurt University, 01.06.2022

Wesolek, Sarah, Gulgowski, Piotr, Żygis, Marzena, Ulrike Domahs and Christine Mooshammer
Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign accent
ZAS retreat (ZAS Klausurtagung)
Templin, Germany, 12-13.05.2022

Żygis, Marzena
Multimodality, Motion, Speech Production and Perception: An overview of research at ZAS.
ZAS retreat (ZAS Klausurtagung)
Templin, Germany, 12-13.05.2022 ​

Żygis, Marzena, Piotr Gulgowski & Sarah Wesolek
Granitus project: Grammatical illusions in accented speech comprehension
A memorial workshop in honour of Prof. Joanna Blaszczak
University of Wroclaw, virtual, 11.12.2021 ​

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
At the margins of speech: orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispering (virtual)
Workshop on Facial Gestures in Interaction
Universität Bayreuth, Germany, 7-9.10.2021

​Lorenc, Anita, Marzena Żygis, Lukasz Mik, Daniel Pape & Márton Sóskuthy
Articulatory characteristics of Polish retroflexes
Conference of the Commission for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavic Languages of the International Slavic Committee
Zagreb University, Croatia 30.09-1.10.2021

​Blaszczak Joanna & Marzena Żygis
Bin ich Deutscher oder Pole? Eine Studie über nationale Identität der deutsch-polnischen Kinder und Jugendlichen in Berlin (invited talk)
Technical College of Organization and Management in Stanislaw Staszic School No. 8
Szczecin, 27.09.2021

​Lorenc, Anita, Marzena Żygis, Lukasz Mik, Daniel Pape & Márton Sóskuthy
Articulatory and acoustic variation in the realization of Polish retroflexes (virtual)
Poznań Linguistic Meeting 50
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 16.09-19.09.2021

​Broś, ​Karolina, Marzena Żygis, Adam Sikorski & Jan Wołłejko
Phonological contrasts and gradient effects in ongoing lenition (virtual)
Poznań Linguistic Meeting 50
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 16.09-19.09.2021

​Hamlaoui, Fatima, Jonas Engelmann, Sergio Quiroz & Marzena Żygis
Influence of lexical tones on calling melodies: a comparison between Metropolitan and Bàsàá-Cameroonian French (virtual)
Poznań Linguistic Meeting 50
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 16.09-19.09.2021

​Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Trinh, Tue, Zygis, Marzena, Solt, Stephanie, Benz, Anton & Manfred Krifka
Assertability differences between epistemic adverbs and adjectives (virtual)
Poster presented at Conference Sinn und Bedeutung 26
University of Cologne, 8-10.09.2021

​Hamlaoui, Fatima, Marzena Żygis, Jonas Engelmann & Sergio Quiroz
Influence of lexical tones on calling melodies: a comparison between Metropolitan and Bàsàá-Cameroonian French (virtual)
Conference Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 4th (PAPE 4)
University of Pompeu Fabra and University of Barcelona, 21-23.06.2021

Broś, Karolina, Marzena Żygis, Adam Sikorski & Jan Wołłejko
Gradient effects and contrast preservation in Spanish lenition (virtual)
Conference Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 4th (PAPE 4)
University of Pompeu Fabra & University of Barcelona, 21-23.06.2021

Wesolek, Sarah & Marzena Żygis
Sind wir voreingenommen, wenn wir Fremdsprachenakzente hören? (virtual)
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Long Night of Sciences) 8
Berlin, 5.06.2021

Żygis, Marzena
How do we perceive others? On the role of attitudes in a German-Polish context (keynote talk, virtual)
Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL14)
Universität Leipzig, 2-04.06.2021

Żygis, Marzena
What do we do when we whisper? (invited talk, virtual)
Phonetik-Colloquium
Bielefeld University, 18.05.2021

Żygis, Marzena
The role of aerodynamics in explaining sound patterns:
infrequency of voiced affricates (invited talk, virtual)
Workshop in honour of John Ohala
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 12-13.03.2021

Kazuko Yatsushiro, Trinh, Tue, Marzena Żygis, Stephanie Solt, Anton Benz & Manfred Krifka
Certainly and it is certain: Experimental findings about subjective and objective epistemics
Brown Bag Lunch
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 11.02.2021

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Marzena Żygis, Jonas Engelmann & Sergio Quiroz
Influence of lexical tones on calling melodies. A comparison between
Metropolitan and Bàsàá-Cameroonian French (invited talk)
Linguistics Colloquium (ICU-LINC): Prosody Series
International Christian University (ICU), 18.12.2020

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Marzena Żygis, Jonas Engelmann & Sergio Quiroz
Influence of lexical tones on calling melodies. A comparison between
Metropolitan and Bàsàá-Cameroonian French
Conference on Intonation, Language Contact and Social Factors
University of the Basque Country, 23-24.10.2020

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
At the margins of speech: orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispering (virtual)
Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology conference 17
The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Canada, 6-08.07.2020

Żygis, Marzena, Pape, Daniel, Jaskula, Marek & Laura König
Do children understand themselves or adults better? A production and perception study of Polish /s, ɕ, ʂ/ (virtual)
Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology conference 17
The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Canada, 6-08.07.2020

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
At the margins of speech: orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispering (virtual)
Workshop: Prosody in Speech Signal Perception and Gestures
43 GLOW conference (virtual), HU Berlin, 8-20.04.2020

Żygis, Marzena, Jaskula, Marek, Daniel, Pape & Laura Koenig
Do children understand themselves or adults better? A production and perception study of Polish /s, ɕ, ʂ/ (virtual)
Brown Bag Lunch
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 27.03.2020

Quiroz, Sergio & Marzena Żygis
The vocative chant and beyond: German calling melodies under routine and urgent contexts
Project meeting (SPAGAD)
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 28.01.2020

Żygis, Marzena, Aleksandra Ćwiek & Joanna Błaszczak
What does a foreign accent reveal about listeners' attitudes? An experimental study with German listeners rating Polish and American accents.
Center for General and Comparative Linguistics
University of Wrocław, 12.12.2019

Żygis, Marzena, Aleksandra Ćwiek & Joanna Błaszczak
What does a foreign accent reveal about listeners' attitudes? An experimental study with German listeners rating Polish and American accents.
Workshop on Experimental Methods in Laboratory Phonology
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 21.11.2019

Żygis, Marzena
Experimental methods in phonetics
Workshop on Experimental Methods in Laboratory Phonology
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 21.11.2019

Żygis, Marzena, Susanne Fuchs & Katarzyna Stoltmann
Orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispered and normal speech
Poster presented at Amazon Research Days "Probabilistic Methods in Deep Learning"
Amazon, Berlin, 15.10.2019

Żygis, Marzena, Fuchs, Susanne & Katarzyna Stoltmann
How prosody, speech mode and speaker's visibiity influence oro-facial expressions (invited talk)
School of Computing and Information Technology
Unitech Institute of Technology, Auckland New Zealand, 13.08.2019

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
How prosody, speech mode and speaker's visibiity influence lip aperture
19 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Melbourne, 5-9.08.2019

Żygis, Marzena, Jaskula, Marek, Daniel, Pape & Laura Koenig
Production of Polish sibilants in the process of language acquistion
19 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Melbourne, 5-9.08.2019

Krynicki, Grzegorz, Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna Żygis, Weckwerth, Jarosław,
Michalski, Grzegorz, Kaźmierski Kamil, Maciejewska, Barbara, Wiskirska-Woźnica, Bożena,
Żygis, Marzena, Kuczko, Wiesław, Sekuła, Alicja
Automatic English phoneme recognition from articulatory data generated by EPG systems with grid and anatomic layout of contact sensors
19 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Melbourne, 5-9.08.2019

Żygis, Marzena, Jack Tomlinson, Caterina Petrone & Dominik Pfütze
Acoustic cues of prosodic phrase boundaries in German at different speech rates
19 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Melbourne, 5-9.08.2019

Żygis, Marzena
From voiced to whispered speech
Special Session at the 19 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Melbourne, 5-9.08.2019

Żygis, Marzena
Understanding speech from its not fully fledged forms [keynote talk]
Approaches to Phonetics and Phonology (APAP) 2019
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 21-22.06.2019

Żygis, Marzena
Psst… Was passiert, wenn wir flüstern?
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019/Long Night of Science 2019
Leibniz Gemeinschaft, Berlin, 15.06.2019

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
How prosody, speech mode and visibility influence lip aperture
Poster presented at LingCologne2019: Multimodality conference
University of Cologne, 6-7.06.2019

Żygis, Marzena
Key components of experimentation
Workshop on Experimental Methods in Laboratory Phonology
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 1.-2.04.2019

Żygis, Marzena
Experimental methods in phonetics
Workshop on Experimental Methods in Laboratory Phonology
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 1.-2.04.2019

Żygis, Marzena, Marek Jaskuła & Laura Koenig
Do children understand better adults or themselves? A perceptual study of Polish /s, ʂ, ɕ/
Paper presented at 176th Meetingof Acoustical Society of America
Victoria, BC, Canada, 5–9.11.2018

Żygis, Marzena
Experimental designs
Workshop on Experimental Metods in Laboratory Phonology
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 24.09.2018

Żygis, Marzena
Experimental methods in phonetics
Workshop on Experimental Metods in Laboratory Phonology
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 24.09.2018

Żygis, Marzena, Susanne Fuchs & Katarzyna Stoltmann
Orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispered and normal speech
Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP)
Humbolt University, Berlin, 07.09.2018

Żygis, Marzena, Susanne Fuchs & Katarzyna Stoltmann
Orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispered and normal speech
Laboratory Phonology Conference 16
University of Lisboa, 20-22.06.2018

Lorenc, Anita, Marzena Żygis, Łukasz Mik & Daniel Pape
Articulatory variation in Polish palatalized retroflexes
Laboratory Phonology Conference 16
University of Lisboa, 20-22.06.2018

Mik, Łukasz , Anita Lorenc, Daniel Pape and Marzena Żygis
Articulatory and acoustic variation in the realization of Polish retroflexes
Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology Conference 16
University of Lisboa, 20-22.06.2018

Malisz, Zofia & Marzena Żygis
Lexical stress in Polish: evidence from focus and phrase position differentiated production data
Poster presented at Speech Prosody
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 13-16.06.2018

Peskova, Andrea, Marzena Żygis & Marek Jaskuła
Differences and similarities in the intonation systems of Czech and Polish
Workshop at Speech Prosody: Usages and Advantages of Categorial Phonetic Transcription of Prosody:
Toward the developement of an International Prosodic Alphabet
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 14.06.2018

Howson, Phil & Marzena Żygis
l-vocalization as gestural lenition: evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
14th Quebec-Ontario Dialogues on the Acquisition of Spanish (QODAS)
University of Toronto, 24.04.2018

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Sergio Quiroz, Jonas Engelmann & Marzena Żygis
Influence of lexical tones on calling melodies. A comparison between
Metropolitan and (Bàsàá) Cameroonian French
Poster presented at 3rd Workshop on Intonation
University of Toronto, 16.02.2018

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Sergio Quiroz, Engelmann, Jonas & Marzena Żygis (invited talk)
Are there differences in calling melodies between tone and intonation languages?
Evidence from Metropolitan French and (Bàsàá) Cameroonian French
Free University, Berlin, 6.12.2017

Fuchs, Susanne, Jannedy, Stefanie z & Marzena Żygis
Multimodal Communication
Leibniz-ZAS Advisory Board Meeting
ZAS, Berlin, 24-25.11.2017

Żygis, Marzena, Fuchs, Susanne & Katarzyna Stoltmann
Orofacial expressions in German questions and statements in voiced and whispered speech
5th Gesture and Speech Conference (GESPIN)
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 25-26.08.2017

Quiroz, Sergio & Marzena Żygis
The vocative chant and beyond: German calling melodies under routine and urgent contexts
Interspeech 2017 'Situated Interaction'
Stockholm University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 20-24.08.2017

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Sergio Quiroz & Marzena Żygis
Are there differences in calling melodies between tone and intonation languages?
Evidence from Metropolitan French and (Bàsàá) Cameroonian French
Poster presented at Association for French Language Studies Conference (AFLS)
Glendon College of York University, Toronto, 8-10.08.2017

Quiroz, Sergio, Zygis, Marzena, Arvaniti, Amalia & Marek Jaskuła
Do males and females use the same calling melodies? Evidence from German and Polish.
BBL Meeting
Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, 16.02.2017

Sergio Quiroz, Marzena Żygis & Fatima Hamlaoui
Kids, dinner! Do different languages use different calling intonation?
Poster presented at ZAS Meeting
ZAS, Berlin, 25-26.11.2016

Daniel Pape & Marzena Żygis
The puzzle of two major spectral peaks in Polish sibilants: Acoustic analysis and articulatory synthesis
Poster presented at the Satellite Workshop on “Dynamics and Representation of Turbulent Sounds”
Laboratory Phonology Conference 15, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 13-17.07.2016

Żygis, Marzena
Sibilants from a phonological, acoustic and perceptual point of view (invited talk)
Faculty of English
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 03.06.2016

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Żygis, Marzena, Engelmann, Jonas & Michael Wagner
Acoustic correlates of focus marking in Polish
ZAS Meeting
Berlin, 28.04.2016

Czaplicki, Bartłomiej, Żygis, Marzena, Daniel Pape & Luis Jesus
Acoustic and sociolinguistic analysis of new ways to articulate sibilants in Polish (invited talk)
Phon & Phon meeting at the Faculty of English
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 15.03.2016

Żygis, Marzena
Prosody of whispered speech (invited talk)
European Research Council interview
Brussels, 10.11.2015

Joanna Blaszczak & Marzena Żygis
Aus dem Sprachleben deutsch-polnischer Schüler in Berlin: eine Fragebogenstudie
GAL-Tagung (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik)
Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, 24-25.09.2015

Żygis, Marzena
Debate on "Understanding linguistitc concepts" (discussant)
45th Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 17-19.09.2015

Malisz, Zofia & Marzena Żygis
The interaction of word, stress and accent domains in Polish
45th Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 17-19.09.2015

Malisz, Zofia & Marzena Żygis
Voicing in Polish: Interactions with lexical stress, speech rate, focus and final boundary
18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Glasgow, UK, 10-14.08.2015

Hamlaoui, Fatima, Żygis, Marzena, Engelmann, Jonas & Michael Wagner
Acoustic correlates of focus marking in Polish
18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Glasgow, UK, 10-14.08.2015

Arvaniti, Amalia, Żygis, Marzena & Marek Jaskula
The effects of intonation on acoustic properties of fricatives
Poster presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Glasgow, UK, 10-14.08.2015

Żygis, Marzena, Pape Daniel, Luis Jesus & Marek Jaskula
The phonetics and phonology of Polish calling contour
Poster presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Glasgow, UK, 10-14.08.2015

Żygis, Marzena, Arvaniti, Amalia & Marek Jaskula
The phonetics and phonology of Polish calling contour
Poster presented at the Phonetics and Phonology of Europe 2015
University of Cambridge, UK, 29-30.06.2015

Joanna Blaszczak & Marzena Żygis
Am I German or Polish? A case study of Polish-German children and adolescents living in Berlin (invited talk)
Stuttgarter SFB guest lecture serie
University of Stuttgart, 27.04.2015

Żygis, Marzena, Daniel, Pape, Luis Jesus & Marek Jaskuła
Prosodic cues in whispered speech. Empirical insights into prosody from a segmental prespective (invited talk)
Stuttgarter SFB guest lecture serie
University of Stuttgart, 27.04.2015

Joanna Blaszczak & Marzena Żygis
Am I German or Polish? A case study of Polish-German children and adolescents living in Berlin.
Conference "Borders and Identity III: Urban fragmentation"
Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Berlin, 17-19.03.2015

Malisz, Zofia, Żygis, Marzena & Petra Wagner
Acoustic correlates of prosodic structure in Polish
Workshop on "Weak vs. strong prosodic positions: possible variation and relevance for grammar"
37th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society
Universität Leipzig, 4-6.03.2015

Malisz, Zofia, Żygis, Marzena & Petra Wagner
Acoustic correlates of prosodic structure in Polish
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Universität des Saarlandes, 4.02.2015

Czaplicki, Bartłomiej, Żygis, Marzena, Daniel Pape & Luis Jesus
Analiza akustyczna i socjolingwistyczna nowych realizacji polskich sybilantów (invited talk)
[Acoustic analysis and sociolinguistic aspects of recent developments in Polish sibilants]
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 20.11.2014

Malisz, Zofia & Marzena Żygis
Acoustic correlates of prosodic structure in Polish
Fakultät für Linguisitk und Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Bielefeld, 5.11.2014

Malisz, Zofia & Marzena Żygis
Akustyczne korelaty struktur prozodycznych w języku polskim
[Acoustic correlates of prosodic structure in Polish]
Conference 'Acoustics in linguistics & linguistics in acoustics'
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 26-27.09.2014

Malisz, Zofia & Marzena Żygis
Aspiracja w języku polskim w różnych kontekstach prozodycznych na podstawie dialektów miejskich
[Aspiration in different prosodic positions in Polish urban dialects]
Conference 'Acoustics in linguistics & linguistics in acoustics'
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 26-27.09.2014

Czaplicki, Bartłomiej, Żygis, Marzena, Daniel Pape & Luis Jesus
Analiza akustyczna i socjolingwistyczna nowych realizacji polskich sybilantów
[Acoustic analysis and sociolinguistic aspects of recent developments in Polish sibilants]
Conference 'Acoustics in linguistics & linguistics in acoustics'
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 26-27.09.2014

Arvaniti, Amalia & Marzena Żygis
Polish vocative chant and prosodic annotation
The 6th international Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE 6)
Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 10-12.09.2014

Żygis, Marzena, Daniel, Pape, Luis Jesus & Marek Jaskuła
The interdependence of voiceless sounds and intonation (invited talk)
ELL (English Language and Linguistics) Research Day
University of Kent, UK, 21.06.2014

Blaszczak, Joanna & Marzena Żygis
How do you feel about Poland and Germany if you are bilingual?
Conference on Nations and Stereotypes 25 years later
International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland, 5.06.2014

Blaszczak, Joanna & Marzena Żygis
Tozsamosc indywidualna a dwujezycznosc. Wielopłaszczyznowe studium dzieci polsko-niemieckich mieszkajacych w Berlinie. (invited)
National identity and biligualism. Multidimensional sociolinguistic study of German-Polish children living in Berlin.
3. Konferenz der Bundesvereinigung der Polnischlehrkräfte, Bad Muskau, Germany, 4-6.04.2014

Żygis, Marzena, Daniel, Pape, Luis Jesus & Marek Jaskuła
The interdependence of voiceless sounds and intonation
HU-ZAS Meeting
Humboldt University, Berlin, 19.02. 2014

Żygis, Marzena
Empirical insights into prosody from a segmental perspective. [keynote]
The 8th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society
University of Szczecin, Poland, 25-27.10. 2013

Żygis, Marzena, Christine Mooshammer & Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Segment-prosody interaction. An overview of perspectives.
Workshop on 'Universality and variability in segment-prosody interaction'
Linguistic Institute 'Universality and variability', University of Michigan, 12.07.2013

Czaplicki Bartłomiej, Żygis, Marzena & Daniel Pape
Acoustic analysis and sociolinguistic aspects of recent developments in Polish sibilants
Conference on 'Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics'
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University & John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin. 21-23.06.2013

Malisz Zofia, Żygis, Marzena & Bernd Pompino-Marschall
Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German. (invited talk)
Department of English
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 7.05.2013

Żygis, Marzena
(Un)expected changes in sibilant systems from the Slavic perspective. (invited talk)
Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 24.10.2012

Żygis, Marzena, Bartlomiej Czaplicki & Daniel Pape
Dynamics of sibilant systems: Standard Polish and its dialects.
Phonetik & Phonologie 8
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 12-13.10.2012

Malisz Zofia, Żygis, Marzena & Bernd Pompino-Marschall
Glottalisation as a consequence of rhythmic structure? A study of different speech styles in Polish and German.
The 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Universität Stuttgart, 27-29.07.2012

Żygis, Marzena, Brunner, Jana & Scott Moisik
The affinity of low vowels and glottal stops:an articulatory model and a perceptual investigation.
Poster presented at the 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Universität Stuttgart, 27-29.07.2012

Żygis, Marzena & Jana Brunner
Why do glottal stops and low vowels like each other?
The Ninth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP9)
Berlin, 19-21.01.12

Żygis, Marzena
Expanding phonological horizons: The role of aerodynamics in phonology.
Special session at the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
City University of Hong Kong, 17-21.08.11

Żygis, Marzena
Why is Slavic not always /tʃ/?
Poster presented at the XVIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
City University of Hong Kong, 17-21.08.11

Jana Brunner & Marzena Żygis
Why do glottal stops and low vowels like each other?
Poster presented at the XVIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
City University of Hong Kong, 17-21.08.11

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Żygis
Glottal marking of vowel-initial words in German.
Poster presented at the XVIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
City University of Hong Kong, 17-21.08.11

Blaszczak, Joanna & Marzena Żygis
Sprache und Identität: soziolinguistische Studie über deutsch-polnische Kinder in Berlin.
[Language and identity: a soziolinguistic study on German-Polish children in Berlin.]
BBL, ZAS, Berlin, 26.05.11

Żygis, Marzena & Jana Brunner
Why do glottal stops and low vowels like each other?
Manchester Phonology Meeting 19
University of Manchester, 19-21.05.11

Żygis, Marzena
Über die Markierung der prosodischen Grenzen: Deutsch und Polnisch kontrastiv. (invited talk)
[On marking prosodic boundaries: German and Polish]
Konferenz: Grammatische Kontraste und Konvergenzen
Mannheim, Institut für Deutsche Sprache. 15-17.03.11

Żygis, Marzena & Jaye Padgett
The role of contrast in sibilant inventories.
Conference on Phonetic Universals
Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 29-30.10.10

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Żygis
On glottalization in German.
Poster presented at 'Phonetics & Phonology 6'
Universität Frankfurt/Main, 15-16.10.10

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Żygis
On glottalization in German.
ZAS Klausurtagung
Sauen, 7-8.10.10

Bernd Pompino-Marschall & Marzena Żygis
On glottalization in German.
Summer School on Cognitive and Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-Perception Interaction
Berlin, 27-28.09.10

Bernd Pompino-Marschall & Marzena Żygis
On glottalization in German.
Poznan Linguistic Meeting 41
Gniezno, 23-24.09.10

Żygis, Marzena
Universal properties of contrast dispersion and their phonetic realisation.
Poznan Linguistic Meeting 41
Gniezno, 23-24.09.10

Żygis, Marzena
Experimental methods in phonology: A critical view. (invited talk)
University of Szczecin. 26.05.10

Żygis, Marzena & Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Phonetic and lexical gradience in Polish prefixed words.
Sauen, ZAS Klausurtagung, 2-3.07.09

Marzena Żygis
The structure of sibilant inventories. (invited talk)
Workshop on 'Experimental phonetics and sound change'
University of Salamanca, 11.05.09

Stefanie Jannedy & Marzena Żygis
Emerging sounds.
DGfS- Workshop on Form and Functions of Deletions and Insertions in Speech
Universität Osnabrück, 4.03.09

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
Why are voiced affricates avoided cross-linguistically? Evidence from an aerodynamic study.
Konferenz Phonetics & Phonology 5
Universität zu Köln, 3.03.09

Żygis, Marzena, Recasens, Daniel & Aina Espinosa
Acoustic characteristics of velar stops and velar softening in German, Polish and Catalan.
Poster presentation at the 8th International Speech Production Seminar
Strasbourg, 8-12.12.08

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
Why are voiced affricates avoided cross-linguistically? Evidence from an aerodynamic study.
8th International Speech Production Seminar
Strasbourg, 8-12.12.08

Żygis, Marzena & Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Does lexical frequency influence phonetic realization of prefix-stem juncture in Polish complex words? (invited talk)
Workshop on ‘Prosodic Alignment at the Word Level’
IDS Mannheim, 20-21.10.08

Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona & Marzena Żygis
Phonetic effects at the prefix-stem juncture in Polish and its phonological interpretation.
Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Gniezno, 12-13.09.08

Żygis Marzena
Insertions from a phonological and phonetic perspective.
Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Gniezno, 12-13.09.08

Żygis Marzena
Boundary phenomena in speech.
ZAS Klausurtagung, Sauen, 10-11.09.08

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
Why are voiced affricates avoided cross-linguistically? Evidence from an aerodynamic study.
Poster presented at ‘Workshop on Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity’
Universität München. 31.07-2.08.08

Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs
Voicing in affricates from the aerodynamic perspective.
Workshop: Phonetics & Phonology at ZAS 5, 18.12.07

Marzena Żygis
Why do we need perceptually based features?
Conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 7
Universität Leipzig, 1-2.12.07

Marzena Żygis
Phonetic grounding of voicing in coronals.
Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Gniezno, 13-16.09.07

Marzena Żygis
Contrast voicing in Slavic languages.
2nd Congress of the Slavic Linguistic Society
Berlin, 22-26.08.07

Marzena Żygis
Phonetische Explikationen der Stimmhaftigkeitstypologie. (invited talk)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Institut für Slawistik, 25.06.07.

Marzena Żygis
Konfligierende Parameter des Markiertheitskonzepts anhand von R-Lauten.
Habilitationsvortrag
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 7.02.07

Marzena Żygis
On the cross-linguistic dispreference of the voiced sibilant affricates.
Old World Conference in Phonology 4.
Rhodes, Greece. 19-21.01.07

Marzena Żygis
Explaining phonological patterns by aerodynamics: Voicing in affricates.
Workshop 'Phonetics & Phonology at ZAS'
ZAS, Berlin. 27.11.06

Fuchs, Susanne, Żygis, Marzena, Brunner, Jana & Anke Busler
Supralaryngeal movements in the realisation of the voicing contrast. A cross-linguistic study on sibilants.
Konferenz 'Phonetik und Phonologie 3'.
Universität Stuttgart. 13.10-14.10.06

Marzena Żygis
Slavic sibilants from a synchronic and diachronic perspective.
Konferenz 'Phonetik und Phonologie 3'.
Universität Stuttgart. 13.10-14.10.06

Jaye Padgett & Marzena Żygis
A perceptual study of Polish fricatives, and its relation to historical sound change.
Poster presented at Tenth Conference on Laboratory Phonology.
Paris. 29.06.-1.07.06

Jaye Padgett & Marzena Żygis
The functional bases of contrast and neutralization (invited talk)
Sprachwissentschaftlich-sprachdidaktisches Kolloquium.
Universität Siegen. 18.05.06

Jaye Padgett & Marzena Żygis
Sound change, allophony and perception (invited talk)
Universität Stuttgart. 31.05.06

Susanne Fuchs, Marzena Żygis, Jana Brunner, Anke Busler, Hristo Velkov & Pascal Perrier
Temporal and spacial aspects in the realisation of voiced and voiceless sibilants
in different word positions.
5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control.
Nijmegen. 7-10.06.06

Marzena Żygis
Articulatory variability, perceptual categorisations and phonological features.
Workshop 'Phonetics&Phonology at ZAS (3)'.
ZAS, Berlin. 9.03.06

Susanne Fuchs, Marzena Żygis, Jana Brunner, Anke Busler, Hristo Velkov & Pascal Perrier
Temporal and spacial aspects in the realisation of voiced and voiceless sibilants
in different word positions.
Workshop 'Phonetics&Phonology at ZAS (3)'. ZAS, Berlin. 9.03.06

Tracy Alan Hall, Silke Hamann & Marzena Żygis
Acoustic and aerodynamic evidence for the distinction between /i/ and /j/ as triggers for stop assibilations.
The Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America.
Albuquerque, USA. 8.01.06

Marzena Żygis
Non(retroflexivity) of Slavic affricates and its motivation. Evidence from Polish and Czech .
Conference on Turbulances. ZAS, Berlin. 13-14.10.2005

Marzena Żygis
The phonetic motivation for context free changes or why postalveolars change to retroflexes.
Workshop 'Phonetics and Phonology at ZAS' (2)
ZAS, Berlin. 6.09.05

Jaye Padgett & Marzena Żygis
Multidimensional scaling analysis of sibilants as perceived by Polish and English speakers.
Workshop 'Phonetics and Phonology at ZAS' (2)
ZAS, Berlin. 6.09.05

Tracy Alan Hall, Silke Hamann & Marzena Żygis
Acoustic and aerodynamic evidence for stop assibilation.
Conference on Manner Changes in Phonology.
ZAS, Berlin. 23-24.06.05

Tracy Alan Hall, Silke Hamann & Marzena Żygis
The phonetic motivation of stop assibilation.
Poster presented at the 2nd Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI2)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. 20-21 06.05

Bozena Cetnarowska & Marzena Żygis
Syllabification and the visibility of the internal morphological complexity: the case of prefixed formations in Polish.
7th Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics.
University of Silesia, Cieszyn, Poland, 6-9.09.04

Marzena Żygis
The voicing contrast in Slavic sibilant systems.
ZAS, Berlin, 23.07.04

Tracy Alan Hall, Silke Hamann & Marzena Żygis
The phonetic motivation of stop assibilation.
Poster presented at the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology 'Change in Phonology'.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 24-26.06.04

Marzena Żygis
tS or µ´? Polish affricates revisited.
Poster presented at Workshop on Controversial Issues in Polish Phonetics and Phonology
35th Poznan Linguistic Meeting. 19.05.04

Żygis, Marzena & Silke Hamann
Retroflex fricatives in Polish.
Workshop on Controversial Issues in Polish Phonetics and Phonology.
35th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 18-20.05.04

Hall, Tracy Alan, Silke Hamann & Marzena Żygis
The phonetics of assibilations.
Workshop ‚Die Phonetik/Phonologie Schnittstelle‘ der 26 Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft.
Johanness Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, 25-27.02.04

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Żygis
Surface palatalization of Polish bilabial stops: articulation and acoustics.
The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Barcelona, 3-9.08.03

Żygis, Marzena & Silke Hamann
Perceptual and acoustic cues of Polish coronal fricatives.
The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Barcelona, 3-9. 08.03

Padgett, Jaye & Marzena Żygis
Dispersion theory and the phonology of sibilants.[keynote]
Phonology Forum 2003
Kobe College, Japan, 1-3.09.03

Padgett, Jaye & Marzena Żygis
The evolution of sibilants in Polish and Russian.(invited talk)
Workshop on Phonology-Phonetics Interaction.
Schloss Freudental, 4-7.06.03

Padgett, Jaye & Marzena Żygis
Contrast and allophony: the evolution of sibilants in Polish and Russian.
Southwestern Optimality Theory Workshop 8
University of Arizona, 24-26.04.03

Cetnarowska, Bozena & Marzena Rochoń
Semantic compositionality and syllabification across a prefix-stem boundary in Polish
ZAS, Berlin, 8.07.02

Hamann, Silke & Marzena Rochoń
Preferences in sibilant fricative systems: postalveolar puzzlement in Slavic languages.
Poster presented at Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology "Varieties of Phonological Competence",
Yale University and Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, 27-29.06.02

Marzena Rochoń
Extrasilabicity and prosodic words boundaries (invited talk)
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin 17.05.02

Marzena Rochoń
Sibilants in Slavic, Germanic and Indo-Aryan languages. Phonetic and phonological typology. (invited talk)
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, 5.05.02

Marzena Rochoń
The role of perception in Slavic sibilant systems.
Second Conference on Contrast in Phonology.
University of Toronto, 3-5.05.02

Marzena Rochoń
Coronal affricates and fricatives in Slavic languages.
Fourth European Conference on Formal Description Of Slavic Languages,
Potsdam Universität, 28.11.01

Tracy A. Hall, Laura Downing and Marzena Rochoń
Zum Status des Phonologischen Wortes: Evidenz aus drei Sprachfamilien
ZAS Berlin, 15.06.01

Marzena Rochoń
The role of the phonological word in Slavic languages: voicing phenomena
Europäische Slavistische Linguistik, Polyslav V
Prag, 27-28.09.01

Marzena Rochoń
R-sounds from a Typological Perspective
Conference on Recent Developments in Slavic Phonetics.
University of Torun, Poland, 9-10.05.01

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Rochoń
Palatalization processes in Polish from an articulatory and acoustic point of view: surface palatalization of labials.
Phonology Meeting, ZAS, 23.04.01

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Rochoń
Palatalization processes in Polish from an articulatory and acoustic point of view: surface palatalization of labials.
Workshop on ‘Phonetics-Phonology Interface: Palatalization’ as part of the 33rd Poznañ Linguistic Meeting
Poznan, 27-29.04.01

Marzena Rochoń
Markedness of Trills: Palatalization of r in Polish
Generative Linguistics in Poland 3
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 7-8. 04.2001

Marzena Rochoń
The interaction of stress and syllable structure in Slavic languages
Konferenz Über Historische Linguistik und Grammatiktheorie V: Komplexität und Markiertheit
ZAS, Berlin, 1-2.12.2000

Marzena Rochoń
The interaction of stress and syllable structure in Slavic languages
Europäische Slavistische Konferenz, POLYSLAV IV
Kazimierz, Poland 2-4.10.2000

Marzena Rochoń
Prosodic constituents in the representations of consonantal sequences in Polish
Workshop: Das Wort in der Phonologie
22. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
Philipps-Universität Marburg.1.03.2000

Marzena Rochoń
Syllabification in Polish: an OT Account
Third European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages
Leipzig. 2.12.1999

Pompino-Marschall, Bernd & Marzena Rochoń
The articulation of secondarily palatalized coronals in Polish.
XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
San Francisco. 6.08.1999

Marzena Rochoń
Optimality in complexity: the case of Polish consonant clusters
Dissertationsverteidigung
Humboldt University, Berlin.5.07.1999

Marzena Rochoń
Coronal palatalization in Polish: an OT-account
Europäische Slavistische Konferenz, POLYSLAV’98.
Humboldt University, Berlin. 8.10.1998

Marzena Rochoń
Towards optimization of PF: Asymmetrical behavior of labials, coronals and velars with respect to palatalization.
Berichtscolloquium des Graduiertenkollegs (DFG).
Berlin.12.06. und 26.06.1998

Blaszczak, Joanna & Marzena Rochoń
Lexicon optimization: The promotion of the optimal!?’
31th Poznan Linguistic Meeting.
Poznan, 1-04.05.1998

Marzena Rochoń
How does economy work? The case of palatalized labials and coronals in Polish consonant clusters.
Colloquium des Graduiertenkollegs.
Humboldt University, 6.02.1998

Marzena Rochoń
Some remarks on palatalized labials in Polish
Colloquium der Stipendiaten, GK, Humblodt-Universität 16.01.1998
Doktorantencolloquium, Universität Potsdam, 7.01., 14.01.1998

Marzena Rochoń
Some reflections on Polish consonant clusters from a diachronic perspective
Colloquium GK, Berlin, 30.05.1997

Marzena Rochoń
Some Remarks on minimality and optimality, not only in language
30th Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Poznan, Polen. 1-3.05.1997