Dr Ksenia Gnevsheva
Areas of expertise
- Linguistics 2004
- Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science 200404
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics 200401
- Language Studies 2003
- English As A Second Language 200303
- Central And Eastern European Languages (Incl. Russian) 200304
Research interests
Ksenia’s main linguistic interest lies at the intersection of sociophonetics and second language acquisition. Her current work focuses on sociolinguistic variation in bilingual speakers in production and perception.
Biography
I am a Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the ANU. I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), a M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Arizona (USA), and a B.A. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the Saratov State University (Russia). Before joining the ANU in 2017, I worked as a Linguistic Scientist in Research and Development at Fluent Scientific, Ltd. In addition to English and Russian, I have significant familiarity with French, Korean, Polish, and Spanish.
Researcher's projects
- Sociophonetic variation in bilingual speakers.
- Second dialect acquisition in a second language.
- Accentedness perception and linguistic discrimination.
- Accent identification and attitudinal evaluation.
- L2 acquisition in a study-abroad context.
- Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a foreign language context.
- Using ultrasound imaging in L2 teaching.
Available student projects
I welcome proposals for research in any of the areas listed in the research interests section above.
Additionally, I have data that could be used for specific projects by Honours/Masters students:
1. Second dialect acquisition.
2. Second dialect acquisition in a second language.
3. Second language acquisition in a study-abroad context.
4. Sociolinguistic variation in second language speakers of English.
5. Sociolinguistic variation in first and heritage language speakers of Russian.
Current student projects
Nilida Liu, Masters thesis, Second dialect acquisition in a second language
Long Yu Lo, Honours thesis, Cantonese L1 English L2 speakers' Cantonese phonetic habits
Past student projects
Yao Lu, Masters thesis, 2020, Accentedness and personality evaluation of Asian and Caucasian non-native English speakers by Asian non-native English listeners
Fearghas Macfarlane, Honours thesis, 2020, Acquisition of English coronal sibilants by L1 Mandarin speakers
Paul Reid, Masters thesis, 2020, A comparison of machine learning algorithms and native speaker perceptual frameworks in the discrimination of phonemic contrasts
Jiahuan Zhang, Honours thesis, 2019, Crosslinguistic influence on adult L2 learners' acquisition of Chinese classifiers
Kayla Sarte, Masters thesis, 2019, The development of phrasal complexity in Filipino L2 English Argumentative Writings
Janice Chan, Honours thesis, 2019, The effectiveness of Duolingo in Chinese acquisition
Publications
- Sarte, K & Gnevsheva, K 2022, 'Noun phrasal complexity in ESL written essays under a constructed-response task: Examining proficiency and topic effects', Assessing Writing, vol. 51.
- Jiao, D & Gnevsheva, K 2022, 'Dialect proficiency and Mandarin rating in dialect identification: The case of Jiangsu province', Journal of Linguistic Geography, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-11.
- Reid, P, Gnevsheva, K & Suominen, H 2022, 'A comparison of machine learning algorithms and human listeners in the identification of phonemic contrasts', Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., Canberra, Australia, pp. 41-45.
- Gnevsheva, K 2021, 'Book Review: Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English', Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 49, no. 3.
- Gnevsheva, K, Szakay, A & Jansen, S 2021, 'Lexical preference in second dialect acquisition in a second language', International Journal of Bilingualism, vol. 26, no. 2.
- Gnevsheva, K 2021, 'Topic affects perception of degree of foreign accent in a non-dominant language', Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 101â121.
- Gnevsheva, K, Szakay, A & Jansen, S 2021, 'Phonetic convergence across dialect boundaries in first and second language speakers', Journal of Phonetics, vol. 89, pp. 1-11.
- Gnevsheva, K 2020, 'The role of style in the ethnolect: Style-shifting in the use of ethnolectal features in first- and second-generation speakers', International Journal of Bilingualism, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 861-880.
- Gnevsheva, K, Gonzalez Ochoa, S & Fromont, R 2020, 'Australian English Bilingual Corpus: Automatic forced-alignment accuracy in Russian and English', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 182-193.
- Inceoglu, S. & Gnevsheva, K. (2020). Ultrasound imaging in the foreign language classroom: Outcomes, challenges, and students’ perceptions. In O. Kang, S. Staples, K. Yaw, & K. Hirschi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference, ISSN 2380-9566, Northern Arizona University, September 2019 (pp. 115–126). Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
- Gnevsheva, K & Buerkle, D 2019, 'Age estimation in foreign-accented speech by native and non-native speakers [IN PRESS]', Language and Speech, vol. Online.
- Jiao, D, Watson, V, Wong, S et al 2019, 'Age estimation in foreign-accented speech by non-native speakers of English', Speech Communication, vol. 106, pp. 118-126pp.
- Szakay, A, Gnevsheva, K & Jansen, S 2019, 'Lexical access by L1 and L2 mono- and bidialectal listeners', 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019, ed. S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., Melbourne, pp. 3245-3249.
- Gnevsheva, K 2018, 'The expectation mismatch effect in accentedness perception of Asian and Caucasian non-native speakers of English', Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 581-598pp.
- Gnevsheva, K 2018, 'Variation in foreign accent identification', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 688-702pp.
- Gnevsheva, K & Lin, J 2018, 'Acoustic and perceptual correlates of comprehensibility in relation to suprasegmental features', New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 56-68.
- Gnevsheva, K 2018, 'Passing for a native speaker: Production and perception', in Jan Volin, Radek Skarnitzl (ed.), The Pronunciation of English by Speakers of Other Languages, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 139-159pp.
- Gnevsheva, K 2017, 'Within-speaker variation in passing for a native speaker', International Journal of Bilingualism, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 213-227.
- Gnevsheva, K 2017, 'Nativelikeness in production and perception: Implications for pedagogy', Current issues in primary, pre�school and specialised education during modernisation, ed. T.U.Makashina and O.B.Shirokih, Moscow Region State Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Russia, pp. 32-33pp.
- Gnevsheva, K 2016, 'Beyond the language: listener comments on extra-linguistic cues in perception tasks', Language Awareness, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 257-271.
- Leach, H, Watson, K & Gnevsheva, K 2016, 'Perceptual dialectology in northern England: Accent recognition, geographical proximity and cultural prominence', Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 192-211.
- Gnevsheva, K 2016, 'The effect of recording setting in accentedness perception', Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand, vol. 59, pp. 23-46pp.
- Gnevsheva, K 2015, 'Style-shifting and intra-speaker variation in the vowel production of non-native speakers of New Zealand English', Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (JSLP), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 135-156.
- Gnevsheva, K 2015, 'Acoustic analysis in the Accents of Non-Native English (ANNE) corpus', International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 256-267.
- Gnevsheva, K 2015, 'Passing for a native speaker: Production and perception', EPIP4 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation, ed. Jan VolÃn, Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, pp. 37-40.
- Gnevsheva, K 2015, 'Intra-speaker variation and 'accentedness' in non-native English speakers', ASLA Symposium, ASLA och Författarna, Sweden, pp. 23-32.
- Gnevsheva, K 2014, 'Book Review: Howard Giles & Bernadette Watson (eds.), The social meanings of language, dialect and accent: International perspectives on speech styles. New York: Peter Lang, 2013', Language in Society, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 361-362.
- Gnevsheva, K 2009, 'Variatsii v yadre mentalnogo leksikona (Variations in the Nucleus of the Mental Lexicon)', Filologicheskie etudy, vol. 12, pp. 193-195.
- Ignatov, A., & Gnevsheva, K 2008, 'Asemanticheskie reaktsii v assotsiativnom slovare (Asemantic Reactions in the Dictionary of Associations)', Filologicheskie etudy, vol. 11, pp. 192-193.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Voices of Regional Australia: The linguistic patterning of local attachment (Secondary Investigator)
- Accented Australian English for Acoustic Modelling (Secondary Investigator)