Anna Balas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1719409 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Balas |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Balas |
| FIRMA | BALAS A |
| AFILIACIONES | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1740-5114 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
MMN and LDN asymmetries in Polish–English–Norwegian trilingual listeners
Purpose: This paper presents event-related potential (ERP) findings from a study investigating mismatch negativity (MMN) and late discriminative negativity (LDN) response asymmetries in trilingual listeners. The research aimed to explore phonetic representation in multilingual individuals. While theories predicting privative feature specification suggest stronger MMN and (potentially) LDN effects when the standard auditory stimuli have a feature …
Bilingualism matters
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners
Phoneme discrimination is believed to be less accurate in non-native languages compared to native ones. What remains unclear is whether differences in pre-attentive phonological processing emerge between the first foreign language (L2) and additional ones (L3/L n ), and whether they might be influenced by the acquisition setting (formal vs. naturalistic). We conducted an event-related brain potential oddball study with native Polish learners of E…
Perceived cross-linguistic similarity of retroflexes in trilingual, bilingual and native listener groups
Ferenczi a Pszichoanalizis Fele Preanalitikus Írások 1897–1908 (Ferenczi, Preanalytic Writings 1897–1908)
Traumatizing Societies and Resilient Children
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study
There is a scarcity of research into the relationship between speech perception and production from a multilingual perspective. The present exploratory study investigates longitudinally the acquisition of rhotic sounds in 24 adolescent learners who have the same language repertoires (English, German, Polish), with English being their L2, and German and Polish their L1 or L3. The design involved a forced-choice goodness task (for perception) and a…
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition
This study investigates sources of phonological cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at the initial stages of third language (L3) acquisition in light of the predictions of the second language (L2) Status Factor Model, the Typological Primacy Model, the Cumulative Enhancement Model, the Linguistic Proximity Model and the Scalpel Model. The productions of L3 rhotic sounds, /w/ and final obstruent devoicing, elicited in a delayed repetition task, were …
Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions
I have long been interested in integrating the development of theories regarding psychic trauma and interweaving them with classical conflict theory. For this reason, I have followed the Sandor Fer
Differences in phonological awareness of young L3 learners
This study aims to investigate the nature of phonological awareness in young L3 learners, and the extent to which it changes over time as L2 and L3 learning progresses. Two groups of 12 closely matched multilinguals (total= 24, aged 12–13), who shared their L2 (English) but their L1/L3 (German/Polish) were mirrored, mimicked L2 and L3 accents in their L1 speech and reflected over their mimicry performance at the beginning and at the end of the fi…
Cross-Linguistic Interactions in Third Language Acquisition
Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in reshaping the previously established ones. Only a few studies to date have examined cross-linguistic effects in the speech perception of multilingual learners. The aim of this study is to explore the development of speech perception in young multilinguals' non-native lang…
English vowel perception by Polish advanced learners of English
This article examines English vowel perception by advanced Polish learners of English in a formal classroom setting (i.e., they learnt English as a foreign language in school while living in Poland). The stimuli included 11 English noncewords in bilabial (/bVb/), alveolar (/dVd/) and velar (/gVg/) contexts. The participants, 35 first-year English majors, were examined during the performance of three tasks with English vowels: a categorial discrim…
Book Essay
Cross-Linguistic Interactions in Third Language Acquisition
Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in reshaping the previously established ones. Only a few studies to date have examined cross-linguistic effects in the speech perception of multilingual learners. The aim of this study is to explore the development of speech perception in young multilinguals' non-native lang…
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study
There is a scarcity of research into the relationship between speech perception and production from a multilingual perspective. The present exploratory study investigates longitudinally the acquisition of rhotic sounds in 24 adolescent learners who have the same language repertoires (English, German, Polish), with English being their L2, and German and Polish their L1 or L3. The design involved a forced-choice goodness task (for perception) and a…
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition
This study investigates sources of phonological cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at the initial stages of third language (L3) acquisition in light of the predictions of the second language (L2) Status Factor Model, the Typological Primacy Model, the Cumulative Enhancement Model, the Linguistic Proximity Model and the Scalpel Model. The productions of L3 rhotic sounds, /w/ and final obstruent devoicing, elicited in a delayed repetition task, were …
Differences in phonological awareness of young L3 learners
This study aims to investigate the nature of phonological awareness in young L3 learners, and the extent to which it changes over time as L2 and L3 learning progresses. Two groups of 12 closely matched multilinguals (total= 24, aged 12–13), who shared their L2 (English) but their L1/L3 (German/Polish) were mirrored, mimicked L2 and L3 accents in their L1 speech and reflected over their mimicry performance at the beginning and at the end of the fi…
Book Essay
English vowel perception by Polish advanced learners of English
This article examines English vowel perception by advanced Polish learners of English in a formal classroom setting (i.e., they learnt English as a foreign language in school while living in Poland). The stimuli included 11 English noncewords in bilabial (/bVb/), alveolar (/dVd/) and velar (/gVg/) contexts. The participants, 35 first-year English majors, were examined during the performance of three tasks with English vowels: a categorial discrim…
Cross-Linguistic Interactions in Third Language Acquisition
Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in reshaping the previously established ones. Only a few studies to date have examined cross-linguistic effects in the speech perception of multilingual learners. The aim of this study is to explore the development of speech perception in young multilinguals' non-native lang…
Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions
I have long been interested in integrating the development of theories regarding psychic trauma and interweaving them with classical conflict theory. For this reason, I have followed the Sandor Fer
Differences in phonological awareness of young L3 learners
This study aims to investigate the nature of phonological awareness in young L3 learners, and the extent to which it changes over time as L2 and L3 learning progresses. Two groups of 12 closely matched multilinguals (total= 24, aged 12–13), who shared their L2 (English) but their L1/L3 (German/Polish) were mirrored, mimicked L2 and L3 accents in their L1 speech and reflected over their mimicry performance at the beginning and at the end of the fi…
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study
There is a scarcity of research into the relationship between speech perception and production from a multilingual perspective. The present exploratory study investigates longitudinally the acquisition of rhotic sounds in 24 adolescent learners who have the same language repertoires (English, German, Polish), with English being their L2, and German and Polish their L1 or L3. The design involved a forced-choice goodness task (for perception) and a…
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition
This study investigates sources of phonological cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at the initial stages of third language (L3) acquisition in light of the predictions of the second language (L2) Status Factor Model, the Typological Primacy Model, the Cumulative Enhancement Model, the Linguistic Proximity Model and the Scalpel Model. The productions of L3 rhotic sounds, /w/ and final obstruent devoicing, elicited in a delayed repetition task, were …
Ferenczi a Pszichoanalizis Fele Preanalitikus Írások 1897–1908 (Ferenczi, Preanalytic Writings 1897–1908)
Traumatizing Societies and Resilient Children
Bilingualism matters
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners
Phoneme discrimination is believed to be less accurate in non-native languages compared to native ones. What remains unclear is whether differences in pre-attentive phonological processing emerge between the first foreign language (L2) and additional ones (L3/L n ), and whether they might be influenced by the acquisition setting (formal vs. naturalistic). We conducted an event-related brain potential oddball study with native Polish learners of E…
Perceived cross-linguistic similarity of retroflexes in trilingual, bilingual and native listener groups
MMN and LDN asymmetries in Polish–English–Norwegian trilingual listeners
Purpose: This paper presents event-related potential (ERP) findings from a study investigating mismatch negativity (MMN) and late discriminative negativity (LDN) response asymmetries in trilingual listeners. The research aimed to explore phonetic representation in multilingual individuals. While theories predicting privative feature specification suggest stronger MMN and (potentially) LDN effects when the standard auditory stimuli have a feature …
Psychology (12 obras) · Linguistics (8 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 obras) · Cognitive psychology (5 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 obras) · Perception (5 obras) · German (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)