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General Information

Name Jekaterina Mažara
Date of Birth 9th January 1986
Children 1 child, born in 2020

Academic Positions

  • Jan 2021 -
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
  • May 2016 - Jun 2020
    Project coordination and corpus collection
    SNF funded project on the Morphosyntax and Acquisition of Romansh Tuatschin (SNF funded, PIs Michele Loporcaro and Sabine Stoll), University of Zurich
  • Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
    Researcher
    ERC funded project on Acquisition in Maximally Diverse Languages (PI Sabine Stoll), University of Zurich
  • Apr 2012 - Jun 2015
    Research fellow
    SNF-funded project on Implicit Speech Acts in Political Communication of Post-Soviet Countries (PI Daniel Weiss), University of Zurich
  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2015
    Teaching and research assistant
    Slavic Department, University of Zurich

Education

  • April 2020
    PhD in General Linguistics
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2012
    visiting scholar
    University of California Berkeley, USA
  • August 2010
    MA, double major in Slavic Linguistics and English, minor in General Linguistics
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Dec 2008
    BA, double major in Slavic Studies and English Linguistics and Literature
    University of Zurich, Switzerland

PhD Thesis

  • Dissertation title: Development of Morphological Flexibility in the Acquisition of Aspect - Input Patterns and Children’s Production
    • Supervisors - Prof. Dr. Sabine Stoll (Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich) - Prof. Dr. Jean-Pascal Pfister (Department of Physiology, University of Berne and Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) Thesis committee - Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel (Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich) - Prof. Dr. Elena Lieven (Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience, University of Manchester)