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Yulia Zuban

M.A.

Research Associate (Project RUEG P8)
Institute of Linguistics
Division of English Linguistics (IfLA)

Contact

Keplerstr. 17
70174 Stuttgart
Germany

Office Hours

by appointment via email

Subject

  • L2 Prosody
  • Annotation systems of L2 intonation
  • Intonation and information structure
  • Zerbian, S.; Zuban, Y.; Klotz, M. (2024). Intonational Features of Spontaneous Narrations in Monolingual and Heritage Russian in the U.S.—An Exploration of the RUEG Corpus. Languages, 9, 2. 
  • Martynova, M., Zuban, Y., Szucsich, L., & Gagarina, N. (in press). OV/VO word order in heritage Russian: is transfer at play? Journal of Slavic Linguistics.
  • Zuban, Y., Rathcke, T., & Zerbian, S. (2023). Do Different Majority Languages Lead to Different Intonational Grammars? A Case Study of Yes/No-Questions in Heritage Russian. Heritage Language Journal, 20(1), 1-43. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10016
  • Zerbian, S., Böttcher, M. & Y. Zuban. (2022) Prosody of contrastive adjectives in mono- and bilingual speakers of English and Russian: a corpus study. Proc. Speech Prosody 2022, 812-816.
  • Wiese, H., Alexiadou, A., Allen, S., Bunk, O., Gagarina, N., Iefremenko, K., Martynova, M., Pashkova, T., Rizou, V., Schroeder, C., Shadrova, A., Szucsich, L., Tracy, R., Tsehaye, W., Zerbian, S., Zuban, Y. (2022). Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717973.
  • Zuban, Y., Martynova, M., Zerbian, S., Szucsich, L. & N. Gagarina. (2021). Word order in heritage Russian: clause type and majority language matter. Russian linguistics, 45, 253-281.
  • Zuban, Y., Rathcke, T., Zerbian, S. (2020) Intonation of yes-no questions by heritage speakers of Russian. Proceedings of 10th Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan, 96-100.
  • Wiese, HeikeAlexiadou, ArtemisAllen, ShanleyBunk, OliverGagarina, NataliaIefremenko, KaterynaJahns, EstherKlotz, MartinKrause, ThomasLabrenz, AnnikaLüdeling, AnkeMartynova, MariaNeuhaus, KatrinPashkova, TatianaRizou, VickyRosemarie, TracySchroeder, ChristophSzucsich, LukaTsehaye, WintaiZerbian, SabineZuban, Yulia. (2019). RUEG Corpus (Version 0.2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3236069
  • Zuban, Y., Rathcke, T., & Zerbian, S. “Intonation of yes-no questions in Heritage Russian.” Talk at the lecture Series MA-EASEL: Current Approaches in Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. University of Stuttgart, December 2023.
  • Zuban, Y. “Unexpected use of referents in heritage Russian.” Poster at the Workshop Voices in Contexts. University of Cologne, October, 2023.
  • Zuban, Y., Pashkova, T., Conti, E., Lee, H., Allen, S., Bunk, O., & S. Zerbian. “Left Dislocation in contact: The case of Russian.” Poster at the RUEG Conference - Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research, Humboldt University, September, 2023.
  • Zerbian, S., Zuban, Y., & M. Klotz. “Prosodically-annotated corpus of spontaneous narrations in mono- and heritage Russian.” Poster at the RUEG Conference - Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research, Humboldt University, September, 2023.
  • Zuban, Y., Klotz, M., & Zerbian, S. A prosodically-annotated corpus of spontaneous narrations in mono- and heritage Russian (Poster). Phonetics and Phonology in Europe.  Nijmegen, Netherlands, June, 2023.
  • Zuban, Yulia: “Intonation of heritage speakers of Russian.” Talk at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, June 2023.
  • Zuban, Yulia. “The role of communicative situations in word order choice in heritage Russian.” Poster at the Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies. Istanbul, Turkey. May, 2023.
  • Zuban, Yulia: “Syntactic and prosodic expression of information status by heritage speakers of Russian.” Talk at the 45th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2023), University of Cologne, March 2023.
  • Zuban, Yulia, Rathcke Tamara & Sabine Zerbian: “Do different majority languages lead to different intonational grammars? A case study of yes-no questions in Heritage Russian.” Talk at the lecture Series MA-EASEL: Current Approaches in Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. University of Stuttgart, December, 2022.
  • Martynova, M., Zuban, Y. , Szucsich, L. & N. Gagarina. Embeddings rate in heritage and monolingual Russian. Talk at the Heritage language syntax 3, Paris, France. October, 2022.
  • Zuban, Y., Zerbian, S., Iefrmenko, K., & C. Schroeder. Referent introduction in heritage Russian and heritage Turkish. Poster at the Heritage Languages around the World. Lisbon, Portugal. May, 2022.
  • Martynova, M., Zuban, Y. , Szucsich, L. & N. Gagarina. OV/VO placement in heritage Russian in Germany and the U.S.: Internal Change vs. Transfer. Talk at the Heritage Languages around the World. Lisbon, Portugal. May, 2022.
  • Zerbian, S., Böttcher, M., & Zuban, Y. Prosody of contrastive adjectives in mono- and bilingual speakers of English and Russian: a corpus study. Poster at the11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. May, 2022.
  • Zuban, Yulia, Rathcke Tamara & Sabine Zerbian: “Intonation of yes-no questions by heritage speakers of Russian in the US and Germany.” Talk at the research colloquium “Phonology,” University of Stuttgart, July 2021.
  • Zuban, Yulia. “RUEG Project. Word order in heritage Russian: What drives the difference between heritage speakers and monolinguals?” Invited talk at the course "Herkunftssprachen" at the institute of German linguistics, University of Stuttgart, June 2021.
  • Zuban, Yulia. “Word order, information structure and intonation in heritage Russian in the U.S.” Talk at the research colloquium “Phonology,” University of Stuttgart, June 2021.
  • Zuban, Yulia, Martynova, Maria, Szucsich, Luka, Zerbian, Sabine & Gagarina, Natalia. “Word order in heritage Russian: Transfer effects?“ Poster at the Thirteenth Heritage Language Virtual Research Institute, June 2021.
  • Martynova, Maria, Zuban, Yulia, Szucsich, Luka, Zerbian, Sabine & Natalia Gagarina “Word order in heritage Russian: Transfer effects?“ Talk at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, April 2021.
  • Zuban, Yulia & Sabine Zerbian: “Word Order in Heritage Russian in the US: clause type matters” Poster at the RUEG online Conference “Dynamics of Language Contact – New Perspectives on Emerging Grammars, Variation and Change”, February 2021.
  • Zuban, Yulia, Martynova, Maria, Szucsich Luka, Gagarina Natalia & Sabine Zerbian: “Word order in heritage Russian: majority language and clause type matter” Talk at the Colloquium of Slavic Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin, January 2021.
  • Zuban, Yulia, Rathcke Tamara & Sabine Zerbian: “Intonation of yes-no questions by heritage speakers of Russian.” Talk at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2020), University of Hamburg, March 2020.
  • Zuban, Yulia, Tatiana Pashkova: “Emerging Grammars for Referent Introduction in Heritage Speakers’ Two Languages.” Talk at the 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Alberta, June 2019.
  • Zuban, Yulia: “L2 Question Intonation: Russian Speakers of English.” Talk at GAL research school Elizitationsverfaren in der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung (RSEM), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, March 2017.
  • Zuban, Yulia: “L2 Question Intonation: Russian Speakers of English.” Poster at 42. Österreichische Linguistiktagung at the Workshop ‘Second Language Prosody (SLaP)’.Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, November 2016.

SS17 Basic Phonetics and Phonology

Education:

10/2016 - heute

Research Assistant at the University of Stuttgart

(Specialization Phonology)

01/2015-09/2016

Student Assistant at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of English Linguistics

09/2016

M.A. in English studies, University of Stuttgart, M.A. thesis grade: 1,3

07/2013

B.A. in Journalism, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE Moskau).

Language skills:

Russian       Mother Tongue

English         fluent

German        fluent

French          Basic (A2)

Hungarian     Beginner (A1)

  • Since April 2021: DFG-Projekt RUEG “Dynamics of information structure in language contact” (P8)
  • April 2018 - April 2021: DFG-Projekt RUEG “Intonation and word order in majority English and heritage Russian across speaker populations” (P7).    
  • June 2019 - March 2020: together with Maria Martynova (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Tatiana Pashkova (Universität Kaiserslautern) and Vicky Rizou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Organisation of AG1 "Variation in heritage languages: Language contact vs. internal developments" at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2020) at the University of Hamburg.
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