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I am a researcher in General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. In September 2025, I am starting as an Associate Researcher (Chargé de Recherches) at Lacito, CNRS.
I received my PhD at Inalco (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) in 2015 and spent almost three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley. I came to Helsinki in 2017 to work at the Helsinki University Humanities Programme (2017-2020).
My research sits at the intersection of descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. I am a committed fieldworker, specializing in Mande languages of West Africa. I am especially interested in language contact and multilingualism which I approach holistically, my toolkit including ethnographic, variationist and theoretical perspectives. My current research project supported by a grant from the Kone Foundation and by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award studies diasporic communities of Mano and Kpelle speakers in Conakry (Guinea) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) and focuses on psycholinguistic aspects of heritage language development.
My CV with pdfs of most publications can be found here.
My personal website gives a fuller overview of my research projects and a glimpse on the ongoing work.
I earned my PhD in Linguistics, summa cum laude, from Inalco, Paris, France, in 2015, my MA in Sociology from Collège Universitaire Français, Moscow, Russia, in 2011, my MA and BA in Linguistics from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 2010.
visiting scholar, CNRS-LLACAN. Villejuif.
1 Apr 2017 → 1 Jul 2018
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Conference materials › Paper
Khachaturyan, M. (Principal Investigator), Konoshenko, M. (Participant), Carrier-Bordeleau, S. (Participant) & Mamy, P. (Participant)
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2029
Project: Foundations (Private Foundations, Non-Profit Foundations, Charitable Trusts)
Khachaturyan, M. (Principal Investigator), Maslinsky, K. (Participant), Konoshenko, M. (Participant) & Carrier-Bordeleau, S. (Participant)
Academy of Finland, Kone Foundation
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2024
Project: Research project
Khachaturyan, M. (Principal Investigator), Konoshenko, M. (Participant), Maslinsky, K. (Participant), Petrukhin, P. (Participant) & Sitchinava, D. (Participant)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research project
Khachaturyan, M. (Principal Investigator)
01/04/2017 → 01/07/2018
Project: Research project
Khachaturyan, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Konoshenko, M. (Speaker) & Khachaturyan, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Khachaturyan, M. (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Khachaturyan, M. (Member of organizing committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Konoshenko, M. (Speaker) & Khachaturyan, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation