Svetlana Vetchinnikova

Svetlana Vetchinnikova

PhD

  • PL 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)

    00014

    Finland

20142025

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Personal profile

Curriculum vitae

I obtained my PhD in English Philology from the University of Helsinki in 2014. Between 2014 – 2018, I worked as a post-doc in research projects on variation and change in English and on chunking in speech processing with Anna Mauranen. From 2018 – 2020, I was a university lecturer in English Linguistics at the Department of Languages. In 2021, I joined the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies as Core Fellow. I am currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Collegium.

Education information

PhD in English Philology (2014)
Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
Supervisors: Anna Mauranen, Tuula Lehtonen,
Examiners: Susan Hunston, Nick Ellis
Grade: laudatur

Research interests

I am interested in chunking at different levels of language organization, individual variation, and modelling language as a complex system. In my current project “Language at the individual level: a radical usage-based approach”, I use corpus and behavioural speech processing data to study the extent to which we differ in how we produce and comprehend language.

Fields of Science

  • 6121 Languages
  • corpus linguistics
  • cognitive linguistics
  • second language acquisition
  • language change
  • applied linguistics
  • English as a lingua franca (ELF)