Mariya Kharaman

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Neuroscience of language/Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; First and Second Language Acquisition 
  • Phonology in the mental lexicon; functional organization of the auditory cortex with respect to phonological representations in the mental lexicon
  • Bi- and multilingualism

Talks and Conferences

2018


Kharaman, M., Eulitz, C. Distinctive features in the brain: Evidence from MEG and EEG studies (talk). Fachbereichskolloquium, University of Konstanz.


2016


Kharaman, M., Eulitz, C. On the role of different acoustic cues in encoding voicing in Russian and German: a cross-linguistic MMN study (talk). Forschungskolloquium/Research Colloquium, University of Konstanz.


2015


Kharaman, M., Bekemeier, N., Eulitz, C. On the role of different acoustic-phonetic cues in encoding voicing in Russian and German: a cross-linguistic MMN study with native and non-native stop consonants (poster presentation). Error Signals from the Brain – 7th Mismatch Negativity Conference (MMN 2015), University of Leipzig.


2014


Kharaman, M., Eulitz, C. Does the auditory evoked M100 component reflect the assembling of phonological features into natural classes? (poster presentation). SNL Annual Meeting, Amsterdam.


2013


Kharaman, M., Eulitz, C. Neural correlates of natural classes (talk). Research Colloquium Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Konstanz.


2012


Kharaman, M., Eulitz, C. Different acoustic cues are used by Russians and Germans to detect voicing differences in speech: Evidence from Mismatch Negativity (poster presentation). CNS Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Biographical Sketch


01.03.2018 – 15.09.2018


Substitute for Dr.Czypionka in project P1 of the research unit "Questions at the Interfaces"


since 2013


PhD student, Neurolinguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany.

2012

M.A. in Linguistics (Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), University of Konstanz, Germany; M.A. thesis: Language-specific acoustic cues and categorization of stop consonants by native speakers of Russian and German

2008

B.A. in Linguistics (Sprachwissenschaft), University of Konstanz, Germany

2005 – 2008
2010 – 2012

Studies at the Linguistic Department, University of Konstanz, Germany

2002 – 2003

Teacher of English; Language Learning Center “LOGO”, Makiivka, Ukraine

2001 – 2003

Teacher at the Department of Germanic Philology, Makiivka Institute of Economics and Arts, Ukraine

2001

Diploma in Philology, English and German, Makiivka Institute of Economics and Arts, Ukraine

1996 – 2001

Studies at the Department of Germanic Philology, Makiivka Institute of Economics and Arts, Ukraine