Biljana Cubrovic’s Profile

 Biljana

Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, Serbia  Email: biljana.cubrovic@fil.bg.ac.rs

Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA E-mail: bc327@cornell.edu

Research Interests

Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology, phonetics and phonology of English, French, and Slavic Languages, L2 acquisition of phonetics and phonology

 Education

2004    Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Belgrade

Dissertation Title: Phonological Structure of French Loanwords in Modern  

English

1999      M.A. in Linguistics, University of Belgrade    Thesis: Onomatopoeic Words in English

1997       BA in English language and Literature, University of Belgrade

 

Professional Experience

2012-     Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University

2010-     Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Belgrade

2008-2009       Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University

2005-2010       Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Belgrade

1999-2005       Teaching Assistant, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Belgrade

Grants

2008         Serbian Ministry of Science postdoctoral grant, Cornell University

2006          British Council specialization grant, University College London.

2001-02     Grant for doctoral research, British Scholarship Trust, University of Reading, UK

1997          Best student grant, John Nuveen Center for International Affairs/University of Belgrade, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Books

Profiling English Phonetics. Philologia. 2009 [2nd edition 2011].

Phonological Structure of Recent French Loanwords in Modern English (Fonološka struktura novijih francuskih pozajmljenica u savremenom engleskom jeziku). Philologia/Faculty of Philology. Series: Language Science. 2005.

A Workbook of English Phonology. Philologia. 2003 [2nd edition 2005].

 Co-authored Books

 English Entrance Exam Practice – 5 tests with key and explanatory notes. Philologia. 2003 [2nd  edition, 2003; 3rd edition, 2005] (with Mirjana Daničić, Sergej Macura and Nenad Tomović).

English Entrance Exam Practice 2 – tests with key and explanatory notes. Philologia. 2004 [2nd edition, 2008] (with Mirjana Daničić).

English Entrance Exam Practice 3 – tests with key and explanatory notes. Philologia. 2005 [2nd edition, 2008] (with Mirjana Daničić).

Selected publications

(2002): “Putujuće reči (francuski i engleski) (Words en Route))”. In Put i putovanje u umetnosti i kulturi. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, 259-268.

(2003): “Simbolička značenja engleskih onomatopa (Symbolic Meanings of English Onomatopes)”. Philologia 1, 13-20.

(2004): “Kuda ide RP? (Where is RP Heading to?)”. Philologia 2, 39-44.

(2005): “English Onomatopes”. Romanian Journal of English Studies 2/2005, 24-30.

(2005): “Tipovi fonološke adaptacije engleskih toponima u srpskom jeziku (Types of Phonological Adaptation of English Toponyms in Serbian)”. In Grad u jeziku, književnosti i kulturi. Belgrade: Philologia, 7-15.

(2005): “English phonetics in primary and secondary school curriculum and its impact on high-level education”. In Proceedings of the Tenth Commemorative Conference of the English Phonetic Society of Japan and the First International Congress of Phoneticians of English. Kochi, Japan: University of Kochi, 22-29.

(2005): “Types, scope and impact of phonetic interference in Serbian EFL learners”. The Journal of Intercultural Studies, number 32. Osaka, Japan: The Intercultural Research Institute of Kansai Gaidai University, 43-52.

(2006): “Govornik srpskog jezika u lavirintu engleskog izgovora i pravopisa (A Serbian EFL Speaker in the Labyrinth of Spelling-to-Sound Correspondences)”. In Lice u jeziku, književnosti i kulturi. Belgrade: Philologia, 7-14.

(2006): “Phonological Assimilation of Recent French Loanwords in English: Parameters and Degrees”. In ELLSII75 Proceedings. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, 89-99.

(2006): “Phonetic Assimilation of Recent French and German Loanwords in English – the Case of High Front Rounded Vowel”. In Reading across Borders: Papers in Language and Literary Studies. Nikšić: Faculty of Philosophy, 53-62.

(2008): Cultural and linguistic overlaps in Crnjanski’s Novel about London . In Culture-Bound Translation and Language in the Global Era. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 138-153.

(2008) The English pronunciation in the globalised world or if you can’t beat them…”. In Jezik, književnost, globalizacija: zbornik radova, ur. Vesna Lopičić i Biljana Mišić Ilić. Niš: Filozofski fakultet, 213-223.

(2009): Twisting Cultural Stereotypes: Identifying Nations Linguistically”. Chapter 5 In Recounting Cultural Encounters, ed. by Marija Knežević and Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević.  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 79-87.

(2009) (with Biljana Đorić-Francuski): Milos Crnjanski’s Novel about London as the scene of cultural and linguistic interplay among several European nations”. Studies in Cross-Cultural Communication – looking, touching, searching. Osaka, Japan: Osaka International University, 31-53, 2009.

(2009): The Accentuation Patterns of Recent French Loanwords in English”. Ta(l)king English Phonetics Across Frontiers, ed. by Biljana Čubrović and Tatjana Paunović.  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 81-89.

(2009): Trendy changes or changing trends: the pronunciation of British English. Philologia 7.

(2010) (with Miloš D. Đurić) Constructing, reconstructing and deconstructing the case of redundancy and/or relevance of English nasal and/or nasalised vowels”. Constructing, Deconstructing, Reconstructing Language and Literature Matters, ed. by A. Nikčević Batrićević and M. Knežević. Nikšić: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro, 119-130.

(2011): Voice Onset Time in Serbian and Serbian English. English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, Vol. VIII, Spring, 2011, 9-18.

(2012): Evolution of a Phonetic Phenomenon: The Case of Voice Onset Time in Serbian Intermediate EFL Learners”. Exploring English Phonetics, ed. by T. Paunović & B. Čubrović, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 47-55.

 

Invited Conference Presentations

“Types, scope and impact of phonetic interference in Serbian EFL learners”. Phonetics and English Language Education. Kansai Gaidai University, November 7, 2005, Osaka, Japan.

“Serbian in English – Phonetics Interference Matters”. Applied Linguistics Circle, University of Reading, UK, November 14, 2006.

English VOT – Cross-linguistic Perspectives”.  Anglistics in the Century of Change, A

Tribute to 90 Years of English Studies in Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of

Arts, Department of English, December 11-12, 2009.

TEACHING

 English phonetics

English phonology

Acoustic phonetics

English morphosyntax

English syntax

Outside Professional Activities

Editor-in-Chief of The Philologia Journal, 2004

Associate Editor for The Linguistics Journal, 2007

Professional Organizations

ELTA, Philologia, Serbian Association of English Academics, European Council for Languages, English Scholars Beyond Borders