Dr Sandra Kotzor

Senior Lecturer in English Language & Communication

School of Education

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Phone number: +44 1865 488518

Email: skotzor@brookes.ac.uk

Location: Harcourt Hill A104

Sandra is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication (0.5) and joined the Department in January 2016. She lectures on psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics.

Sandra completed her MA in English Linguistics at the LMU Munich in Germany and then went on to a DPhil in General Linguistics at the University of Oxford where she has been a researcher in the Language and Brain Laboratory since the completion of her doctorate. She is continuing her research work on phonological processing there alongside her work at Oxford Brookes.

Teaching

Undergraduate

U70015 Language Acquisition
U70036 Cognitive Linguistics
U70081 Psycholinguistics

Postgraduate (MA TESOL)

P70016 Language Acquisition
P70017 ELT Changing Methodologies

Supervision

Available to supervise dissertations in the areas of Psycholinguistics, First and Second Language Acqusition and Bilingualism

Research

Sandra’s main research interests lie in the area of lexical storage and morphological and phonological processing, especially with regards to bilingual processing. One particular research topic she is currently setting out to investigate is the effect a dominant second language has on the first language system in late adult bilinguals.

Research group membership

Applied Linguistics Research Group

Research projects

Member of MORPHON (ERC-funded Advanced Grant to Prof. A. Lahiri) in the Language and Brain Lab (University of Oxford)

Further information

My profile on the Language and Brain Lab website

Publications

Recent publications

Lahiri, A. & Kotzor, S. (eds) (2017). The Speech Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and behavioural approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., & Lahiri, A. (2017). Symmetry or asymmetry: Evidence for underspecification in the mental lexicon. In: A. Lahiri & S. Kotzor, The Speech Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and behavioural approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 85-106.

Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A. & Lahiri, A. (2017). Bengali Geminates: Processing and representation. In: H. Kubozono (ed.), The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 187-203.

Ehrenhofer, L., Roberts, A.C., Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., & Lahiri, A. (2017). Asymmetric processing of consonant duration in Swiss German. In: H. Kubozono (ed.), The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 204-229.

Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Roberts, A.C., & Lahiri, A. (2016). Processing of Phonemic Consonant Length: Semantic and Fragment Priming Evidence from Bengali. Language and Speech, 59:83-112.

Professional information

Membership of professional bodies

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Conferences

Recent conferences

2017

Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Wynne, H.S.Z., Lahiri, A. Form vs. morphological complexity in L1 and L2 processing. Conference on Multilingualism (COM2017), Groningen, Netherlands, 6-8 November 2017.

Wynne, Hilary S.Z., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Lahiri, A. Modality-related issues in the processing of morphologically-complex words: Evidence from Bengali. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference (AMLAP), Lancaster, 7-9 September 2017.

Wynne, Hilary S.Z., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Lahiri, A. Processing of morphologically complex words: Evidence from Bengali. 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Nicosia, Cypress, 22-25 June 2017.

Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Wynne, H.S.Z., Lahiri, A. Form vs. morphological complexity in L1 and L2 processing. 10th International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc), Trieste, Italy, 22-24 June 2017.

Zhou, B., Wynne, H.S.Z., Kotzor, S., Lahiri, A. Form Priming and its Interaction with Morphological Processing. 10th International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc), Trieste, Italy, 22-24 June 2017.

2016

Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Alter, K. & Lahiri, A. Place and height mismatch in vowels: MMN evidence. 10th Mental Lexicon Conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21. (Poster presentation)

Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Alter, K. & Lahiri, A. Place and height mismatch in vowels: MMN evidence. 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, UK, August 17-20. (Poster presentation)

2015

Kotzor, S., A.C. Roberts, A. Wetterlin & A. Lahiri. Perception and representation of Bengali nasal vowels. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2015, Glasgow, 10-14 August. (Poster presentation)

2014

Kotzor, S., A. C. Roberts, A. Wetterlin, & A. Lahiri. Pre-attentive processing of duration contrasts: an MMN study. 9th Mental Lexicon Conference (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, September 30 - October 3. (Poster presentation)

Kotzor, S., A. C. Roberts, A. Wetterlin, & A. Lahiri. Pre-attentive processing of duration contrasts: an MMN study. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2014, Amsterdam, August 27-29. (Poster presentation)

Roberts, A. C., S. Kotzor, A. Wetterlin, & A. Lahiri. Cross-linguistic differences in automatic perception of allophonic vowel duration. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2014, Amsterdam, August 27-29. (Poster presentation)

Wetterlin, A., A. C. Roberts, S. Kotzor, J. Koreman, & A. Lahiri. Asymmetric processing of word accent in Norwegian. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2014, Amsterdam, August 27-29. (Poster presentation)

Roberts, A. C., S. Kotzor, A. Wetterlin & A. Lahiri. Neurolinguistic evidence for asymmetric processing of consonant duration. Laboratory Phonology, NINJAL, Tokyo, July 25-27. (Oral presentation)

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