About Tatiana Luchkina
Faculty
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MIC Related Research
Tatiana Luchkina’s research investigates second language acquisition (SLA) and multilingualism, focusing on prosody, constituent order, and information structure in both L2 and heritage language development. Her work examines how speakers from diverse linguistic backgrounds navigate and integrate prosodic and syntactic features of their target or heritage language, shedding light on the cognitive and structural challenges of bilingualism.
Luchkina’s empirical studies, such as Acquisition of Non-Contrastive Focus in Russian by Adult English-Dominant Bilinguals (Frontiers in Psychology, 2024) and Contrastive Focus is Acquirable: An Investigation of Russian Contrastive Focus with English/Russian Bilinguals (Second Language Research, 2024), highlight the difficulties bilinguals and L2 learners face in acquiring subtle pragmatic and prosodic distinctions, particularly those related to information structure and perceived prominence. Her research advances the scientific understanding of how linguistic knowledge is transferred and reorganized across languages, with implications for both theoretical and applied linguistics.
Beyond SLA, Luchkina has contributed to the study of phonetic variation in bilingual and dialectal settings. Her investigations into vowel allophony in English (Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2022) and cross-linguistic perception of prosodic prominence (Language and Speech, 2021) provide valuable insights into the interplay between acoustic expression, prosodic grammars, and bilingual processing. By integrating experimental methods with SLA and heritage language studies, Luchkina positions her research at the intersection of linguistic theory and language pedagogy.