Andrea Pešková

CV

[ˈandrɛaˈpɛʃkɔvaː]

(she/her/hers)


I am a linguist and private lecturer at Osnabrück University’s Institute for Romance and Latin Studies. Since January 2024, I am the head of the DFG funded project “Production and perception of geminate consonants in Italian as a foreign language: Czech, Finnish, German and Spanish learners in contrast” at the Free University of Berlin (see here).

Previously, I was involved in various academic roles and research projects. From 2008 to 2011, I worked on a project examining the intonation of Argentinean Spanish at the Multilingualism Collaborative Research Centre, University of Hamburg. I then joined the Institute for Romance Languages and Literature at the same university, where I completed my PhD in 2014. Afterward, I spent a year at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Cologne (2014-2015), followed by a postdoctoral research position at Osnabrück University (2015-2021).

Additionally, I have held visiting professor and lecturer positions at universities in Osnabrück (2021-2022), Hamburg (2022), Vienna (2022-2023), and Berlin (Humboldt, 2023).

Linguistics, and science in general, would not exist without questions, and the following questions in particular inform and drive my research and teaching:  What are the components of human language? How do languages vary and what intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic factors influence or limit this variation?  What do languages sound like?  How do their sounds change over time and why? How do languages in contact situations influence each other? How do new languages arise and why do they die out? How do babies and children learn a language? Why do we make errors when we speak a foreign language? What does it mean to have a foreign accent? And many more. (see also here).

ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6077-9034

ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Peskova

Academia.edu
https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/AndreaPešková

GoogleScholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ao1dnEAAAAJ&hl=de

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-andrea-peskova-736202252/

EDUCATION

18.12.2020     
  • Habilitation, Osnabrück University, Germany
  • Thesis: “L2 Spanish and Italian Intonation: Accounting for the Different Patterns Displayed by L1 Czech and German Learners”
  • Reviewers: Laura Colantoni, Frank Kügler, Trudel Meisenburg
  • Scientific lecture as part of habilitation process: How resistant are heritage speakers to cross-linguistic influence in (morpho-)syntax? The case of Italian heritage speakers in Argentina
27.06.2014     
  • PhD in Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Thesis: “Sujetos pronominales en el español porteño: Implicaciones pragmáticas en la interfaz sintáctico-fonológica”
  • Supervisors: Christoph Gabriel & Susann Fischer
  • “Werner-Krauss-Dissertationspreis des deutschen Hispanistenverbandes”
  • https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/454936
2008     
  • Master in Spanish Linguistics (University of Hamburg, Germany)
2002     
  • Master in History and Language studies (Silesian University of Opava, Czech Republic)

ACADEMIC POSTS

since 17.01.2024  
  • Principal investigator of a DFG-project
  • Institute for Romance Studies, Free University of Berlin
01.10.2023-31.03.2024  
  • Lecture for Italian linguistics
  • Institute for Romance Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
01.10.2022-30.06.2023  
  • Interim professorship (Spanish linguistics)
  • Institute for Romance Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
01.04.2022-30.09.2022   
  • Interim professorship (Italian linguistics)
  • Institute for Romance Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany
01.04.2021-31.03.2022    
  • Interim professorship (Romance linguistics)
  • Institute for Romance and Latin Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany
01.10.2015-31.03.2021    
01.10.2014-30.09.2015    
01.08.2011-31.03.2015
01.09.2008-30.06.2011      
2007-2008        

Tutorials at the University of Hamburg on the following topics:

  • Media studies for Linguistics
  • Introduction to Romance Linguistics
  • and a tutorial for the University of Hamburg’s International Program for Students and Alumni

VISITING

October, November 2024: 
  • Data collection for the DFG-project and academic exchange in Prague (Czech Republic) and Helsinki (Finnland)

November 2020 (canceled due Covid-pandemics): 

  • One month-long stay at the Università del Salento in Lecce: working with Prof. Barbara Gili Fivela
September 2020 (canceled due Covid-pandemics):
  • A three week-long study at the University of Helsinki: working with Prof. Pekka Posio
November 2017: 
  • One week-long stay at the Universidad de Costa Rica (giving a course on intonation)
September 2017:  
  • A three week-long study at the University of Toronto: working with Prof. Laura Colantoni

SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

2021
  • Preis für exzellente Nachwuchsforschung der Universitätsgesellschaft Osnabrück (Habilitation)
2017
  • Financial support granted by Universitätsgesellschaft Osnabrück for the research stay at the University of Toronto, Canada
2015
  • Dissertationspreis Werner Krauss des Hispanistenverbandes (Werner Krauss Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Spanish Studies)
09/2014
  • Travel scholarship granted by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to participate in the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Poznan, Poland
01/2013
  • Travel scholarship granted by the University of Hamburg to participate in the 10th Old World Conference in Phonology in Istanbul, Turkey
09/2012
  • Travel scholarship granted by the University of Hamburg to participate in the international Tone and Intonation conference in Oxford, UK
08/2011
  • Travel scholarship granted by the University of Hamburg to participate in the international conference Variation and Typology: New trends in syntactic research in Helsinki, Finland
04/2008-08/2008
  • Final exam scholarship for excellent international students, granted by the University of Hamburg
04/2007-03/2008
  • Excellence scholarship for international students, granted by the University of Hamburg

LANGUAGE SKILLS 

  • Czech: first language
  • Slovak: Lingua Receptiva
  • German, English, Spanish, Italian: advanced skills
  • Catalan, Finnish, French, Russian, Polish, Portuguese: basic skills
  • Bribri (spoken in Costa Rica), Guaraní (spoken in Paraguay): knowledge of the basic structures

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Software & Tools

  • PRAAT, EXMARaLDA, Labvanced, SPSS, R Studio, Gorilla sc., VARBRUL, SosciSurvey, iMovie, Wideo, LimeSurvey, WordPress
  • Zoom, BigBlueButton, Moodle, Kahoot, Socrative, Sylby, Vocalmatic, Mentimeter, Padlet, Seeing is Believing (Morgan / García 2016)

REVIEWER ACTIVITIES

Journals (selection)
  • Applied Linguistics Review (De Gruyter)
  • db Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  • Estudios de Fonética Experimental (Universitat de Barcelona)
  • Forum Junge Romanistik
  • Isogloss (Open Journal of Romance Linguistics)
  • Laboratory Phonology
  • Languages (MDPI)
  • Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística (RASAL)
  • Revista Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
  • Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada (RAEL)
  • Revista Káñina (Universidad de Costa Rica)
  • SKY Journal of Linguistics (Linguistic Association of Finland)
  • Spanish in Context (John Benjamins)
  • Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (De Gruyter)
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press)
  • Review of the Czech translation of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as part of a team-based evaluation process for the Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) (by invitation from Michaela Hejná, Aarhus University).
Conferences (selection)
  • International symposium Subjects in Romance 2020 (Stockholm)
  • New Sounds 2022, 2025 (Barcelona, Toronto)
  • Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 (Köln, Salento, Barcelona, Nijmegen, Palma de Mallorca)
  • Speech Prosody 2024
  • Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 (Sønderborg)
  • The Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2023 (Prague)
  • Topic, Focus, and Subject: Between grammatical necessity and information-structural load 2023 (Osnabrück)
Special issues
  • Phonetics Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish
    (Brandon Baird, Middlebury College; Osmer Balam, The College of Wooster, Leiden University; María del Carmen Parafita Couto, Leiden University)
  • The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
    (Rajiv Rao, University of Wisconsin)
Books
  • Sónia Frota & Pilar Prieto (eds.) (2015): Intonation in Romance. Oxford, Oxford University Press. In Estudios de Fonética Experimental, ISSN 1575-5533, XXV, 2016, 317-325.
  • Matthias Heinz & Stephan Schmid (2021): Phonetik und Phonologie des Italienischen.” Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. In Martin Becker, Cornelia Ruhe (eds.): Romanische Forschungen (Heft 3–4), 2023, 536–539.
  • Timothy L. Face (2024): Castilian Spanish spontaneous speech: A phonetic analysis of its segments (in preparation for Romanische Forschungen).

MEMBERSHIPS and EDITOR activities

HOBBY

  • reading, traveling, dancing, yoga, cinema, museums, and all kinds of puzzles