Dr. Sandra Kotzor

Curriculum Vitae

My background is in both English language teaching and (applied) linguistics. I have worked as an English language teacher and teacher trainer in a number of different roles and as a lecturer and researcher in psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition. My main research interest are how people best learn languages and multilingual processing with a focus on morphology and phonology.

since 2023   Organisational Head of English Language Teaching,
                    Department of English Studies, LMU Munich

2022 - 2023 Head of Academic Operations,
                    Integra Deutschinstitut GmbH

2016 - 2021 Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
                    School of Education, Oxford Brookes University

2016 - 2023 Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                    Language and Brain Laboratory, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics
                    University of Oxford
                    ERC Projects “MOR-PHON” and “PERTINACITY” (Prof. Dr. A. Lahiri)

2014 - 2021 Stipendiary Lecturer & Linguistics Organising Tutor
                    St Peter’s College & Hertford College, Oxford

2011 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                    Language and Brain Laboratory, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics
                    University of Oxford
                    ERC project “WORDS” (A. Lahiri)

2006 - 2010 DPhil in General Linguistics and Philology
                    Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, University of Oxford
                    Title: Lexical Opposition. An investigation into central and peripheral antonymy

2004 - 2006 Teacher trainer; ImMEDIAte Teaching – a blended-learning teacher training course
                    Chair for TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Prof. Dr. F. Klippel), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

2001 – 2006 MA in English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL, German
                     Linguistics; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

1999 - 2012 English language teacher, Director of Studies and Course Director
                    Bucksmore Education

Functions and Memberships

since 2008    Member of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)
since 2020    Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Publications

Monographs, edited volumes and book chapters

Lahiri, A. & Kotzor, S. (2023). Consonants, vowels, and nasality: A FUL approach. In: F. Breit,
                  B. Botma, M. van t’Veer, & M. v. Oostendorp (eds), Primitives of Phonological Structure (pp. 209-224).
                  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kotzor, S.   (2022) Antomyms in Mind and Brain: Evidence from English and German. London:
                  Routledge.

Lahiri, A. & Kotzor, S. (eds) (2017). The Speech Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and Behavioural
                  Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: 10.1515/9783110422658.
Kotzor, S.,  Wetterlin, A. & Lahiri, A. (2017a). Symmetry or asymmetry: Evidence for
                  underspecification in the mental lexicon. In: A. Lahiri & S. Kotzor (eds), The Speech
                  Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and Behavioural Approaches (pp. 85–106). Berlin:
                  De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: 10.1515/9783110422658-005.
Kotzor, S.,  Wetterlin, A. & Lahiri, A. (2017b). Bengali Geminates: Processing and
                  representation. In: H. Kubozono (ed.), The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate
                  Consonants (pp. 187–203). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:
                  10.1093/oso/9780198754930.003.0009.
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 (pp. 204–229), Oxford: Oxford
                  University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198754930.003.0010.
Kotzor, S.   (2010). Lexical Opposition. An Investigation into Central and Peripheral Antonymy. PhD
                  dissertation, University of Oxford.

Journal articles

Kim, Y.,  Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2022). Disambiguating Effects of Syllable Position and
              Neighborhood Size: Contributions of Hanja During Sino Korean Processing,
              Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09913-4.
Fritz, I. & Kotzor, S. (2022). Category and analysis: navigating English stress, Speak Out! 67,
              18-25. https://issuu.com/iatefl/docs/so_67_final_?fr=sMGM4NjQ5MzY0Mjg
Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Roberts, A.C., Reetz, H. & Lahiri, A. (2022). Bengali nasal vowels:
              lexical representation and listener perception. Phonetica 79(2), 115-150.
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-2017
*Althaus, N., *Kotzor, S., Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2022). Vowel raising in Bengali verb
              morphology: Interaction of phonology & orthography. Cognition, 222, 104963
              (*joint first authors).
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104963
Meng, Y., Kotzor, S., Xu, C., Wynne, H. & Lahiri, A. (2021). Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index
              of asymmetric processing of consonant duration in fake Mandarin
              geminates. Neuropsychologia, 163, 108063.
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108063
Kim, Y., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2021). Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?:
              Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean.
              Lingua, 264, 103128.
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103128
Wynne, H., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B. Schuster, S., & Lahiri, A. (2021) Asymmetries in the processing
              of affixed words in Bengali. Language, 97(3), 599-628.
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2021.0048
Kotzor, S., Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2021). Still native?: morphological processing in second-
              language immersed speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25(5), 1389–1416.
              DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069211019480
Meng, Y., Kotzor, S., Xu, C., Wynne, H. & A. Lahiri. (2021) Asymmetric influence of vocalic
              context on Mandarin sibilants: Evidence from ERP studies. Frontiers in Human
              Neuroscience, 15, 617318. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.617318.
Kotzor, S., Zhou, B. & Lahiri, A. (2020). (A)symmetry in vowel features in verbs and
              pseudoverbs: ERP evidence, Neuropsychologia 143, 107474.
              DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107474.
Kotzor, S., Schuster, S., Wynne, H. & Lahiri, A. (2020) Form or structure? Morphological
              processing in second-language English speakers: evidence from long-lag lexical
              decision. In: Sanchez-Stockhammer, C., F. Günther & H.-J. Schmid (eds), Language
              in Mind and Brain. Proceedings of the workshop held at LMU Munich on December
              10–11, 2018. Munich: Open Access LMU. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Wynne, H., Zhou, B., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2020). The effect of phonological and
              morphological overlap on the processing of Bengali words. Journal of South Asian
              Linguistics 11, 25-51.
Kotzor, S., Molineaux, B. J., Banks, E. & Lahiri A. (2016). “Fake” gemination in suffixed words
              and compounds in English and German. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
              140(1), 356–367. DOI: 10.1121/1.4955072
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(1), 83–112. DOI: 10.1177/0023830915580189
Kotzor, S., Roberts, A. C., Wetterlin, A. & Lahiri, A. (2016). Perception and representation of
              Bengali nasal vowels. Proceedings of ICPhS 2015.
              https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-
              proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0242.pdf.
Roberts, A. C., Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A. & Lahiri, A. (2014). Asymmetric processing of
              durational differences – electrophysiological investigations in Bengali.
              Neuropsychologia 58, 88–98. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.03.015
Kotzor, S. (2003). Insights from doing a teacher training course in Britain: The intercultural
              project, Englisch 38(3), 117–120.

Recent talks and conference papers

2023      AMLaP 2023 (San Sebasitán, 31st August - 2nd September)
              Poster:       The role of metrical structure (syllables & feet) in L1 and L2 loanword
                                 recognition (with I. Fritz and A. Lahiri)

              56th International IATEFL Conference (Harrogate, UK, 17th April)
              Workshop:  Knowledge is power: How knowledge about prosody affects confidence in
                                 pronunciation teaching (with I. Fritz)

2022      Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2022 (BMRS 2022; Edinburgh, UK, 25th &
              26th October)
              Talk:            Shared loanword recognition in German-English bilinguals: An ERP fragment
                                 priming study (with I. Fritz and A. Lahiri)
              Research Colloquium at the Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft (Prof. J.
              Leimgruber), University of Regensburg (1st June 2022)
              Talk:             Language Processing in L2 acquisition and L1 attrition: examples from
                                  morphology and phonology
              55th International IATEFL Conference (Belfast, UK, 17th – 22nd May)
              Workshop: 'Category and or'angutan: navigating English stress (with I. Fritz)

2021      12th International Conference for Experimental Linguistics (online; 11th – 13th October)
              Talk:            The role of suprasegmental differences in learner word recognition (with I. Fritz
                                 and A.Lahiri)
PronSIG Conference 2021 (IATEFL; online; 2nd October)
              Talk:            Crocodile or Kroko'dil: effects of stress differences on second-language processing
                                 (with I. Fritz)
              Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing Conference (online; 2nd – 4th
              September)
              Talk:            The Role of Lexical Stress Differences in Learner Word Recognition (with I. Fritz
                                 and A. Lahiri)

2020      Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing Conference (online; 3rd – 5th
              September)
              Poster:        Effects of affix ordering in processing: EEG evidence from Bengali (with S.
                                 Schuster, H. Wynne and A. Lahiri)
              CogSci 2020 (Cognitive Science Society; online; 29th July – 1st August)
              Poster:        Vowel raising in Bengali inflectional morphology: Interactions of orthography
                                 and phonology in processing (with N. Althaus and A. Lahiri)
              Oberseminar für Diachrone Linguistik und anglistische Mediävistik (Ludwig-
              Maximilians-Universität München, 9th January)
              Talk:            Morphology in the Brain: How are complex words stored and accessed during
                                 language processing?

2019      Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing Conference (Centre for Cognition
              and Decision Making, Moscow, Russia, 6th – 8th September)
              Poster:       Tri-morphemic words in processing (with S. Schuster, H. Wynne and A. Lahiri)
              Romance Linguistics Seminar (University of Oxford, 28th February)
              Talk:            Effects of knowledge of French on the visual recognition of Romance loanwords
                                 in English: behavioural evidence (with C. Cappellaro)

Teaching

TEFL (since 2001)

General English (ages 6-70)
English for Academic Purposes
Academic Literacy (academic writing, presentations, discussion)
Teacher training

Linguistics (since 2007)

• Psycholinguistics
• Phonetics and Phonolgy
• Bilingualism and English language teaching
• Sociolinguistics
• Second Language Acquisition
• First Language Acquisition
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Semantics and Pragmatics
• Morphology and morphological processing
• Development of the English language
• Introductory courses to general linguistics and syntax
• Research methods for linguistics and applied linguistics
• EEG and behavioural experimental methodology
• Introduction to statistics with R