Tamara Rathcke collaborates in Russian–English language research

Dr Tamara Rathcke, Lecturer in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, is to act as an external cooperation partner on a project entitled ‘Intonation and Word Order in Majority English and Heritage Russian across Speaker Populations’, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council). This research will be conducted at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

The project, led by Professor Sabine Zerbian as Primary Investigator, will look at the two languages of heritage speakers and compare them to monolingual native speakers, adopting a new approach in research on intonation in heritage languages. Tamara will contribute expertise and skills concerning understanding and analysis of Russian intonation and prosody, and will contribute to the modelling of empirical observations.

For full details of the project, please see the webpage.