Ekaterina Tskhovrebova
Ekaterina earned a Bachelor of Arts in Modern French from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, and a Master of Arts in Language and Communication Studies from the University of Lausanne, with a Specialisation in Pedagogy and Cultural Mediation (HEP Vaud). The title of her Master thesis is “La variation dans l'inventaire vocalique du français contemporain : approche dialectométrique”.
She joined the University of Bern in October 2019 as an assistant for the SNF-funded project of Prof. Dr. Sandrine Zufferey “DIDI – Discovering Discourse: The acquisition of discourse connectives”. The main objective of Ekaterina’s PhD is to investigate the acquisition of discourse connectives by French-speaking teenagers through a series of controlled experiments. Her main research interests lie in experimental linguistics, language acquisition and pragmatics.
Title of PhD Project
The acquisition of discourse connectives in French L1
Research Foci
Experimental linguistics | language acquisition | pragmatics | discourse
