Julia

Yarmolinskaya

5^th-year graduate student

Department of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Office: Krieger 243
Phone: 410-516-4945
Fax: 410-516-8020
Email: yarmolinskaya@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research Interests

Theoretical Linguistics
- Phonology

Cognitive Neuroscience
- Neurolinguistics of bilingualism

My first-year project examined phenomena of Russian phonology having to do with palatalization of velar and non-velar consonants.

My second-year project is an fMRI study of acquisition of second language phonology. I looked at the behavioral and functional changes that take place in monolingual native English speakers as a result of intensive training in the phonology of Russian.

I also did a project with Dr. Isabelle Barriere investigating consecutive bilingualism in early childhood – a case study of a Russian-English-speaking bilingual child.

I am now working on the extension of the fMRI study and investigate how brain processes native and foreign words and non-words. I am also interested in how we perceive consonants clusters that are illegal in our native language, such as /dl/ at the beginning of a word in English.

Education

M.A. 2004, Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Thesis: Russian Palatalization and Opacity in Optimality Theory (PDF). Advisor: Dr. Luigi Burzio

Thesis: B.A. 2000, Magna Cum Laude in English, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA, USA

Minor: Teaching English as a Second Language

TESL Certificate

B.B.A. 1999, Summa Cum Laude in Management, Russian Institute of Economics and Finance

Thesis: Management of Human Resourses in Ilim Palm Enterprise. Advisor: Dr. Oleg Ovchinnikov

Publications

Yarmolinskaya, J. (2005) Russian Palatalization and Opacity in Optimality Theory. In _Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The South Carolina Meeting, pp. 376-386, ed. Steven Franks, Frank Y. Gladney and Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Conference Presentations

Yarmolinskaya, J. & Barriere, I. The Specificity of Consecutive Bilingualism in Early Childhood: A Case Study of a Russian-English-speaking Child. Paper presented by the first author at the X^th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany, July 25-29, 2005.

Yarmolinskaya, J. & Barriere, I. Consecutive Bilingualism in Early Childhood: Simultaneous Bilingual Acquisition, late L2 learning, or a special developmental trajectory? Paper presented by the first author at the 5^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, Spain, March 20-23, 2005.

Yarmolinskaya, J. & Barriere, I. Cross-Linguistic Influences in Bilingual Acquisition of Russian and English. Paper presented by the first author at the 59^th Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation, Langley, BC, Canada, July 23-26, 2004.

Yarmolinskaya, Julia. Russian Palatalization and Opacity in Optimality Theory. Paper presented at the 12^th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England, May 20-22, 2004.

Yarmolinskaya, Julia. Velar Palatalization in Russian: The Case of Opacity in Optimality Theory. Paper presented at the HUMDRUM 2004, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1-2, 2004.

Yarmolinskaya, Julia. Russian Palatalization and Opacity in Optimality Theory. Paper presented at the 13^th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics meeting, Columbia, SC, February 27-29, 2004.

Workshops and Conferences Attended

The Neurocognition of Second Language Workshop. Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. April 7, 2006.

Functional Organization of the Laminar Structure of the Auditory Cortex Workshop. Mathematical Analysis of the NeuroImaging of the Auditory Cortex Group, Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. February 4, 2006

BrainVoyager QX Workshop, Washington, DC. November 10-11, 2005.

Advances in Clinical Auditory Neuroscience: Brain Mapping. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. December 2, 2004.

Research Retreat: New Technology, New Results, New Collaborations. F.M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. October 30, 2004.

Teaching Assistantships

050.203 Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the Living Brain (Brenda Rapp) – Spring 2003
050.105 Introduction to Cognitive Neurophychology (Michael McCloskey) – Fall 2004

050.140 The World of Language (Géraldine Legendre) – Spring 2004

050.247 Topics in the History of the Romance Languages (Luigi Burzio and Géraldine Legendre) – Fall 2004

050.315 Cognitive Neuropsychology of Visual Perception (Michael McCloskey) – Spring 2005

050.102 Language and Mind (William Badecker) – Fall 2005

050.203 Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the Living Brain (Brenda Rapp) – Spring 2006

Coursework

050.311 Written Language: Normal Processes and Disorders (Brenda Rapp) – Fall 2002

050.602 Topics in Cognitive Neuropsychology (Brenda Rapp) – Fall 2002

050.620 Introduction to the Syntax of Natural Languages (Géraldine Legendre) – Fall 2002

050.824 Research Seminar in Lexical Representation (Luigi Burzio) – Fall 2002

050.626 Foundations of Cognitive Science (Paul Smolensky) – Fall 2002

050.629 Advanced Phonological Analysis (Paul Smolensky) – Spring 2003

050.330 Psycholinguistics (William Badecker) – Spring 2003

050.625 Sound Structure of Natural Languages (Luigi Burzio) – Spring 2003

050.802 Cognitive Processes: Multi-Lingual Mind (Brenda Rapp) – Spring 2003

050.670 Formal Methods in Cognitive Science (Robert Frank) – Fall 2003

050.691 Bilinguality (Isabelle Barriere) – Fall 2003

050.607 Introduction to Phonetics (Melissa Epstein) – Spring 2004

050.616 Morpho-Phonology (Luigi Burzio) – Spring 2004

Ling455 Second Language Acquisition (Rosalind Thornton) – Spring 2004

200.314 Advanced Statistical Methods (Steven Yantis) – Fall 2004

200.314 Advanced Research Design and Analysis (Amy Shelton) – Spring 2005

050.672 Formal Methods in Cognitive Science (Paul Smolensky) – Fall 2005

600.107 Introduction to Programming in Java (Joanne Houlahan) – Fall 2005

200.206 Foundations of Mind (Lisa Feigenson and Justin Halberda) – Spring 2006

Summer School Attended

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2003, Michigan State University

Phonetics in Phonology (Donca Steriade)

Morphology (Alec Matantz)

Cognitive Foundations of Language (Ray Jackendoff)

Language Neuroimaging I (Michael Ullman and Karsten Steinhauer)

Neurolinguistics (Alan Beretta)

Professional Experience

2000-2002 Full-time English as a Second Language instructor. Shenandoah Valley Academy. New Market, VA.

1999-2000 Part-time English as a Second Language instructor. Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA.

Honors

Who is Who Among American Teachers, 2002.
Magna Cum Laude, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA, 2000.
Dean’s List, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA 1997-2000.
Summa Cum Laude, Russian Institute of Economics and Finance, Arkhangel’sk, Russia, 1999.
Sigma Tau Delta National English Honor Society
Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society