Kateryna Laidler

Kateryna Laidler is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English and General Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin. Her academic work focuses on phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Slavic languages, particularly Russian and Ukrainian, with interdisciplinary connections to gender linguistics and acoustic phonetics.

• Research Interests: Phonetics/Phonology of English and Slavic languages, loanword adaptation mechanisms, optimality theory, and gender linguistics.
• Methodology: Combines theoretical phonology with empirical studies on pronunciation patterns in language contact scenarios.

Conference Contributions: Presented at major Polish and international linguistics conferences (e.g., Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Linguistics Beyond and Within) on topics like gendered occupational terms, /h/ adaptation in Russian, and consonant cluster processing. Her publications (2015-2024) explore cross-linguistic phonological constraints, orthography-perception interactions, and sociophonetic aspects of loanword processing.