Curriculum Vitae

Education

2019 – present
•    Doctoral Student
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Department of Social Sciences
Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Shanley M. E. Allen
Thesis: Morphological Simplification in Inuktitut Child-Directed Speech

2019
•    M. Sc. in Cognitive Science
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Department of Social Sciences
Internship: Cognitive-Linguistic Rehabilitation (Zentrum für Ambulante Rehabilitation (ZAR), Kaiserslautern, October 2017 - February 2018)  
Thesis: Processing of Morphologically Complex German Numerals

2002
•    M. A. in English Literature
•    Joint B. A. in English, English Literature and Translation
Saratov State University, Department of Romance and Germanic Languages
Internship: Translating/interpreting (English/Russian), 4 weeks (Center for Women
Entrepreneurs)
Thesis: Modern Interpretation of Legends in Mary Stuart’s Arthurian Saga

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2018
•    Corpus Linguistics Summer School, University of Birmingham
2016
•    Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics, Columbia University 5-week online course

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Chair of the Organizing Committee:

•   Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2021 Conference, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), May 19-21, 2021

Ad hoc reviewing:

•    Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (February 2021)
•    International Journal of American Linguistics (February 2021)
•    Journal of Child Language (January 2021)
•    International Journal of American Linguistics (December 2020)

TEACHING

Courses

Since 2020
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau  (RPTU):
•    Language development
•    Linguistics and language processing
•    Syntax  

2005 - 2020
•    EFL, ESL (Online Language School)
One-year courses: Academic English (advanced); Unified State Exam Preparation (intermediate-advanced); Learning English through Movies (intermediate). Six-month courses: Intensive English Course (basic, low-intermediate); Literary Translation (advanced); TOEFL Preparation (all levels)

2002 - 2005
•    English as a Foreign Language (Saratov Institute of Social Education)
basic (phonetics, grammar, reading- and listening comprehension, speaking, writing), low-intermediate (reading- and listening comprehension, speaking, basic composition), high-intermediate (morphology, reading- and listening comprehension, speaking, syntax, essay writing)

Workshops

2010 - 2012
•    Diversity Training Workshop, The Officer Professional Development Course Seminar (US Army Chaplain Center & School)
Topics included: unconscious biases, how they affect decision making, and how to overcome them; ethnocentric and ethno-relative mindsets; working across different linguistic, cultural and social contexts.

2002 - 2005
•    “Cultural Diversity: Advantages and Challenges” Workshop, The Youth Club Seminar (Engels Center of German Culture / Zentrum der Deutschen Kultur, Engels)
Topic: advantages of studying in a culturally diverse environment

Mentoring and supervision

2022 – 2023
•    Master’s supervision – second advisor (data analysis):
M. Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Thesis “Language Development in Mongolian Preschool Children”

2021 – 2022:
•    Bachelor’s supervision:
BA in Linguistics, Northeastern University,
Directed study on verbal inflections in Inuktitut child-directed speech.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2024
o    Johnson, O.A., Lee, H., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, September). Acquisition of complex structures and measuring lexical diversity in Inuktitut. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, Scotland.  
o    Johnson, O.A., Lee, H., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, September). Measuring lexical diversity in Inuktitut with MATTR. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL), University of Zurich, Switzerland.
o    Johnson, O.A., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, July). Morphological simplification of complex structures in Inuktitut child-directed speech. Symposium: Acquisition of complex predicates in diverse languages. 16th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.
o    Johnson, O.A., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, July). How to measure lexical diversity in Inuktitut?  Testing MATTR with child and child-directed speech. 16th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.

2023
o    Johnson, O.A., & Allen, S.E.M. (2023, April). MATTR: Measuring Lexical Diversity in
Inuktitut. 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 26, McGill University, Canada.

2022
o    Lee, H., Johnson, O.A., & Allen, S.E.M. (2022, July). The use of verbal inflections in
Inuktitut child-directed speech. Inuit Studies Conference 2022: Auviqsaqtut, Winnipeg, Canada.

2021
o    Johnson, O.A., Elliot, M.E., & Allen, S.E.M. (2021, July). Morphological
simplification in Inuktitut child-directed speech. 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) 2021, Philadelphia, USA.

o    Johnson O.A., Elliot M., & Allen S.E.M. (2021, May). Morphological simplification in
Inuktitut child-directed speech. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2021, University of Kaiserslautern (RPTU), Germany.

2019
o    Johnson O.A., Jacob G., & Allen S.E.M. (2019, May). Are all complex words created
equal? Morpho-orthographic decomposition of complex numerals versus derived nominalizations in German. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2019, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

2018
o    Johnson O.A., Grün A., Allen S.E.M., & Fernandez L.B. (2018, June). Complex Noun
Phrases: The Influence of Length and Type on Processing Time. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2018, Ghent University, Belgium.

PUBLICATIONS
Lee, H., Johnson, O. A., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). The use of verbal inflections in Inuktitut child-directed speech. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 5(1), 29-58. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23491

Johnson, O. A., Elliot, M., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). Morphological simplification in Inuktitut child-directed speech. In M. Huijsmans, D. K. E. Reisinger, & R. Underhill (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas 25 (pp. 103-115). Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL.

Johnson, O. A., & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). The use of complex structures with a word class change in Inuktitut child-directed speech. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 971395. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971395

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
•    Linguistics: rare languages, psycholinguistics, language development, child-directed speech, first and second language acquisition, processing of complex morphology, morphological priming
•    Philology: literary translation, archetypes in world literature, modern interpretation of myths
•    Teaching: elaborative rehearsal in foreign language learning, language development
•    Psychology: social perception, Implicit personality theories, subconscious biases (especially the ones based on language)