Kira Gor

EDUCATION

Ph.D. - Linguistics and Experimental Phonetics, Saint Petersburg State University
Ph.D. - Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

Second language acquisition of phonology and morphology
Second language lexical access
Processing of inflectional morphology by native and non-native speakers
Linguistic correlates of second language proficiency
The heritage speaker
 

COURSES TAUGHT IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Gor. K. (1998). Interlanguage Phonology and Second Language Orthography: Vowel Reduction in the Interlanguage of American Learners of Russian. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University Press.

Journal articles

Gor, K. (2003). Symbolic Rules Versus Analogy in the Processing of Complex Verbal Morphology. Regards Croisés sur L’Analogie. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, 17.5-6, 823-840. [pdf]

Gor, K., & Chernigovskaya, T. 2003. Mental Lexicon Structure in L1 and L2 Acquisition: Evidence from Russian. Glossos, issue 4.

Gor, K., & Chernigovskaya, T. (2004). Generation of Complex Verbal Morphology in First and Second Language Acquisition: Evidence from Russian. Nordlyd, 31.6, Supplement. [pdf]

Gor, K., Cook, S., V., Malyushenkova, V., & Vdovina, T. (2009). Verbs of Motion in Highly Proficient Learners and Heritage Speakers of Russian. Slavic and East European Journal, 53, 386-408. Special Issue on Verbs of Motion in Slavic, Guest editors V. Driagina-Hasko and R. Perelmutter. [pdf]

Gor, K., & Cook, S. (2010). Non-native processing of verbal morphology: In search of regularity. Language Learning, 60.1, 88-126. [pdf]

Gor, K. (2010). Beyond the obvious: Do second language learners process inflectional morphology? Language Learning, 60.1, 1-20. Introduction to the thematic issue. Guest editor K. Gor. [pdf]

Gor, K. & Vdovina, T. (2010). Frequency, regularity, and input in second language processing of Russian verbal inflection. Special issue of Slavic and East European Journal, 54.1, 7-31. Guest editors B. Rifkin and O. Kagan. [pdf]

Long, M. H., Gor, K., & Jackson, S. (2012). Linguistic correlates of second language proficiency: Proof of concept with ILR 2-3 in Russian. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 34.1, 99-126. [pdf]

Gor, K., & Jackson, S. (2013). Morphological decomposition and lexical access in a native and second language: A nesting doll effect. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28.7, 1065-1091. [pdf]

Chrabaszcz, A., & Gor, K. (2014). Context effects in the processing of phonolexical ambiguity in L2. Language Learning, 64.3, 415-455. [pdf]

Gor, K. (2014). Raspberry, not a car: Context predictability and a phonological advantage in early and late learners’ processing of speech in noise. Frontiers in Psychology. December 2014, Volume 5, Article 1449.[pdf]

Cook, S., & Gor, K. (2015). Lexical access in L2: Representational deficit or processing constraint?  The Mental Lexicon, 10.2, 247-270. [Abstract]  

Cook, S. V., Pandža, N. B., Lancaster, A., & Gor, K. (2016). Fuzzy nonnative phonolexical representations lead to fuzzy form-to-meaning mappings. Frontiers in Psychology, September 2016, Volume 7, Article 1345. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01345

Li, M., Jiang, N., & Gor, K. (2017). L1 and L2 processing of compound words: Evidence from masked priming experiments in English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20.2, 384-402. [Abstract] 

Romanova, N., & Gor, K. (2017). Processing of gender and number agreement in Russian as a second langiage: The devil is in the detail. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 39.1, 97-128. [Abstract] 

Freynik, S., Gor, K., & O'Rourke, P. (2017). L2 Processing of Arabic Derivational Morphology. The Mental Lexicon, 12.1, 21-50. [Abstract] 

Gor, K., Chrabaszcz, A., & Cook, S. (2017). Processing of native and nonnative inflected words: Beyond affix stripping. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 315-332. [Abstract] 

Chrabaszcz, A. & Gor, K. (2017). Quantifying contextual effects in L2 processing of phonolexically ambiguous and unambiguous words. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(4), 909-942. [Abstract] 

Gor, K. (2017). The mental lexicon of L2 learners of Russian: Phonology and morphology in lexical storage and access. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 25.2, 277-302. 

Gor, K. (2018). Phonological priming and the role of phonology in nonnative word recognition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(3), 437-442. [Abstract]

Gor, K., Chrabaszcz, A., & Cook, S. (2018). Early and late learners decompose inflected nouns, but can they tell which ones are inflected correctly? Journal of Second Language Studies, 1, 113-147. First View. [Abstract]

Gor, K., Chrabaszcz, A., & Cook, S. (2019). A case for agreement: Processing of case inflection by early and late learners. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 9(1), 6-41. [Abstract]

Gor, K. (2019). Morphosyntactic knowledge in late second language learners and heritage speakers of Russian. The Heritage Language Journal, 16(2), 124-150.

Gor, K., & Cook, S. V. (2020). A mare in a pub? Nonnative facilitation in phonological priming. Second Language Research. 36(1), 123-140. [Abstract]

Book chapters

Gor, K. (2000). Experimental Research of Vowel Reduction in Russian: Implications for Interlanguage Phonology and for Teaching Russian Pronunciation. In: Kagan, O., and Rifkin, B. (eds.).  The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures: Toward the 21st Century, 193-214. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica.

Gor, K., Chernigovskaya, T. (2001). Rules in processing of Russian verbal morphology. In: Zybatow, G., Junghanns, U., Mehlhorn, G., and Szucsich, L. (eds.). Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 528-535. [pdf]

Gor, K. (2004). The Rules and Probabilities Model of Native and Second Language Morphological Processing. In: L. Verbitskaya, T. Chernigovskaya (eds.). Theoretical Problems of Linguistics. Papers  Dedicated  to 140 Anniversary of the Department of General Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University, 51-75. St. Petersburg: Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University Press. [pdf]

Gor, K., & Chernigovskaya, T. (2005). Formal Instruction and the Acquisition of Verbal Morphology. In: Housen, A., Pierrard, M. (eds.). Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 131-164. Mouton De Gruyter. [pdf]

Gor, K. (2007). Experimental Study of First and Second Language Morphological Processing. In: Gonzalez-Marquez, M., Mittelberg, I., Coulson, S., and Spivey, M. J. (eds.). Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 367-398. Ithaca: John Benjamins. [pdf]

Gor, K., & Long, M. H. (2009). Input and second language processing. In: Ritchie, W. C., Bhatia, T. J. (eds.). Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 445-472. New York: Academic Press. [pdf]

Gor, K., & Vatz, K. (2009). Less Commonly Taught Languages: Issues in Learning and Teaching. In: Long, M. H., & Doughty, K. (eds.), The Handbook of Language Teaching, 234-249. Wiley-Blackwell. [pdf]

Gor, K., Cook, S., V., Malyushenkova, V., & Vdovina, T. (2010). Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives. V. Driagina-Hasko & R. Perelmutter (ed.) Multiple Perspectives on Slavic Verbs of Motion, 361-381. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gor, K. (2012). Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology in Nonnative Lexical Access: Bondarko’s
Legacy. In: L. A. Verbitskaya & N. K. Ivanova (eds). Speaking Man: 21st Century Studies. Festschrift in Honor of Lija Bondarko, 206-214. Ivanovo: Ivanovo University of Chemical Technology.

Gor, K. (2014). Morphology and L2 vocabulary learning. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. Chapelle, C. A. (gen. ed.). [pdf]

Gor, K. (2015). Phonology and morphology in lexical processing. In: Schwieter, J. W. (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing, 173-199. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Gor, K. (2015). Raspberry, not a car: Context predictability and a phonological advantage in early and late learners’ processing of speech in noise. In: Pliatsikas, C., Chondrogianni, V. (Eds.). Learning a Non-Native Language in a Naturalistic Environment: Insights from Behavioural and Neuroimaging Research, pp. 117-131. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-639-5 (Ebook chapter)

Tkachenko, E., Gor, K., and Chernigovskaya, T. (2016). What are little girls and boys made of? Acquisition of Russian verb morphology in monolingual and bilingual children. In: H.-O. Enger, M. I. Norvik Knoph, K. E. Kristoffersen, and M. Lind (Eds.). Festschrift in Honor of Hanne Simonsen, 255-274. Oslo: University of Oslo.

Cook, S. V., Pandža, N. B., Lancaster, A., & Gor, K. (2016). Fuzzy nonnative phonolexical representations lead to fuzzy form-to-meaning mappings. In: I. Darcy, A. Tremblay, & M. Simonet (Eds.). Phonology in the Bilingual and Bidialectal Lexicon, pp. 26-42. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01345 (Ebook chapter, reprint of the article)

Gor, K. (2018).Yes to the king, and no to the ship: Heritage speakers differ from late second language learners in word recognition. In: S. Kresin and S. Baukus (Eds.) Connecting across Languages and Cultures: A Heritage Language Festschrift in Honor of Olga Kagan. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 1–10.

Gor, K., and Chrabaszcz, A. (2019). Morphological processing of citation and non-citation inflected words by second language learners. In: R. Leow, (Ed.) Handbook of Classroom Learning: Processing and Processes, pp. 304-317. Routledge. 25. 

Textbooks

Davidson, D. E., Gor, K. S., & Lekic, M. D. (1996). Russian: Stage One: Live from Moscow! Textbook, vol. 1, 2. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque, Iowa.

Lekic, M. D., Davidson, D. E., & Gor, K. S. (2008/2009). Russian: Stage One: Live from Russia! Textbook, vol. 1, 2. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque, Iowa.