dr Tomasz Łuszczek
Department of the English Language
Assistant professor
Room number: 3.418
email: t.luszczek@uw.edu.pl
Thursdays, 15.00-16.30
Degrees
M.A., University of Warsaw, 2019
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 2025
Research interests and projects
phonology (particularly Optimality Theory)
phonological opacity
morphology and its interface with phonology
Slavic languages (Polish, Russian, Upper Sorbian)
Podhale Goralian
Latin and its influence on modern languages
English pronunciation (BrE)
Selected publications
Łuszczek, T. 2022. Final Tensing and opacity in Podhale Goralian. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 58, 885–932.
Rubach, J. and T. Łuszczek. 2019. The vowel system of Podhale Goralian. Research in Language 17, 105–126.
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN
Conferences
Conferences
Invited talks
“Polish Palatalisation: a window into selecting the correct model for Optimality Theory.” Wykład gościnny w UCSD Department of Linguistics (University of California, San Diego; 05/2024).
“Glides: a Polish challenge for constraint-based theories of opacity.” Wykład gościnny na spotkaniu koła naukowego PHORUM w UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics (University of California, Berkeley; 11/2023).
“Aspekty ujednoliconego zapisu gwary podhalańskiej.” Wykład otwarty wygłoszony razem z prof. Jerzym Rubachem (Dzianisz, 5/2022).
Conference talks
“OT-CC shows tenacity in tackling opacity: evidence from Podhale Goralian.” APAP(Lublin, Poland; 7/2025).
“Against conjoined and Prec constraints: a case from Podhale Goralian.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 34 (FASL) (Cornell University, USA; 5/2025).
“Modelling Polish glides: non-standard OT constraints are inadequate.” 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) (Newcastle, United Kingdom; 8/2024).
“Final Adjunction in Upper Sorbian.” 8th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (Poznań, Poland; 5/2023).
“Word-initial Glide Insertion in Podhale Goralian.” 17th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (Sapporo, Japan; 9/2022).
“Fake Duke-of-York: a Podhale Goralian argument for parallelism.” Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics(Lublin, Poland; 6/2021).
“Fed counterfeeding in Podhale Goralian.” 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań(Poznań, Poland; 4/2021).
“Derived Environment Effects in Optimality Theory: a case from Podhale Goralian.” Young Linguists’ Conference “atena”(Rzeszów, Poland; 4/2021).
“Rules, opacity and Podhale Goralian.” 1st Interdisciplinary Conference at the Warsaw University Doctoral School of Humanities(Warsaw, Poland; 10/2020).
“The Vocalic System of Goralian: Opacity in Final Tensing as an Argument for Level Distinction in Optimality Theory.” 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań(Poznań, Poland; 11/2018).
Other
2023 – 2024 Fulbright Junior Research Award: a year-long stay at the University of California, Berkeley. Project title: Theoretical issues in phonological opacity.
2023 2023 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): a month-long stay at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2022 – 2026 Polish National Science Centre research grant PRELUDIUM nr 2021/41/N/HS2/01130. Project title: Palatalisation and associated phonological processes in the Podhale dialect as represented by the Dzianisz dialect. A generative analysis in the framework of Optimality Theory.