Dušan Nikolić Researcher
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Expertise

I am Dušan Nikolić, a post-doctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. I earned my PhD in Linguistics, specializing in Phonetics, at the University of Calgary. In my work, I want to understand what the neuro-cognitive processing mechanisms of language categories are and how they relate to clinical populations and real-life communication.

RESEARCH
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Key Publications

Nikolić, D. & Winters, S. (to appear, 2026). Native and non-native listeners’ perception of Serbian lexical pitch accents. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique.‍
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Nikolić, D. (2026). Perception of the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents.  Journal of Experimental Linguistics.‍

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Nikolic, D. & Winters, S. (2022). Are Serbian and English Listeners Insensitive to Lexical Pitch Accents in Serbian? Phonetica, Karger.

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Coretta, S., Casillas, J., Roetger, T. et al. (2022). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences.

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Awards

I am a recipient of the prestigious Izaak-Walton Killam Award, University of Calgary International Eyes High Award, University of Calgary Open Doctoral Award, and Dositeja Award by Serbian Ministry of Education. I was a proud member of the UofC’s Phonetics Lab, and the president of the UofC’s graduate student association, “A Higher Clause”.
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Contact

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dusan.nikolic@oeaw.ac.at
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dusan.nikolic1@alumni.ucalgary.ca
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