I am Dušan Nikolić, a post-doctoral researcher at the Acoustics Research Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In my work, I want to understand what the processing mechanisms of prosodic categories are and how they relate to communication. I try to tackle a big question: How is speech processed in the brain? I employ linguistic, psycholinguic, and neurolinguistic methodology to address this topic. In particular, I use perceptual phonetics expeirmentation such as ABX, free classification, and sequence recall tasks; psycholinguistic methods such as eye-tracking, and neurolinguistic methods such as EEGs.
Nikolić, D. (2026). Perception of the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents. Journal of Experimental Linguistics.
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.
Nikolic, D. & Winters, S. (2022). Are Serbian and English Listeners Insensitive to Lexical Pitch Accents in Serbian? Phonetica, Karger.
