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Publications

My publications examine different aspects of speech production, speech perception, phonetic variation, and prosodic processing.

Journal articles

  • Nikolić, D. & Winters, S. (in preparation). Perception of Serbian Pitch Accents by Serbian and French listeners in a Sequence Recall Task. Journal of Phonetics.

  • Nikolić, D., Russell, C., Brooklyn, S., Sazzad, S., & Winters, S. (submitted). An Online Free Classification Method for Investigating Perceptual Similarity in Speech. Phonetica.

  • Nikolić, D. & Sredojević, D. (to appear). Examining the relationship between speech perception and production through lexical pitch accents in Standard Serbian. Matica Srpska Journal of Philology and Linguistics.

  • Nikolić, D. & Winters, S. (2026). Native and non-native listeners’ perception of Serbian lexical pitch accents. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique.https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2026.10041

  • Nikolić, D. (2026). Perception of the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents. Journal of Experimental Linguistics, 35, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1344/efe-2026-35-1-32  

  • Coretta, S., Casillas, J. V., Roessig, S., Franke, M., Ahn, B., Al-Hoorie, A. H., … & Wood, A. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human-speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3), 25152459231162567.

  • Nikolić, D. & Winters, S. (2022). Are Serbian and English listeners insensitive to lexical pitch accents in Serbian?. Phonetica, 79(4), 397-423. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-2023

  • Nikolić, D. (2021). Effects of F0 acoustic parameters on the perception of Serbian lexical pitch accents. Anali Filološkog Fakulteta 33(1), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.18485/analiff.2021.33.1.1

  • Nikolić, D. (2021). F0 Acoustic Parameters’ Effects on Discrimination of Lexical Pitch Accents. In Hernández, A. & Butterworth E. (eds.) 2020 CLA Conference Proceedings. Western University, Canada.

  • Nikolić, D. (2020). Distribution of PRO in Serbian Subjunctives. In Nikolić, D., Daniel, A.D., Nelson, B.C., Oguz, M., & Xu, K. (eds.) Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics (CWPL). University of Calgary, Canada.

  • Nikolić, D. (2019). Tone and break-index (ToBi) theoretical framework applications with EFL speakers. Proceedings from Language, Literature, Theory. University of Nis, Serbia (27-28 April, 2018).

  • Nikolić, D. (2018). Empirical Analysis of Intonation Activities in EFL Student’s Books. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 7(3), 181-187.

  • Nikolić, D. (2017). Intelligibility within a Modified CLIL Framework. Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 44(1), 119-130.

  • Nikolić, D. (2016). Acoustic analysis of English vowels produced by American speakers and highly competent Serbian L2 speakers. Facta Universitatis, Series: Linguistics and Literature, 85-101.

Book Reviews

  • Nikolić, D. (2023). Daniel Silverman. 2017. A Critical Introduction to Phonology. Functional and Usage-Based Perspectives. 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. xxi + 360. US $33.95. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, 68(1), 152–157. doi:10.1017/cnj.2022.17

  • Nikolić, D. (2022). Clausal complementation in South Slavic: edited by Björn Wiemer and Barbara Sonnenhauser, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022, viii+ 490 pp., US $154.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-11-072585-8.

Conference proceedings

  • Nikolić, D., & Reinisch, E. (2026). To wait or not to wait? An eye-tracking account of the integration of acoustic cues of lexical pitch accents. Presented at Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2026 (2-4 September, 2026).

  • Nikolić, D., Gardner, K. & Athanasopoulou, A. (2026). Integration of Acoustic Information in Lexical Pitch Accent Processing. Presented at Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Meeting 2026 (17-19 June, 2026).

  • Nikolić, D., Gardner, K. & Athanasopoulou, A. (2026). Real-time Integration of Acoustic Cues of Lexical Pitch Accents: An Eye Tracking Study. Presented at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026 (22-23 May, 2026).

  • Nikolić, D. (2025). Sci-fi Phonetics: Teaching Phonetics through Science Fiction. Presented at the Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences conference (MATIPS 2025), University of Alberta, Canada (18 October, 2025).

  • Nikolić, D., Russell, C., Sheppard, B., Winters, S. (2025). Mapping the unknown: Exploring similarities in speech perception through a free classification method. Presented at the Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences conference (MATIPS 2025), University of Alberta, Canada (18 October, 2025).

  • Nikolić, D. (2025). Perception of Serbian restricted tone by native and non-native listeners: Evidence from anonline free classification task. Presented at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE 2025), University of the Balearic Islands, Spain (25 - 27 Jun, 2025).

  • Nikolić, D. (2024). Processing of Serbian Restricted Tone by Native and Non-native Listeners. Presented at the Austrian Linguistics Conference (Österreichische Linguistiktagung, University of Innsbruck, Austria (17 - 19 Dec, 2024).

  • Nikolić, D. (2024). Dialectal Variation in the Perceptual Similarity Space of Serbian Lexical Pitch Accent. Presented at Language, Literature, Intersectionality (LLI), University of Niš, Serbia (27 April, 2024).

  • Nikolić, D. (2023). Perceptual similarity space of Serbian lexical pitch accents: evidence from Serbian and French listeners. Presented at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS).(7-11 August, 2023).

  • Nikolić, D. (2022). Word Stress Acoustic Correlates: English Speakers versus Exemplar Models. Presented at Amlap 2022. University of York,  England (7-9 September, 2022).

  • Nikolić, D. (2022). Can Exemplar Models Replicate Human Production of Word Stress? A Case of Canadian English Speakers. Presented at SICOL, Sunkyungwan University (11-12 August, 2022).

  • Nikolić, D. (2022). Is There “Deafness” to Stress Contrasts: A Case of English and Serbian Speakers? Presented at Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA). University of Manitoba,  Canada (1-4, June, 2022). 

  • Nikolić, D. (2021). Are Non-Native Speakers “Deaf” to Lexical Pitch Accents? Presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021. Pompeu Fabra University,  Barcelona, Spain (21- 23, June, 2021).

  • Nikolić, D. (2021). “Deafness” to Lexical Pitch Accents: The Case of Non-native Listeners. Presented at Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA). University of Alberta,  Alberta, Canada (4 June, 2021). 

  • Nikolić, D. (2021). Is There “Deafness” to Lexical Pitch Accent. Presented at STEP (LSA) (19 May, 2021). Poster.

  • Nikolić, D. (2021). F0 Acoustic Parameters Effects on Discrimination of Lexical Pitch Accents. Presented at Linguistic Society of America (LSA) (7-9 January, 2021). 

  • Nikolić, D. (2020). Effects of Acoustic Parameters on the Perception of Serbian Lexical Pitch Accents. Presented at Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA). Western University,  Ontario, Canada (30 May, 2020). 

  • Nikolić, D. (2020). Effects of F0 Acoustic Parameters on the Perception of Serbian Lexical Pitch Accents. Presented at BIMEP (Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians). University of Belgrade, Serbia (20 March, 2020). 

  • Nikolić, D. (2019). Perception of L2 Lexical Pitch Accents. Presented at Northwest Conference on Phonetics/Phonology (NowPhon). University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (21 Sep, 2019).

  • Nikolić, D. (2018). ToBi Analysis of EFL Serbian Speakers’ Intonation Use. Presented at Alberta Conference on Linguistics. University of Calgary, Canada (27 October, 2018).

  • Nikolić, D. (2018). Contribution of Segmental and Intonation Features to the Perception of Foreign Accent. Presented at BIMEP (Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians). University of Belgrade, Serbia (30 March, 2018).

  • Nikolić, D. (2017). Communication: An Overview of CLIL and Non-CLIL Classroom Practices. Presented at Osterreichische Linguistiktagung. Alpen-Adrian University Klagenfurt, Austria (7-10 December, 2017).

Talks

  • Nikolić, D. (2022). Perception of Lexical Pitch Accents by Serbian and French Listeners. Given at University of Trier. (13 December, 2022).

Editorial Work

  • Nikolić, D. (2026). When Feedback Matters: An Active-Inference Model of the Speaking-over-Writing Advantage in Retrieving Word-Production Modality. MDPI: Behavioral Sciences. 

  • Nikolić, D. (2026). Acoustics of Tone-Stress interaction in Disyllabic Triplets: An Empirical Study on Gojri. MDPI: Language.

  • Nikolić, D. (2025). Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies. Frontiers in Communication: Language Communication.