# Roksolana Mykhaylyk Program Manager, Alexa Data Services, Amazon Former HURI Associate ![Roksolana Mykhaylyk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/huri/files/mykhaylyk_r.jpg?itok=dPrGx31m) smartphone [617-901-1913](tel:617-901-1913) email laptop\_windows [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roksolana_Mykhaylyk) Roksolana Mykhaylyk is an expert in Ukrainian Language and Linguistics. She holds a PhD in Ukrainian Philology from the Institute of Ukrainian Language at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a PhD in Linguistics from Stony Brook University. Her main research interests lie in the areas of syntactic theory, language acquisition, and multilingualism. She has authored and co-authored more than 25 publications with 180+ citations. Some of her most cited papers are: *Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model*, 2017, *International Journal of Bilingualism*; *Object pronouns, clitics, and omissions in child Polish and Ukrainian,* 2016, *Applied Psycholinguistics; Ditransitive constructions in Russian and Ukrainian: Effect of givenness on word order, 2013, Lingua,* and *Diachronic universals and morpheme order in the Ukrainian synthetic imperfective future*. 2010, *Morphology.* After many years of teaching and research at universities in Slovjans'k, Kyiv, New York, and Tromso, Norway, she moved to a new field of speech technology, launching the first Ukrainian voice at Google and contributing to various other Ukrainian language products as a consultant. Currently, she is managing a team of Alexa Voice content developers at Amazon, Boston. - ## Fields of Expertise [Language/Linguistics](/fields-expertise/language-linguistics)