Olha Romanivna Valihura — Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Oriental Philology at Kyiv National Linguistic University.
In 1988, she defended her Candidate dissertation, “Intonational features of the information structure of spoken educational and scientific texts (an experimental phonetic study based on English)”, under the supervision of Professor M. P. Dvorzhetska.
She defended her doctoral dissertation, “Linguocognitive and communicative foundations of phonetic interference (an experimental phonetic study of Ukrainians’ English speech)”, in 2010 under the supervision of Professor A. A. Kalyta. Dissertation abstract.
Her research contributions include a cognitive model of speech production within the individual’s mental sphere; a typology of bilingualism; a general cognitive model of bilingual thought and speech activity; and a stochastic model of the production of speech affected by interference.