Philipp Meer

New co-authored article: Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students 🙂

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Trinidad and Tobago, English and Creoles in The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the second most populated English-official country of the Caribbean. Located just north of the Venezuelan coast, it is the southernmost island state of the regi...

Samantha Jackson, Miriam Schmalz , and I contributed a chapter on Trinidad and Tobago to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 😊

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Caribbean Creoles and Englishes: Sociophonetic and Morphosyntactic Variation This entry offers a state-of-the-art overview of sociolinguistic variation in the Anglophone Caribbean with a focus on sociophonetic and morphosyntactic aspects. It draws on the creole continuum mode....

Ryan Durgasingh and I contributed a chapter to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 🙂

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Akzente und Rassismus: Sexy, kompetent oder ungebildet Welches Vorurteil Menschen über einen haben, hängt oft davon ab, ob man akzentfrei spricht. Und davon, woher der Akzent stammt.

I was recently interviewed by a journalist (taz - die Tageszeitung) about accent prejudice. The article is now available online 🙂

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Estou atualmente conduzindo uma pesquisa que analisa o uso de preposições entre estudantes brasileiros de inglês na faculdade/universidade.

Você conhece algum dos alunos? Por favor compartilhe:

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Dr. Philipp Meer Dr. Philipp MeerPostdoctoral researcher University of Münster, Germany

I have a new private website. Feel free to check it out :)

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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus-based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadc...

New corpus phonetic paper on Nigerian English together with Ulrike Gut 🙂

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Part of a Special Issue on Nigerian English edited by Kingsley Ugwuanyi. Thank you, Kingsley, for having us!

🙌 PhD scholarships in (Applied) Linguistics at the University of Münster (GER) 🙌

Please spread the word! And let me know if you have any questions.

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🤩 New edited book 🤩 w/ Ryan Durgasingh

With wonderful contributions by Stephan Elspaß, Jutta Ransmayr, Konstantin Niehaus, Edgar W. Schneider, Sarah Buschfeld, Andreas Weilinghoff, and Arne Dhondt et al. - plus a thematic introduction and conclusion 🙂

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And another joint paper with Ronald Francis and Robert Fuchs on "Lexical stress perception among Trinidadian English listeners" 🇹🇹👂
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New co-authored paper on speech rhythm (and other prosodic aspects) of Brazilian Learner English 🇧🇷 - together with Leônidas Silva Jr 🙂

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Rethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education - WVT - Wissenschaftli... Ricardo Römhild, Anika Marxl, Frauke Matz, Philipp Siepmann (Eds.) Rethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education

New article on "Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Language Education"😊
A very fun and insightful collaboration with Ricardo Römhild at the intersection of linguistics and English language pedagogy.

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13 Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adol... 13 Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adolescent and adult speakers was published in Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes on page 279.

New publication 🙂 in this wonderful volume edited by Mirjam Schmalz, Manuela Vida-Mannl, Sarah Buschfeld, and Thorsten Brato.

Drawing on sociophonetic data of 100 speakers, my chapter investigates rhotacization of the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English.

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We are also going to use FAVE-extract on the Nigerian English data soon, and we'll be using FAVE on other West African Englishes in the future.

The plan sounds very good! Let me know if you want me to share experiences we've had in using FAVE-align and (the Trinidadian version) of FAVE-extract on other Caribbean varieties (Dominica, Grenada). We've also recently started using FAVE-align for a new project on Nigerian English [1]