Linguist (Postdoc) | English linguistics, socioling., acoustic phonetics, World Englishes, language attitudes, prosody, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics
Newly published OER developed within the Erasmus CIRCE project is now available:
📘 Guerra, L., Cavalheiro, L., Pereira, R., Melgão, L., & Antunes, J. (Eds.) (2026). Handbook on Counteracting Accent Discrimination Practices in Education. Edições Húmus. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18981…
Samantha Jackson, Miriam Schmalz , and I contributed a chapter on Trinidad and Tobago to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 😊
doi.org/10.1002/978111951829…
I was recently interviewed by a journalist (@tazgezwitscher - taz, die Tageszeitung) about accent prejudice. The article is now available online 🙂
taz.de/Akzente-und-Rassismus…
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:
engling.limesurvey.rz.uni-ba…
New corpus phonetic paper on Nigerian English together with Ulrike Gut 🙂
doi.org/10.1111/weng.12731
Part of a Special Issue on Nigerian English edited by @KingsUgwuanyi . 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.
uni-muenster.de/Promotionsko…
🤩 New edited book 🤩 w/ Ryan Durgasingh
With wonderful contributions by Stephan Elspaß, Jutta Ransmayr, Konstantin Niehaus, Edgar W. Schneider, @SBuschfeld, @weilinghoff, and Arne Dhondt et al. - plus a thematic introduction and conclusion 🙂
benjamins.com/catalog/silv.3…
The Graduate School of Empirical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Muenster currently calls for applications for two PhD scholarships starting October 1st 2025 on the overarching topic ‘pluricentric languages’, including World Englishes & GELT.
uni-muenster.de/Promotionsko…
New article by Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut, and myself in World Englishes (a special issue on sociolinguistic variation edited by Tobias Bernaisch and Werner Botha) 🙂🏴
doi.org/10.1111/weng.12692
And another joint paper with Ronald Francis and Robert Fuchs on "Lexical stress perception among Trinidadian English listeners" 🇹🇹👂
doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProso…
New co-authored paper on speech rhythm (and other prosodic aspects) of Brazilian Learner English 🇧🇷 - together with Leônidas Silva Jr 🙂
doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProso…
New job post: Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in phonetics/sociophonetics at the University of Michigan. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Professor Andries Coetzee. linguisticsociety.org/job/po…
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.
wvttrier.de/p/rethinking-cul…
@fraukematz @EngLangEdu_WWU@philip
New publication 🙂 in this wonderful volume edited by @MirjamSchmalz, Manuela Vida-Mannl, @SBuschfeld, and Thorsten Brato.
Drawing on sociophonetic data of 100 speakers, my chapter investigates rhotacization of the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English.
doi.org/10.1515/978311073372…
New book! 😊 Co-edited by Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Michael Westphal, & myself. (The e-book just came out, print version for pre-order only.)
routledge.com/Glocalising-Te…
The book showcases recent initiatives that aim at introducing Global Englishes into ELT in Germany.