Anja Schüppert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Schüppert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Schüppert |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÜPPERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7077-7881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning in English
The purpose of this research synthesis was to map research on students' language skills and content learning in English as medium of instruction (EMI) contexts for countries with advanced English skills and wide use of EMI. Systematic searches resulted in a total of 38 relevant EMI studies conducted on the nine European countries meeting our selection criteria (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, and the Nethe…
Regional background and donor-language fluency as predictors of Finnish loanword frequency in Finland-Swedish
Aims and objectives: This study examines fennicisms (i.e., Finnish loanwords and calques) in Finland-Swedish, a Swedish variety spoken in Finland. We investigate how fennicism frequency relates to speakers’ regional backgrounds and fluency in Finnish. Methodology: 134 participants from four regions in Finland performed a picture-naming task designed to elicit fennicisms. The participants also rated their own fluency in Finnish. Data and analysis:…
Errors or identity markers? A survey study on the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish
This study examines the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish. Finlandisms are words or structures typical of the Swedish variety spoken in Finland, while fennicisms are a category of finlandisms for which the source language is Finnish. Fennicisms are often discussed in context of Finnish influence and consequent Finland Swedish language loss, suggesting that the use of these features in Swedish is stigmatise…
N400 or P600?—A Systematic Review of ERP Studies on Gender Stereotype Violations
Psycholinguistic studies using the event‐related brain potential (ERP) technique have found both N400 and P600 effects for gender stereotype violations. The finding of a P600 effect for this type of world knowledge violation is surprizing given that this component is traditionally associated with syntactic violations. In this paper, we set out to systematically analyse design‐ and task patterns of ERP studies investigating gender stereotype viola…
Is Swedish more beautiful than Danish? Matched guise investigations with unknown languages
Are some languages universally seen as beautiful? And if so, what are the linguistic traits that make some languages sound more pleasing than others? This paper addresses these two questions. We do so with results from two listener experiments that use speech samples from a bilingual Danish–Swedish speaker in a matched guise test, where the listeners are ‘previously unexposed’ students from central China. Our results indicate that listeners from …
Online activation of L1 Danish orthography enhances spoken word recognition of Swedish
It has been reported that speakers of Danish understand more Swedish than vice versa. One reason for this asymmetry might be that spoken Swedish is closer to written Danish than vice versa. We hypothesise that literate speakers of Danish use their orthographic knowledge of Danish to decode spoken Swedish. To test this hypothesis, first-language (L1) Danish speakers were confronted with spoken Swedish in a translation task. Event-related brain pot…
Re-examining the /eː-ɛː/ merger in Finland-Swedish
This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ and /ɛː/ in Finland-Swedish. The study investigates the merger by comparing formant data from 141 speakers from four Swedish-speaking regions in Finland. Additionally, intraspeaker variation is explored by incorporating samples from three contextual styles. The results indicate cross-regional differences between Finland-Swedish dialects, with a more distinct…
Lecturing in L1 Dutch and in L2 English. A pairwise comparison of speech samples of three HE lecturers
This paper investigates how the language of instruction in Dutch higher education (Dutch versus English) affects speech production by L1 Dutch-speaking lecturers. In a pairwise design, three young lecturers that were highly proficient in English gave two comparable lectures each (L1 Dutch and L2 English). Results show that the L1 Dutch lectures were consistently given at slightly higher syllabic speech and articulation rates and that filled pause…
Simultaneous bilingualism and speech style as predictors of variation in allophone production
This study investigates cross-linguistic transfer in the production of long mid front vowels [øː] and [œː] by simultaneous bilingual Finnish and Finland-Swedish speakers in Finland. In Swedish, the phoneme /ø/ can be realised as the allophones [ø] and [œ], while in Finnish, only [ø] is used. Combining approaches from sociophonetic and bilingual transfer research, the study used acoustic analysis to compare the height and fronting of [øː] and [œː]…
Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe
By means of a large-scale web-based investigation, we established the degree of mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages within the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families in Europe. We first present the results of a selection of 1833 listeners representing the mutual intelligibility between young, educated Europeans from the same 16 countries where the test languages are spoken. Next, we present the data from a sub-gr…
Introduction
Rough estimates of how many languages are spoken in the world today usually range between 6500 and 7000. The 2013 edition of the Ethnologue lists even 7106 living languages (Lewis et al. 2013). If speakers of different languages communicate with each other, they have to find a way of communicating across a linguistic border, and typologically speaking, with more than 7000 languages, there are currently more than 25 million linguistic borders in t…
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the…
Modeling Intelligibility of Written Germanic Languages
We measured orthographic differences between five Germanic languages. First, we tested the hypothesis that orthographic stem variation among languages does not correlate with orthographic variation in inflectional affixes. We found this hypothesis true when considering the aggregated stem and affix distances between the languages. We also correlated the stem and affix distances within the cognate pairs in each language pair. We found low correlat…
Do speakers of Dutch use their knowledge of German while processing written Danish words
This paper elaborates on a factor that plays a role in receptive multilingualism, namely the influence of a second language (L2). We investigated whether knowledge of German can help Dutch people to decode written Danish words when they do not know any Danish. We instructed 32 participants with Dutch as a native language (L1) and different levels of proficiency in German as an L2 to translate 42 written Danish words into Dutch. The results showed…
The influence of non-native morphosyntax on the intelligibility of a closely related language
The role of extra-linguistic factors in receptive bilingualism
Danish and Swedish are closely related languages that are generally mutually intelligible. Previous research has shown, however, that Danes comprehend more spoken Swedish than vice versa. It has been suggested that this asymmetry is caused by extra-linguistic factors such as literacy, contact with, and attitudes held towards the test language. However, also linguistic factors, such as supra-segmental features or differences in speech rate, could …
New horizons in sociophonetic variation and change
Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish to investigate differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) among these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of sentences read aloud. The results of the comparative investigation show that in both data sets Danish exhi…
Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe
By means of a large-scale web-based investigation, we established the degree of mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages within the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families in Europe. We first present the results of a selection of 1833 listeners representing the mutual intelligibility between young, educated Europeans from the same 16 countries where the test languages are spoken. Next, we present the data from a sub-gr…
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the…
The influence of non-native morphosyntax on the intelligibility of a closely related language
Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish to investigate differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) among these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of sentences read aloud. The results of the comparative investigation show that in both data sets Danish exhi…
The role of extra-linguistic factors in receptive bilingualism
Danish and Swedish are closely related languages that are generally mutually intelligible. Previous research has shown, however, that Danes comprehend more spoken Swedish than vice versa. It has been suggested that this asymmetry is caused by extra-linguistic factors such as literacy, contact with, and attitudes held towards the test language. However, also linguistic factors, such as supra-segmental features or differences in speech rate, could …
New horizons in sociophonetic variation and change
Do speakers of Dutch use their knowledge of German while processing written Danish words
This paper elaborates on a factor that plays a role in receptive multilingualism, namely the influence of a second language (L2). We investigated whether knowledge of German can help Dutch people to decode written Danish words when they do not know any Danish. We instructed 32 participants with Dutch as a native language (L1) and different levels of proficiency in German as an L2 to translate 42 written Danish words into Dutch. The results showed…
The influence of non-native morphosyntax on the intelligibility of a closely related language
Modeling Intelligibility of Written Germanic Languages
We measured orthographic differences between five Germanic languages. First, we tested the hypothesis that orthographic stem variation among languages does not correlate with orthographic variation in inflectional affixes. We found this hypothesis true when considering the aggregated stem and affix distances between the languages. We also correlated the stem and affix distances within the cognate pairs in each language pair. We found low correlat…
Introduction
Rough estimates of how many languages are spoken in the world today usually range between 6500 and 7000. The 2013 edition of the Ethnologue lists even 7106 living languages (Lewis et al. 2013). If speakers of different languages communicate with each other, they have to find a way of communicating across a linguistic border, and typologically speaking, with more than 7000 languages, there are currently more than 25 million linguistic borders in t…
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the…
Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe
By means of a large-scale web-based investigation, we established the degree of mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages within the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families in Europe. We first present the results of a selection of 1833 listeners representing the mutual intelligibility between young, educated Europeans from the same 16 countries where the test languages are spoken. Next, we present the data from a sub-gr…
Lecturing in L1 Dutch and in L2 English. A pairwise comparison of speech samples of three HE lecturers
This paper investigates how the language of instruction in Dutch higher education (Dutch versus English) affects speech production by L1 Dutch-speaking lecturers. In a pairwise design, three young lecturers that were highly proficient in English gave two comparable lectures each (L1 Dutch and L2 English). Results show that the L1 Dutch lectures were consistently given at slightly higher syllabic speech and articulation rates and that filled pause…
Simultaneous bilingualism and speech style as predictors of variation in allophone production
This study investigates cross-linguistic transfer in the production of long mid front vowels [øː] and [œː] by simultaneous bilingual Finnish and Finland-Swedish speakers in Finland. In Swedish, the phoneme /ø/ can be realised as the allophones [ø] and [œ], while in Finnish, only [ø] is used. Combining approaches from sociophonetic and bilingual transfer research, the study used acoustic analysis to compare the height and fronting of [øː] and [œː]…
Is Swedish more beautiful than Danish? Matched guise investigations with unknown languages
Are some languages universally seen as beautiful? And if so, what are the linguistic traits that make some languages sound more pleasing than others? This paper addresses these two questions. We do so with results from two listener experiments that use speech samples from a bilingual Danish–Swedish speaker in a matched guise test, where the listeners are ‘previously unexposed’ students from central China. Our results indicate that listeners from …
Online activation of L1 Danish orthography enhances spoken word recognition of Swedish
It has been reported that speakers of Danish understand more Swedish than vice versa. One reason for this asymmetry might be that spoken Swedish is closer to written Danish than vice versa. We hypothesise that literate speakers of Danish use their orthographic knowledge of Danish to decode spoken Swedish. To test this hypothesis, first-language (L1) Danish speakers were confronted with spoken Swedish in a translation task. Event-related brain pot…
Re-examining the /eː-ɛː/ merger in Finland-Swedish
This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ and /ɛː/ in Finland-Swedish. The study investigates the merger by comparing formant data from 141 speakers from four Swedish-speaking regions in Finland. Additionally, intraspeaker variation is explored by incorporating samples from three contextual styles. The results indicate cross-regional differences between Finland-Swedish dialects, with a more distinct…
Regional background and donor-language fluency as predictors of Finnish loanword frequency in Finland-Swedish
Aims and objectives: This study examines fennicisms (i.e., Finnish loanwords and calques) in Finland-Swedish, a Swedish variety spoken in Finland. We investigate how fennicism frequency relates to speakers’ regional backgrounds and fluency in Finnish. Methodology: 134 participants from four regions in Finland performed a picture-naming task designed to elicit fennicisms. The participants also rated their own fluency in Finnish. Data and analysis:…
Errors or identity markers? A survey study on the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish
This study examines the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish. Finlandisms are words or structures typical of the Swedish variety spoken in Finland, while fennicisms are a category of finlandisms for which the source language is Finnish. Fennicisms are often discussed in context of Finnish influence and consequent Finland Swedish language loss, suggesting that the use of these features in Swedish is stigmatise…
N400 or P600?—A Systematic Review of ERP Studies on Gender Stereotype Violations
Psycholinguistic studies using the event‐related brain potential (ERP) technique have found both N400 and P600 effects for gender stereotype violations. The finding of a P600 effect for this type of world knowledge violation is surprizing given that this component is traditionally associated with syntactic violations. In this paper, we set out to systematically analyse design‐ and task patterns of ERP studies investigating gender stereotype viola…
Learning in English
The purpose of this research synthesis was to map research on students' language skills and content learning in English as medium of instruction (EMI) contexts for countries with advanced English skills and wide use of EMI. Systematic searches resulted in a total of 38 relevant EMI studies conducted on the nine European countries meeting our selection criteria (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, and the Nethe…
Linguistics (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Danish (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works)