A Leemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 2830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Leemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Leemann |
| SIGNATURE | LEEMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9401-8938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Sociodemographics: Attitudinal and Personality Predictors of Lexical Change
Moving beyond traditional sociodemographic models, this study investigates the psychometric drivers of lexical change. Using Swiss German as a case study, we compare historical data from the Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (1939–1958) with a recent large-scale app-based survey (N = 1013) to quantify trajectories over the past century. We identify four distinct mechanisms: exogenous convergence (Schmetterling), endo-normative leveling (Rande), e…
Articulation of the STRUT vowel in L2 English speakers of Swiss German
Given the importance of pronunciation in effective communication, this study investigates Swiss German speakers’ realisation of the English STRUT vowel. Anecdotally, such speakers use this sound more as an open-back vowel. The present study examined 54 students from two different school backgrounds reading out loud. The study involved a comparison of the students' vowel production with the standard British reference vowels as presented in school …
An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics
This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations. With pedagogical features including real-life case studies, exercises, and links to further reading, topics covered include: • Profiling fro…
Saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland
Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change
Although personality-related factors play a crucial role in sociolinguistics as conceivable sources of language variation and change, there is insufficient quantitative evidence on such relationships. Using a large and balanced sample ( n = 1000), this study investigated effects of personality traits on the use of a Swiss German plural marker in its early stages of diffusion. Besides age and region, conscientiousness and extraversion emerged as t…
Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions
Smartphone apps are ubiquitous: in 2018 in Germany alone, 79% of the population owned a smartphone. Virtually everyone in this cohort always carries with them a recording device and a notepad (i.e., a screen), two essential tools that linguists typically use in the field. In the present contribution we discuss how linguists can harness this ubiquity of linguistic tools in the population to capture language variation and change, illustrated throug…
Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing
Linguistic data collection typically involves conducting interviews with participants in close proximity. The safety precautions related to the COVID-19 pandemic brought such data collection to an abrupt halt: Social distancing forced linguistic fieldwork into involuntary hibernation in many parts of the world. Such hardship, however, can inspire innovation. In this contribution, we present an approach that – we believe – enables a reliable switc…
Sussex by the sea: A descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the South East of England based on English Dialect App data
Dialects in the South East of England are very often perceived as one homogenous mass, without much regional variation. Rosewarne introduced the notion of Estuary English and defined it as ‘variety of modified regional speech [ . . . ] a mixture of non-regional and local south-eastern English pronunciation and intonation’ (Rosewarne, 1984). However, studies such as Przedlacka (2001) and Torgersen & Kerswill (2004) have shown that, at least on the…
East Anglian English in the English Dialects App: Regional variation in East Anglian English based on evidence from a smartphone-based survey
East Anglian English was the first British variety of English to be subject to dialectological scrutiny using sociolinguistic techniques (Trudgill, 1974, and his subsequent work) and since then has been subject to only sporadic investigation (e.g. Britain, 1991, 2014a, 2014b, 2015; Kingston, 2000; Straw, 2006; Amos, 2011; Potter, 2012, 2018; Butcher, 2015). Recent research has suggested that, in those few locations that have been investigated, Ea…
The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus
In this paper, we present the English Dialects App (EDA) and the English Dialects App Corpus (EDAC). EDA is a free iOS and Android app, launched in January 2016 that features a dialect quiz and dialect recordings. For the quiz, users indicate which variants of 26 words they use and the application guesses their local dialect; for the recordings, users can record a short text. The result is EDAC which includes metadata on mobility, ethnicity, age,…
The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker's dialect
The recognition of read and spontaneous speech in local vernacular: The case of Zurich German
The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
Several western Swiss German dialects roughly grouped around the nation's capital Bern show /l/ > [u] vocalization in various contexts. The spatial boundaries of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German are suspected to have been expanding since being described in the Linguistic Atlas of German-Speaking Switzerland in the middle of the 20th century. The present study assesses the overall expansion of /l/-vocalization by means of a rapid anonymous survey …
Organisationsformen der balinesischen Gesellschaft
No abstract available
Einleitung zum Themenheft Bali (Indonesien)
No abstract available
Zeremonien im Lebensablauf der Balinesen
No abstract available
Geographen in der Dritten Welt
No abstract available
Aktuelle Informationen zur Geographie in der Schule
No abstract available
Veränderte Methoden der Reisernte: Ländlicher Wandel in Java
No abstract available
Glaubensgemeinschaften auf Lombok
No abstract available
Die Würmschotter im Hochrheinabschnitt von Lottstetten bis Koblenz: Ein Vergleich der Ergebnisse Grauls mit den Ansichten der Zürcher Arbeitsgruppe
Die vorliegende Arbeit zielt vor allem auf einen Vergleich zwischen den ausführlichen Darlegungen Grauls (1962) zum Jungquartär (u. a. Niederterrassen im Gebiet des Hochrheins) und den Ergebnissen, welche eine Zürcher Arbeitsgruppe anhand von Feldarbeit und unter Auswertung vieler Bohrungen im betreffenden Untersuchungsraum erhalten hat. Der beiliegenden Karte können die gewonnenen Resultate anschaulich entnommen werden. In verschiedenen Problemk…
Barbados
No abstract available
Curaçao
No abstract available
Trinidad
No abstract available
Arica und seine Verbindung mit dem bolivianischen Altiplano
No abstract available
Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change
Although personality-related factors play a crucial role in sociolinguistics as conceivable sources of language variation and change, there is insufficient quantitative evidence on such relationships. Using a large and balanced sample ( n = 1000), this study investigated effects of personality traits on the use of a Swiss German plural marker in its early stages of diffusion. Besides age and region, conscientiousness and extraversion emerged as t…
The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
Several western Swiss German dialects roughly grouped around the nation's capital Bern show /l/ > [u] vocalization in various contexts. The spatial boundaries of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German are suspected to have been expanding since being described in the Linguistic Atlas of German-Speaking Switzerland in the middle of the 20th century. The present study assesses the overall expansion of /l/-vocalization by means of a rapid anonymous survey …
The recognition of read and spontaneous speech in local vernacular: The case of Zurich German
Saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland
The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker's dialect
Arica und seine Verbindung mit dem bolivianischen Altiplano
No abstract available
Trinidad
No abstract available
Barbados
No abstract available
Curaçao
No abstract available
Die Würmschotter im Hochrheinabschnitt von Lottstetten bis Koblenz: Ein Vergleich der Ergebnisse Grauls mit den Ansichten der Zürcher Arbeitsgruppe
Die vorliegende Arbeit zielt vor allem auf einen Vergleich zwischen den ausführlichen Darlegungen Grauls (1962) zum Jungquartär (u. a. Niederterrassen im Gebiet des Hochrheins) und den Ergebnissen, welche eine Zürcher Arbeitsgruppe anhand von Feldarbeit und unter Auswertung vieler Bohrungen im betreffenden Untersuchungsraum erhalten hat. Der beiliegenden Karte können die gewonnenen Resultate anschaulich entnommen werden. In verschiedenen Problemk…
Glaubensgemeinschaften auf Lombok
No abstract available
Veränderte Methoden der Reisernte: Ländlicher Wandel in Java
No abstract available
Geographen in der Dritten Welt
No abstract available
Aktuelle Informationen zur Geographie in der Schule
No abstract available
Zeremonien im Lebensablauf der Balinesen
No abstract available
Organisationsformen der balinesischen Gesellschaft
No abstract available
Einleitung zum Themenheft Bali (Indonesien)
No abstract available
The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
Several western Swiss German dialects roughly grouped around the nation's capital Bern show /l/ > [u] vocalization in various contexts. The spatial boundaries of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German are suspected to have been expanding since being described in the Linguistic Atlas of German-Speaking Switzerland in the middle of the 20th century. The present study assesses the overall expansion of /l/-vocalization by means of a rapid anonymous survey …
The recognition of read and spontaneous speech in local vernacular: The case of Zurich German
The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus
In this paper, we present the English Dialects App (EDA) and the English Dialects App Corpus (EDAC). EDA is a free iOS and Android app, launched in January 2016 that features a dialect quiz and dialect recordings. For the quiz, users indicate which variants of 26 words they use and the application guesses their local dialect; for the recordings, users can record a short text. The result is EDAC which includes metadata on mobility, ethnicity, age,…
The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker's dialect
Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing
Linguistic data collection typically involves conducting interviews with participants in close proximity. The safety precautions related to the COVID-19 pandemic brought such data collection to an abrupt halt: Social distancing forced linguistic fieldwork into involuntary hibernation in many parts of the world. Such hardship, however, can inspire innovation. In this contribution, we present an approach that – we believe – enables a reliable switc…
Sussex by the sea: A descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the South East of England based on English Dialect App data
Dialects in the South East of England are very often perceived as one homogenous mass, without much regional variation. Rosewarne introduced the notion of Estuary English and defined it as ‘variety of modified regional speech [ . . . ] a mixture of non-regional and local south-eastern English pronunciation and intonation’ (Rosewarne, 1984). However, studies such as Przedlacka (2001) and Torgersen & Kerswill (2004) have shown that, at least on the…
East Anglian English in the English Dialects App: Regional variation in East Anglian English based on evidence from a smartphone-based survey
East Anglian English was the first British variety of English to be subject to dialectological scrutiny using sociolinguistic techniques (Trudgill, 1974, and his subsequent work) and since then has been subject to only sporadic investigation (e.g. Britain, 1991, 2014a, 2014b, 2015; Kingston, 2000; Straw, 2006; Amos, 2011; Potter, 2012, 2018; Butcher, 2015). Recent research has suggested that, in those few locations that have been investigated, Ea…
Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions
Smartphone apps are ubiquitous: in 2018 in Germany alone, 79% of the population owned a smartphone. Virtually everyone in this cohort always carries with them a recording device and a notepad (i.e., a screen), two essential tools that linguists typically use in the field. In the present contribution we discuss how linguists can harness this ubiquity of linguistic tools in the population to capture language variation and change, illustrated throug…
Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change
Although personality-related factors play a crucial role in sociolinguistics as conceivable sources of language variation and change, there is insufficient quantitative evidence on such relationships. Using a large and balanced sample ( n = 1000), this study investigated effects of personality traits on the use of a Swiss German plural marker in its early stages of diffusion. Besides age and region, conscientiousness and extraversion emerged as t…
An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics
This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations. With pedagogical features including real-life case studies, exercises, and links to further reading, topics covered include: • Profiling fro…
Saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland
Articulation of the STRUT vowel in L2 English speakers of Swiss German
Given the importance of pronunciation in effective communication, this study investigates Swiss German speakers’ realisation of the English STRUT vowel. Anecdotally, such speakers use this sound more as an open-back vowel. The present study examined 54 students from two different school backgrounds reading out loud. The study involved a comparison of the students' vowel production with the standard British reference vowels as presented in school …
Beyond Sociodemographics: Attitudinal and Personality Predictors of Lexical Change
Moving beyond traditional sociodemographic models, this study investigates the psychometric drivers of lexical change. Using Swiss German as a case study, we compare historical data from the Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (1939–1958) with a recent large-scale app-based survey (N = 1013) to quantify trajectories over the past century. We identify four distinct mechanisms: exogenous convergence (Schmetterling), endo-normative leveling (Rande), e…
Linguistics (11 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · German (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works)