Jörg Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jörg Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jörg |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2499-1529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On the relationship between language dominance and fluency in bilingual speakers of Low and High German
Aims and objectives: Bilingual speakers are rarely equally proficient in both languages, making the determination of language dominance a major challenge. For a regional language like Low German, an additional challenge is the absence of a standard variety as a reference. To assess language dominance in both standardized and non-standardized languages, examining oral fluency provides a promising, non-invasive source of information. In this paper,…
Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis
We investigate the long-run impacts of a one-time randomized entrepreneurial cash grant in Uganda during COVID-19 lockdowns, twelve years after the intervention. Previous research documented considerable positive effects after four years, which vanished for income after nine years, while some structural changes persisted. For the 12-year follow-up, we find positive effects on employment and income, but for men only, and no effects on food securit…
Wandel und Stabilität der Sprachkompetenz in Übersetzungsdaten: Eine Variablenanalyse niederdeutscher Wenkersätze. A Variable Analysis of Low German Wenker Sentences
Are rural energy access programs pro-poor? Some are, many are not
This perspective article discusses whether energy access programs in rural Sub-Saharan Africa reach the poor in a way that most policy actors claim. We examine on- and off-grid electrification as well as improved cooking. We focus on whether the poor adopt the respective technology in typical access programs and on the triggered productive use potentials to examine both direct and indirect potential pro-poor effects. Backed by the most recent lit…
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science
This article reviews and summarizes current reproduction and replication practices in political science. We first provide definitions for reproducibility and replicability. We then review data availability policies for 28 leading political science journals and present the results from a survey of editors about their willingness to publish comments and replications. We discuss new initiatives that seek to promote and generate high-quality reproduc…
The forgotten coal: Charcoal demand in sub-Saharan Africa
Charcoal is an important cooking fuel in urban Africa. In this paper, we estimate the current number of charcoal users and project trends for the coming decades. Charcoal production is often not effectively regulated, and it hence contributes to forest degradation. Moreover, charcoal has adverse health effects for its users. At the same time, charcoal constitutes an important income source in deprived rural areas, while the current alternative, g…
Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian
In order to investigate the effect of time pressure on the execution of falling and falling-rising pitch movements on phrase-final syllables, we ran a production experiment with 119 speakers distributed over five regional varieties of West-Germanic spoken in the Netherlands and Standard Dutch. They realized nuclear Falls and Fall-Rises on four IP-final monosyllabic target words in which the duration of the sonorant portion of the syllable rhyme w…
Efficient biomass cooking in Africa for climate change mitigation and development
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Northwestern Europe
The Continental Germanic languages fall into a northern group including Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, and a western group including Dutch, High German, Low German, West Frisian, Afrikaans, and Yiddish. This chapter gives an overview of the lexical tone accent systems that are found in languages of both groups; these appear to be unrelated, in view of the variable conditioning. Central properties of the stress systems are summarized, as are the …
Standard German vowel productions by monolingual and trilingual speakers
Aims and Objectives: Studies on vowel productions of speakers from bilingual communities report not only interactions between the first and second language, but also monolingual-like realizations. The present study expands a prior acoustic investigation of Saterland trilinguals by studying the substrate effect of Saterland Frisian and Low German on the trilinguals’ standard language Northern Standard German. The research aim is to test whether th…
Franconian tones fare better as tones than as feet: A reply to Köhnlein (2016)
Köhnlein (2016) proposes to represent the Franconian tone contrast as a difference in foot structure, whereby Accent 1 appears in lexically marked syllabic trochees and Accent 2 in default moraic trochees, as an alternative to analyses with an underlying privative tone for Accent 2. After sketching the two approaches, we argue against three arguments Köhnlein advances in favour of the metrical analysis. We then show that one of the disadvantages …
Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa , by A. Estache and Q. Wodon
Since the 1960s and 1970s, the international community has dedicated a considerable amount of its lending portfolios and technical assistance capacities to investments into infrastructure such as r
Outdoor cooking prevalence in developing countries and its implication for clean cooking policies
More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental health implications related to smoke emissions. Global initiatives to disseminate clean cooking stoves emphasize technologies that are either expensive, such as electricity and gasifier stoves, or for which supply chains hardly reach rural areas, such as LPG. This emphasis neglects that many households in the developing world cook outdoors. Our calculations …
Saterland Frisian
Saterland Frisian (Sfrs. Seeltersk ) is the only living remnant of Old East Frisian. It is an endangered language, with an estimated number of 2250 speakers (Stellmacher 1998: 27) and is spoken in the municipality of the Saterland (Sfrs. Seelterlound ), which is located in the federal state of Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany
Does Large-Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda’s Electricity Access Roll-Out Program
Television and Contraceptive Use – A Weak Signal
In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread throughout the developing world. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for influencing behaviour, including reproductive decisions. After replicating Westoff and Koffman’s (2011) finding of a positive correlation between television ownership and contraception using pooled Indonesian data, we proceed to esti…
Impacts of a Micro-Enterprise Clustering Programme on Firm Performance in Ghana
The phonetic realization of focus in West Frisian, Low Saxon, High German, and three varieties of Dutch
Einführung in die Phonologie und Graphematik
Einführung in die Phonologie und Graphematik
Rural Electrification and Fertility – Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
Using household-level survey data from Côte d'Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a particular focus on the effect of electrification. Based on a Poisson regression model, our analysis suggests a highly significant relationship between fertility and electricity, but one that is only revealed when the model distinguishes between rural and urban areas. Specifically, we find a positive association between electricity a…
Grid Extension in Rural Benin: Micro-Manufacturers and the Electrification Trap
The Flemish-Brabant dialect of Orsmaal-Gussenhoven
Orsmaal-Gussenhoven is a small village in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant with about one thousand residents. It is located halfway between the towns of Tienen (Brabant) in the west and St.-Truiden (Limburg) in the east, and about 12 km north of the Dutch-French language border, which separates the northern part of Belgium (Flanders) from its southern part (Wallonia). No systematic description of the local dialect is available (for a topon…
Tone and intonation in the dialect of Hasselt
n Contains fulltext :\n 68267.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Does Large-Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda’s Electricity Access Roll-Out Program
Grid Extension in Rural Benin: Micro-Manufacturers and the Electrification Trap
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science
This article reviews and summarizes current reproduction and replication practices in political science. We first provide definitions for reproducibility and replicability. We then review data availability policies for 28 leading political science journals and present the results from a survey of editors about their willingness to publish comments and replications. We discuss new initiatives that seek to promote and generate high-quality reproduc…
The phonetic realization of focus in West Frisian, Low Saxon, High German, and three varieties of Dutch
The dialect of Hasselt
Hasselt is the capital of the Belgian province of Limburg, with a population of some 68,000. The town is situated in the northern part of Belgium, about 35 km west of the national border between Belgium and the Netherlands, and 20 km north of the Dutch-French language border, which separates Belgium into a northern part (Flanders) and a southern part (Wallonia). The dialect of Hasselt belongs to the West-Limburgian dialect group (Goossens 1965). …
The forgotten coal: Charcoal demand in sub-Saharan Africa
Charcoal is an important cooking fuel in urban Africa. In this paper, we estimate the current number of charcoal users and project trends for the coming decades. Charcoal production is often not effectively regulated, and it hence contributes to forest degradation. Moreover, charcoal has adverse health effects for its users. At the same time, charcoal constitutes an important income source in deprived rural areas, while the current alternative, g…
Tone and intonation in the dialect of Hasselt
n Contains fulltext :\n 68267.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Impacts of a Micro-Enterprise Clustering Programme on Firm Performance in Ghana
The Flemish-Brabant dialect of Orsmaal-Gussenhoven
Orsmaal-Gussenhoven is a small village in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant with about one thousand residents. It is located halfway between the towns of Tienen (Brabant) in the west and St.-Truiden (Limburg) in the east, and about 12 km north of the Dutch-French language border, which separates the northern part of Belgium (Flanders) from its southern part (Wallonia). No systematic description of the local dialect is available (for a topon…
Identification of Regional Varieties by Intonational Cues: An Experimental Study on Hamburg and Berlin German
Two experiments examined the commonly held belief that regional varieties of German can be identified by intonational features alone. In both experiments, listeners were presented with regional intonational contours of German. In the first experiment, listeners judged contours of Hamburg urban vernacular compared with contours of Northern Standard German. In the second experiment, listeners judged contours of Berlin urban vernacular compared with…
Identification of Regional Varieties by Intonational Cues: An Experimental Study on Hamburg and Berlin German
Two experiments examined the commonly held belief that regional varieties of German can be identified by intonational features alone. In both experiments, listeners were presented with regional intonational contours of German. In the first experiment, listeners judged contours of Hamburg urban vernacular compared with contours of Northern Standard German. In the second experiment, listeners judged contours of Berlin urban vernacular compared with…
A tonal analysis of Cologne Schärfung
The word prosody of the dialect of Cologne includes a phonological contrast in stressed syllables which at first sight might either reflect a ternary quantity contrast or a binary quantity contrast plus a tone contrast. There are differences in duration as well as F0 between Accent 1 ( Schärfung ) and Accent 2, along with differences in the intensity profiles of the syllables. It is argued that the contrast is one between an unspecified lexical t…
Intonation deutscher Regionalsprachen
This study examines the regional differences between voice intonations in German, in particular the difference between the urban regional languages of Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Duisburg, Mannheim and Freiburg. The study develops a fundamental methodology for analytically capturing the phenomenon of "intonational variance" and is based on a large, empirically-derived set of data. The study creates a solid foundation for the continuing research and…
The dialect of Hasselt
Hasselt is the capital of the Belgian province of Limburg, with a population of some 68,000. The town is situated in the northern part of Belgium, about 35 km west of the national border between Belgium and the Netherlands, and 20 km north of the Dutch-French language border, which separates Belgium into a northern part (Flanders) and a southern part (Wallonia). The dialect of Hasselt belongs to the West-Limburgian dialect group (Goossens 1965). …
Tone and intonation in the dialect of Hasselt
n Contains fulltext :\n 68267.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Grid Extension in Rural Benin: Micro-Manufacturers and the Electrification Trap
The Flemish-Brabant dialect of Orsmaal-Gussenhoven
Orsmaal-Gussenhoven is a small village in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant with about one thousand residents. It is located halfway between the towns of Tienen (Brabant) in the west and St.-Truiden (Limburg) in the east, and about 12 km north of the Dutch-French language border, which separates the northern part of Belgium (Flanders) from its southern part (Wallonia). No systematic description of the local dialect is available (for a topon…
Rural Electrification and Fertility – Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
Using household-level survey data from Côte d'Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a particular focus on the effect of electrification. Based on a Poisson regression model, our analysis suggests a highly significant relationship between fertility and electricity, but one that is only revealed when the model distinguishes between rural and urban areas. Specifically, we find a positive association between electricity a…
Einführung in die Phonologie und Graphematik
Einführung in die Phonologie und Graphematik
Television and Contraceptive Use – A Weak Signal
In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread throughout the developing world. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for influencing behaviour, including reproductive decisions. After replicating Westoff and Koffman’s (2011) finding of a positive correlation between television ownership and contraception using pooled Indonesian data, we proceed to esti…
Impacts of a Micro-Enterprise Clustering Programme on Firm Performance in Ghana
The phonetic realization of focus in West Frisian, Low Saxon, High German, and three varieties of Dutch
Does Large-Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda’s Electricity Access Roll-Out Program
Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa , by A. Estache and Q. Wodon
Since the 1960s and 1970s, the international community has dedicated a considerable amount of its lending portfolios and technical assistance capacities to investments into infrastructure such as r
Outdoor cooking prevalence in developing countries and its implication for clean cooking policies
More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental health implications related to smoke emissions. Global initiatives to disseminate clean cooking stoves emphasize technologies that are either expensive, such as electricity and gasifier stoves, or for which supply chains hardly reach rural areas, such as LPG. This emphasis neglects that many households in the developing world cook outdoors. Our calculations …
Saterland Frisian
Saterland Frisian (Sfrs. Seeltersk ) is the only living remnant of Old East Frisian. It is an endangered language, with an estimated number of 2250 speakers (Stellmacher 1998: 27) and is spoken in the municipality of the Saterland (Sfrs. Seelterlound ), which is located in the federal state of Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany
Standard German vowel productions by monolingual and trilingual speakers
Aims and Objectives: Studies on vowel productions of speakers from bilingual communities report not only interactions between the first and second language, but also monolingual-like realizations. The present study expands a prior acoustic investigation of Saterland trilinguals by studying the substrate effect of Saterland Frisian and Low German on the trilinguals’ standard language Northern Standard German. The research aim is to test whether th…
Franconian tones fare better as tones than as feet: A reply to Köhnlein (2016)
Köhnlein (2016) proposes to represent the Franconian tone contrast as a difference in foot structure, whereby Accent 1 appears in lexically marked syllabic trochees and Accent 2 in default moraic trochees, as an alternative to analyses with an underlying privative tone for Accent 2. After sketching the two approaches, we argue against three arguments Köhnlein advances in favour of the metrical analysis. We then show that one of the disadvantages …
Northwestern Europe
The Continental Germanic languages fall into a northern group including Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, and a western group including Dutch, High German, Low German, West Frisian, Afrikaans, and Yiddish. This chapter gives an overview of the lexical tone accent systems that are found in languages of both groups; these appear to be unrelated, in view of the variable conditioning. Central properties of the stress systems are summarized, as are the …
Efficient biomass cooking in Africa for climate change mitigation and development
Replikationskrise (?)
The forgotten coal: Charcoal demand in sub-Saharan Africa
Charcoal is an important cooking fuel in urban Africa. In this paper, we estimate the current number of charcoal users and project trends for the coming decades. Charcoal production is often not effectively regulated, and it hence contributes to forest degradation. Moreover, charcoal has adverse health effects for its users. At the same time, charcoal constitutes an important income source in deprived rural areas, while the current alternative, g…
Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian
In order to investigate the effect of time pressure on the execution of falling and falling-rising pitch movements on phrase-final syllables, we ran a production experiment with 119 speakers distributed over five regional varieties of West-Germanic spoken in the Netherlands and Standard Dutch. They realized nuclear Falls and Fall-Rises on four IP-final monosyllabic target words in which the duration of the sonorant portion of the syllable rhyme w…
Are rural energy access programs pro-poor? Some are, many are not
This perspective article discusses whether energy access programs in rural Sub-Saharan Africa reach the poor in a way that most policy actors claim. We examine on- and off-grid electrification as well as improved cooking. We focus on whether the poor adopt the respective technology in typical access programs and on the triggered productive use potentials to examine both direct and indirect potential pro-poor effects. Backed by the most recent lit…
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