Robert Fuchs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Fuchs |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Fuchs |
| ASSINATURA | FUCHS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7694-062X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude , bro , girl , dear , love , and others) across gender, age, social class, and relationship type. Mixed‐effects logistic regressio…
Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide
The YouTube corpus of Singapore English podcasts
Recent advances in streaming protocols and automatic speech recognition (ASR) have enabled large-scale spoken language corpora, yet research on Singapore English remains constrained by small or text-based datasets. The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts (YCSEP) addresses this gap with 620 hours of transcribed, diarized speech from over 1,300 podcast episodes by Singapore-based content creators. YCSEP supports the empirical analysis of p…
Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad
Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis of several pitch parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change, and tone rate) in English language data from Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad that comprises read and sponta…
The Trini Sing-Song
The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether a high degree of variability in pitch may be considered a characteristic, endonormative feature of Trinidadian English (TrinE) at the level of speech production and contribute to what is popularly described as ‘sing-song’ prosody. Based on read and spontaneous data from 111 speakers, we analyze pitch level, range, and dynamism in TrinE in comparison to Southern Standard…
Recent change in stative progressives
The spread of the progressive from dynamic to stative verbs started in the seventeenth century, and slowed down in the late twentieth century. The present study investigates recent change in the use of stative progressives in conversational British English from the early 1990s to the early 2010s. The analysis focuses on a total of 100 stative verb lemmata in the spoken, demographic sections of the original and new British National Corpus , restri…
Rhotics in Standard Scottish English
The present study investigates rhotics in Standard Scottish English (SSE). Drawing on an auditory analysis of formal speeches given in the Scottish parliament by 49 speakers (members of parliament and the general public), it examines whether an underlying rhotic standard exists for SSE speakers from all over Scotland, whether and where rhotics are realized as trills/taps or approximants, and what factors influence variation in the realization and…
World Englishes and grammatical variation
Less than three decades after the launch of the International Corpus of English project, corpus‐based research on world Englishes has enjoyed continued success. A wide variety of corpora and databases are now available to researchers, which allow for the exploration of very large datasets of varieties of English all over the globe, including historical data, as found in diachronic corpora that have recently been released for varieties other than …
The progressive in 19th and 20th century settler and indigenous Indian English
Based on a diachronic newspaper corpus, this study analyses change in the use of the progressive in the Indian English (IndE) settler strand and indigenous strand varieties from 1900 to 2000, comparing it to developments in British English (BrE). Results indicate that these three varieties showed distinct patterns of usage. The IndE indigenous strand reveals evidence of substrate transfer in the use of perfect progressives and unbounded/undelimit…
‘I don’t get time only’
Research on the historical development of varieties of English usually tracks influence from established, so-called Inner Circle, varieties of English (such as British English) to less established Outer Circle varieties (such as Indian English). Recently, evidence of convergent patterns of language use in a number of Outer Circle Asian varieties has emerged, which might have been caused by the influence of Indian English in the region, but the ex…
Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties
L1 background is often described as the main factor accounting for variation in postcolonial ESL varieties. However, recent studies (e.g. Mesthrie 2009 , 2017 ) suggest that variation patterns in ESL varieties can in some cases also be linked to identity factors rooted in local patterns of intergroup relations. This study examines the interrelation between L1 background and such identity factors in the phonetic patterns found in the English varie…
A cluster analysis of attitudes to English in Germany and the Netherlands
Although English is becoming increasingly entrenched in Western Europe, large-scale comparative studies of attitudes among the general public to this development are scarce. We investigate over 4,000 Dutch and Germans' attitudes towards English based on responses to an attitudinal questionnaire. Respondents saw English as a useful additional language, but not generally as a threat to their national language. Using k-means, an unsupervised cluster…
Do women (still) use more intensifiers than men
This study investigates how age, gender, social class and dialect influence how frequently speakers of British English use intensifiers (e.g. very ) in private conversations and whether this has changed over the last two decades. With data drawn from over 600 speakers and 4M words included in the Spoken British National Corpus (1994 and 2014 Sample), it is the most comprehensive study of intensifier usage to date, taking into account 111 intensif…
Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora
This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time-aligned corpora ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Scotland, which belong to the 'new generation' of ICE corpora. Some files from the categories broadcast talk and unscripted speeches in ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland were phonemically annotated and analysed, and for each speaker the mean length of run ( = average number of words pe…
Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)
In this paper, we provide an overview of the new GloWbE Corpus — the Corpus of Global Web-based English. GloWbE is based on 1.9 billion words in 1.8 million web pages from 20 different English-speaking countries. Approximately 60 percent of the corpus comes from informal blogs, and the rest from a wide range of other genres and text types. Because of its large size, its architecture and interface, the corpus can be used to examine many types of v…
A reply
A reply to the commentaries by Christian Mair (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02mai), Joybrato Mukherjee (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02muk), Gerald Nelson (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02nel), and Pam Peters (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02pet)
We just don’t even know”
This study investigates the usage of the pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English (NigE). A comparison of ICE-Nigeria and ICE-GB showed diverging frequencies of both particles across different registers between the two varieties of English and a significantly higher overall usage of even in NigE. Qualitative analyses revealed that even has acquired a wide range of new pragmatic meanings in NigE, such as emphatic, affirmative, …
Focus marking and semantic transfer in Indian English
Focus marking in Indian English (IndE) with adverbs such as only , also , and too has been investigated recently by several authors. Based on the Indian and British sections of the International Corpus of English, this article argues that usage of also in IndE differs significantly from British English (BrE). Also often follows its focus immediately, has developed a presentational use, and is often used in negative contexts, corresponding to eith…
Characterisation of the pigments in a Ptolemaic Egyptian Book of the Dead papyrus
The "Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums" in the Period of Nazi Rule
Journal Article The "Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums" in the Period of Nazi Rule: Personal Recollections Get access Richard Fuchs Richard Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 1967, Pages 3–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/12.1.3 Published: 01 January 1967
We just don’t even know”
This study investigates the usage of the pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English (NigE). A comparison of ICE-Nigeria and ICE-GB showed diverging frequencies of both particles across different registers between the two varieties of English and a significantly higher overall usage of even in NigE. Qualitative analyses revealed that even has acquired a wide range of new pragmatic meanings in NigE, such as emphatic, affirmative, …
Do women (still) use more intensifiers than men
This study investigates how age, gender, social class and dialect influence how frequently speakers of British English use intensifiers (e.g. very ) in private conversations and whether this has changed over the last two decades. With data drawn from over 600 speakers and 4M words included in the Spoken British National Corpus (1994 and 2014 Sample), it is the most comprehensive study of intensifier usage to date, taking into account 111 intensif…
Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora
This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time-aligned corpora ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Scotland, which belong to the 'new generation' of ICE corpora. Some files from the categories broadcast talk and unscripted speeches in ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland were phonemically annotated and analysed, and for each speaker the mean length of run ( = average number of words pe…
Characterisation of the pigments in a Ptolemaic Egyptian Book of the Dead papyrus
A cluster analysis of attitudes to English in Germany and the Netherlands
Although English is becoming increasingly entrenched in Western Europe, large-scale comparative studies of attitudes among the general public to this development are scarce. We investigate over 4,000 Dutch and Germans' attitudes towards English based on responses to an attitudinal questionnaire. Respondents saw English as a useful additional language, but not generally as a threat to their national language. Using k-means, an unsupervised cluster…
Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad
Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis of several pitch parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change, and tone rate) in English language data from Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad that comprises read and sponta…
The Trini Sing-Song
The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether a high degree of variability in pitch may be considered a characteristic, endonormative feature of Trinidadian English (TrinE) at the level of speech production and contribute to what is popularly described as ‘sing-song’ prosody. Based on read and spontaneous data from 111 speakers, we analyze pitch level, range, and dynamism in TrinE in comparison to Southern Standard…
The progressive in 19th and 20th century settler and indigenous Indian English
Based on a diachronic newspaper corpus, this study analyses change in the use of the progressive in the Indian English (IndE) settler strand and indigenous strand varieties from 1900 to 2000, comparing it to developments in British English (BrE). Results indicate that these three varieties showed distinct patterns of usage. The IndE indigenous strand reveals evidence of substrate transfer in the use of perfect progressives and unbounded/undelimit…
Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties
L1 background is often described as the main factor accounting for variation in postcolonial ESL varieties. However, recent studies (e.g. Mesthrie 2009 , 2017 ) suggest that variation patterns in ESL varieties can in some cases also be linked to identity factors rooted in local patterns of intergroup relations. This study examines the interrelation between L1 background and such identity factors in the phonetic patterns found in the English varie…
Focus marking and semantic transfer in Indian English
Focus marking in Indian English (IndE) with adverbs such as only , also , and too has been investigated recently by several authors. Based on the Indian and British sections of the International Corpus of English, this article argues that usage of also in IndE differs significantly from British English (BrE). Also often follows its focus immediately, has developed a presentational use, and is often used in negative contexts, corresponding to eith…
The "Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums" in the Period of Nazi Rule
Journal Article The "Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums" in the Period of Nazi Rule: Personal Recollections Get access Richard Fuchs Richard Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 1967, Pages 3–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/12.1.3 Published: 01 January 1967
Characterisation of the pigments in a Ptolemaic Egyptian Book of the Dead papyrus
Focus marking and semantic transfer in Indian English
Focus marking in Indian English (IndE) with adverbs such as only , also , and too has been investigated recently by several authors. Based on the Indian and British sections of the International Corpus of English, this article argues that usage of also in IndE differs significantly from British English (BrE). Also often follows its focus immediately, has developed a presentational use, and is often used in negative contexts, corresponding to eith…
We just don’t even know”
This study investigates the usage of the pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English (NigE). A comparison of ICE-Nigeria and ICE-GB showed diverging frequencies of both particles across different registers between the two varieties of English and a significantly higher overall usage of even in NigE. Qualitative analyses revealed that even has acquired a wide range of new pragmatic meanings in NigE, such as emphatic, affirmative, …
Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)
In this paper, we provide an overview of the new GloWbE Corpus — the Corpus of Global Web-based English. GloWbE is based on 1.9 billion words in 1.8 million web pages from 20 different English-speaking countries. Approximately 60 percent of the corpus comes from informal blogs, and the rest from a wide range of other genres and text types. Because of its large size, its architecture and interface, the corpus can be used to examine many types of v…
A reply
A reply to the commentaries by Christian Mair (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02mai), Joybrato Mukherjee (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02muk), Gerald Nelson (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02nel), and Pam Peters (DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.02pet)
Do women (still) use more intensifiers than men
This study investigates how age, gender, social class and dialect influence how frequently speakers of British English use intensifiers (e.g. very ) in private conversations and whether this has changed over the last two decades. With data drawn from over 600 speakers and 4M words included in the Spoken British National Corpus (1994 and 2014 Sample), it is the most comprehensive study of intensifier usage to date, taking into account 111 intensif…
Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora
This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time-aligned corpora ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Scotland, which belong to the 'new generation' of ICE corpora. Some files from the categories broadcast talk and unscripted speeches in ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland were phonemically annotated and analysed, and for each speaker the mean length of run ( = average number of words pe…
A cluster analysis of attitudes to English in Germany and the Netherlands
Although English is becoming increasingly entrenched in Western Europe, large-scale comparative studies of attitudes among the general public to this development are scarce. We investigate over 4,000 Dutch and Germans' attitudes towards English based on responses to an attitudinal questionnaire. Respondents saw English as a useful additional language, but not generally as a threat to their national language. Using k-means, an unsupervised cluster…
‘I don’t get time only’
Research on the historical development of varieties of English usually tracks influence from established, so-called Inner Circle, varieties of English (such as British English) to less established Outer Circle varieties (such as Indian English). Recently, evidence of convergent patterns of language use in a number of Outer Circle Asian varieties has emerged, which might have been caused by the influence of Indian English in the region, but the ex…
Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties
L1 background is often described as the main factor accounting for variation in postcolonial ESL varieties. However, recent studies (e.g. Mesthrie 2009 , 2017 ) suggest that variation patterns in ESL varieties can in some cases also be linked to identity factors rooted in local patterns of intergroup relations. This study examines the interrelation between L1 background and such identity factors in the phonetic patterns found in the English varie…
World Englishes and grammatical variation
Less than three decades after the launch of the International Corpus of English project, corpus‐based research on world Englishes has enjoyed continued success. A wide variety of corpora and databases are now available to researchers, which allow for the exploration of very large datasets of varieties of English all over the globe, including historical data, as found in diachronic corpora that have recently been released for varieties other than …
The progressive in 19th and 20th century settler and indigenous Indian English
Based on a diachronic newspaper corpus, this study analyses change in the use of the progressive in the Indian English (IndE) settler strand and indigenous strand varieties from 1900 to 2000, comparing it to developments in British English (BrE). Results indicate that these three varieties showed distinct patterns of usage. The IndE indigenous strand reveals evidence of substrate transfer in the use of perfect progressives and unbounded/undelimit…
Recent change in stative progressives
The spread of the progressive from dynamic to stative verbs started in the seventeenth century, and slowed down in the late twentieth century. The present study investigates recent change in the use of stative progressives in conversational British English from the early 1990s to the early 2010s. The analysis focuses on a total of 100 stative verb lemmata in the spoken, demographic sections of the original and new British National Corpus , restri…
Rhotics in Standard Scottish English
The present study investigates rhotics in Standard Scottish English (SSE). Drawing on an auditory analysis of formal speeches given in the Scottish parliament by 49 speakers (members of parliament and the general public), it examines whether an underlying rhotic standard exists for SSE speakers from all over Scotland, whether and where rhotics are realized as trills/taps or approximants, and what factors influence variation in the realization and…
Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad
Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis of several pitch parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change, and tone rate) in English language data from Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad that comprises read and sponta…
The Trini Sing-Song
The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether a high degree of variability in pitch may be considered a characteristic, endonormative feature of Trinidadian English (TrinE) at the level of speech production and contribute to what is popularly described as ‘sing-song’ prosody. Based on read and spontaneous data from 111 speakers, we analyze pitch level, range, and dynamism in TrinE in comparison to Southern Standard…
Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide
The YouTube corpus of Singapore English podcasts
Recent advances in streaming protocols and automatic speech recognition (ASR) have enabled large-scale spoken language corpora, yet research on Singapore English remains constrained by small or text-based datasets. The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts (YCSEP) addresses this gap with 620 hours of transcribed, diarized speech from over 1,300 podcast episodes by Singapore-based content creators. YCSEP supports the empirical analysis of p…
Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude , bro , girl , dear , love , and others) across gender, age, social class, and relationship type. Mixed‐effects logistic regressio…
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