Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New book review 🙂 doi.org/10.1017/S136...doi.orgDiana Wengler, Dialect on air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts (Varieties of English Around the World G71). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2025. Pp. xvii + 198. ISBN 978902...Diana Wengler, Dialect on air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts (Varieties of English Around the World G71). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2025. Pp. xvii + 198. ISBN 978902... 000
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New acoustic phonetic study on vowels in English in the Eastern Caribbean (open access) 🙂 doi.org/10.1075/eww.... 084
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026New corpus phonetic study on Nigerian and Ghanaian English together with Ulrike Gut 🙂 in a wonderful volume edited by Valentin Werner, Ole Schützler, Julia Schlüter, Gabriele Knappe, Lukas Sönning, and Fabian Vetter. doi.org/10.1515/9783... 010
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Mate, man, love, bro, bruv💥 New co-authored, corpus-based paper on variation and change in the affiliative vocative system in British English :) with Mariam Gagua, Lisa-Christine Altendorf, Christina Nelson, and Robert Fuchs doi.org/10.1111/weng...doi.orgRecent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British EnglishThis 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 ... 021
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Newly 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/zeno... 011
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 27/06/2025New co-authored article: Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students 🙂 doi.org/10.1017/S026...doi.orgExploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students | English Today | Cambridge CoreExploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students 040
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Samantha Jackson, Miriam Schmalz , and I contributed a chapter on Trinidad and Tobago to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 😊 doi.org/10.1002/9781...doi.orgTrinidad and Tobago, English and Creoles inThe Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the second most populated English-official country of the Caribbean. Located just north of the Venezuelan coast, it is the southernmost island state of the regi... 130
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Ryan Durgasingh and I contributed a chapter to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 🙂 doi.org/10.1002/9781...doi.orgCaribbean Creoles and Englishes: Sociophonetic and Morphosyntactic VariationThis entry offers a state-of-the-art overview of sociolinguistic variation in the Anglophone Caribbean with a focus on sociophonetic and morphosyntactic aspects. It draws on the creole continuum mode.... 030
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I was recently interviewed by a journalist (taz - die Tageszeitung) about accent prejudice. The article is now available online 🙂 taz.de/Akzente-und-...taz.deAkzente und Rassismus: Sexy, kompetent oder ungebildetWelches Vorurteil Menschen über einen haben, hängt oft davon ab, ob man akzentfrei spricht. Und davon, woher der Akzent stammt. 061
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Estou 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-bamberg.de/index.php/87...engling.limesurvey.rz.uni-bamberg.de Prepositions in Learner Usage (BRA) 022
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I have a new private website. Feel free to check it out :) sites.google.com/view/philipp...sites.google.comDr. Philipp MeerDr. Philipp MeerPostdoctoral researcher University of Münster, Germany 010
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New corpus phonetic paper on Nigerian English together with Ulrike Gut 🙂 doi.org/10.1111/weng... Part of a Special Issue on Nigerian English edited by Kingsley Ugwuanyi. Thank you, Kingsley, for having us!doi.orgConsonant clusters in Nigerian EnglishThis study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus-based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadc... 031
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025🙌 PhD scholarships in (Applied) Linguistics at the University of Münster (GER) 🙌 Please spread the word! And let me know if you have any questions. www.uni-muenster.de/Promotionsko...uni-muenster.deCall for Applications: DAAD ScholarshipsPromotionskolleg Sprachwissenschaft 044
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025🤩 New edited book 🤩 w/ Ryan Durgasingh With wonderful contributions by Stephan Elspaß, Jutta Ransmayr, Konstantin Niehaus, Edgar W. Schneider, Sarah Buschfeld, Andreas Weilinghoff, and Arne Dhondt et al. - plus a thematic introduction and conclusion 🙂 benjamins.com/catalog/silv...benjamins.comPluricentricity and PluriarealityThis edited collection approaches the contentious debate around pluricentricity vs pluriareality of standard language varieties and their distribution. With a focus on English, German, and Dutch, this... 062
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 04/07/2024And another joint paper with Ronald Francis and Robert Fuchs on "Lexical stress perception among Trinidadian English listeners" 🇹🇹👂 doi.org/10.21437/Spe...doi.orgISCA Archive 030
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 04/07/2024New co-authored paper on speech rhythm (and other prosodic aspects) of Brazilian Learner English 🇧🇷 - together with Leônidas Silva Jr 🙂 doi.org/10.21437/Spe...doi.orgISCA Archive 020
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 01/12/2023New 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. www.wvttrier.de/p/rethinking...wvttrier.deRethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education - WVT - Wissenschaftli...Ricardo Römhild, Anika Marxl, Frauke Matz, Philipp Siepmann (Eds.) Rethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education 000
Philipp Meer @phimee.bsky.social · 21/11/2023New publication 🙂 in this wonderful volume edited by Mirjam Schmalz, Manuela Vida-Mannl, Sarah Buschfeld, and Thorsten Brato. Drawing on sociophonetic data of 100 speakers, my chapter investigates rhotacization of the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English. doi.org/10.1515/9783...doi.org13 Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adol...13 Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adolescent and adult speakers was published in Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes on page 279. 080