Philipp MeerUniversity of Münster | WWU · Department of Philology
Philipp Meer
Dr. phil.
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Introduction
I am a postdoctoral researcher in English linguistics at the University of Münster. My research focuses on World Englishes, sociolingusitics & sociophonetics, acoustic phonetics, language attitudes, corpus linguistics, and applied linguistics.
Please find more information on my website:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Staff/Meer.shtml
Additional affiliations
October 2019 - present
October 2016 - present
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Affiliated with Chair of English Linguistics (until 07/2020: ICE Scotland Corpus, PI: Ulrike Gut); Chair of Variation Linguistics (current project: Translocality in the Anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception, funded by DFG, PI: Dagmar Deuber)
Education
October 2014 - August 2016
October 2011 - August 2014
Publications
Publications (45)
Scottish English has characteristic phonological features including rhoticity, the /ʍ/-/w/ contrast and the lack of the nurse merger. However, recent studies have found ongoing changes in Scottish English phonology such as the gradual loss of rhoticity, the merging of /ʍ/-/w/ and a partial merger of the nurse vowels. This paper investigates possibl...
Pakistani English (PakE) is the local L2 variety of English used in Pakistan. Most previous research on the variety has been on morphosyntax, lexis and code-switching, and register variation (e.g. A. Mahmood 2009; R. Mahmood 2009; Shakir & Deuber 2018, 2019; Shakir 2020). Although some local studies have analyzed select acoustic properties of PakE...
US American English (AmE) influence has been identified as a potential force in variation and change in postcolonial Englishes. Adolescents are typically not examined in this context despite their crucial role in language variation and change and possibly greater exposure to AmE via digital media. Drawing on sociophonetic data from 65 secondary stu...
Cosmopolitan perspectives can enrich the field of 'Global Englishes Language Teaching' (GELT) by offering new approaches to exploring and investigating the role of cultural learning in the context of language variation. To corroborate this claim, this contribution revisits two language attitudinal studies (Meer, Hartmann & Rumlich 2021, 2022), whic...
The study investigates standard English speech production and perception in the secondary school context in Trinidad. The underlying aim is to contribute to the question of whether and to what degree an endonormative standard is emerging in Trinidad. Sociophonetic variation in the speech of 100 teachers and advanced students is analyzed at the voca...
Special Issue of the journal World Englishes
The English‐official Caribbean provides an insightful context for investigations of norm developmental processes, world Englishes theorizing, and mapping Englishes in multivarietal communities. While there has been an upsurge of linguistic research on the region, especially on emerging standardized varieties, little systematic empirical research ex...
This is a joint project of the members of the working group 'Ideologies, Beliefs, Attitudes' of the COST network 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' and discusses current themes and topics related to changing language ideologies in the context of digital technologies.
The research bibliography presented in this paper lists some of the major research outputs on Englishes in the Caribbean. While selected foundational studies are listed, the focus lies on works published since the year 2000. Considering the linguistic diversity of the anglophone Caribbean, the publications listed include works on English‐based Creo...
This article compares the attitudes of respondents from Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States toward speakers from these countries and from Grenada. Analyses of mean values on the attitude dimensions of status and solidarity reveal striking similarities between the rankings of the stimuli by the three respondent groups, esp...
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 ton...
In line with international developments in applied linguistics, school curricula in Germany have begun to demand that Global Englishes be included in English Language Teaching. However, the perspectives of German school students, the main addressees of such a shift, are little explored. This article investigates the attitudes to and familiarity wit...
This paper presents the results of two largely parallel verbal guise studies that elicited students’ attitudes toward different standard varieties of English. The studies were conducted in the small anglophone Caribbean island country of Grenada. The two studies were contextualized in the domains of education and newscasting, respectively, with the...
This article sets out to give a brief overview of phonetic and phonological aspects of Caribbean varieties of English. Specifically, it provides a general description of similarities and differences between Caribbean varieties with regard to select vocalic, consonantal, and prosodic features.
The worldwide spread, diversification, and globalization of the English language in the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has significant implications for English Language Teaching and teacher education.
We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift towards Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) that aims to pro...
The extent to which TEIL can be implemented in English language classrooms is regulated to a great extent by the curriculum of the country in question. This study provides a local perspective on the role of Global Englishes in the English language curricula in Germany – with a specific focus on non-British/non-American varieties of English. The res...
Teacher education is an influential factor in the implementation of TEIL. The present chapter provides first insights into the role of Global Englishes in the second phase of teacher education in Germany based on a qualitative study with teacher educators in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The results show that teacher educators genera...
English Language Education (ELE) in Germany, with its traditional focus on standard British and American English and native-speaker norms more broadly, appears to be relatively unaffected by recent developments toward Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL). The present chapter introduces the volume and its individual contributions, al...
Die weltweite Verbreitung, Globalisierung, und die hierdurch entstandene Varietätenvielfalt des Englischen sowie seine Stellung als globale Lingua Franca bringen bedeutsame Implikationen für den Englischunterricht ("English Language Teaching", ELT) und die Lehrkräfteausbildung mit sich. Während in Deutschland nach wie vor entweder das britische ode...
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...
While recent research on English language teaching (ELT) in Germany has called for a more comprehensive representation of the diversity of English worldwide, learners’ perceptions of Global Englishes are currently underresearched despite their importance for a successful implementation of this change in ELT. The present paper analyzes 166 German se...
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 1...
While different automated procedures for vowel formant prediction have recently been proposed, it is unclear how reliably these methods perform in the phonetic study of vowels in New Englishes and how such approaches could be applied to specific varieties. This paper compares different automatic methods for vowel formant prediction in New Englishes...
This article applies the Dynamic Model and the Extra- and Intra-territorial Forces (EIF) Model to Standard English in Trinidad based on the findings of a large-scale attitude study. The results suggest that, in the educational domain in Trinidad, a multidimensional norm orientation with coexisting standards that incorporates exo- and endonormative...
This volume brings together different varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. The different contributions examine these varieties of English against the backdrop of current World Englishes theorising, with a special focus on the Extra- and Intra-territorial Forces (EIF) Model (Busc...
This article applies the Dynamic Model (Schneider 2007) and the Extra-and Intra-territorial Forces (EIF) Model (Buschfeld & Kautzsch 2017; Buschfeld et al. 2018) to Standard English in Trinidad based on the findings of a large-scale attitude study. The results suggest that, in the educational domain in Trinidad, a multidimensional norm orientation...
While forced alignment has become an essential part of data processing in phonetic research, state-of-the-art aligners are often exclusively tailor-made for majority dialects, such as American English(es). This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the reliability of popular pre-trained aligners in New Englishes – the nativized, post...
The retraction of /s/, particularly in /str/ clusters, toward [ʃ] has been investigated in British, Australian, and American English and shown to be conditioned phonetically and sociolinguistically. To date, however, no research exists on the retraction of /s/ in New Englishes, the nativized Englishes spoken in postcolonial territories like the Car...
Trinidadian English (TrinE) prosody is often popularly described as 'sing-song'. Previous studies indicate that distinctive intonational patterns might be partly responsible for its distinctive prosody. However , evidence on pitch range and dynamism is currently limited. We analyse pitch level, overall pitch range, and pitch dynamism in TrinE based...
In the anglophone Caribbean, tendencies of endonormative reorientation have been observed in the development of local standards of English. Situated in the school context, this study adds a language attitude perspective on the question of whether and to what extent an endonormative standard of English is emerging in the island of Trinidad. In an ac...
"Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality – Models, Varieties, Approaches” from 8th February – 10th February, 2019 in Münster, Germany.
Contact and information
email: plur2019@uni-muenster.de
website: https://plur2019.wordpress.com/
Conference Program Plur 2019 - International Conference on Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality- Models, Varieties, Approaches
This paper discusses the relevance of learning through research for the teaching of English linguistics at German universities by drawing on theoretical considerations and an exemplary research-based teaching project at the intersection of (applied) linguistics and TEFL. The paper argues that teaching and research can both profit from research-base...