Roland Kehrein

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Philipps University of Marburg

Any researcher attempting to capture and comprehend emotions scientifically is confronted with the fact that emotions are highly abstract concepts; as a result the semantic analysis of emotions but also the description of their experience and their expression is highly problematic. Historically, in the area of emotion research two prominent approac...

In the study presented in this paper the use of a specific linguistic non-standard feature of German by 100 speakers representing three generations was analysed. The speakers originate from 25 different locations within the Middle Franconian dialect formation covering the middle-western parts of Germany. The feature analysed is the realisation of t...

The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the 'dialect-standard' landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech communities with different (geo)political and sociol...

The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech communities with different (geo)political and sociol...

This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of langua...

This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of langua...

This chapter offers an overview of the different ways in which languages, speech varieties or single linguistic variants have been represented on maps, i.e., with reference to geographic space. It discusses historical aspects of language mapping, which initially referred to the mapping of languages (resulting in “language maps”) and further develop...

One of the problems in prosody research still unresolved is identifying the segmental correlates of prosodic units covering more than one syllable. The largest of these are generally named tone-groups or intonation-groups. Although many researchers have worked with such units in the past, exact criteria for their definition are still missing. Hence...

Die Regionalsprachenforschung des Deutschen hat seit der Jahrtausendwende einen kaum für möglich gehaltenen Aufschwung erlebt. Die Forschungsaktivitäten sind als Reaktion auf den im 20. Jahrhundert stark beschleunigten Verlauf der sprachdynamischen Prozesse im Varietätenkontakt sowie im Standard-Dialekt-Gefüge verstehbar. In dem Band stellen sich...

One of the most significant features in forensic phonetics used to identify a speaker is his or her so-called regional accent. In a speaker profiling task, German experts for voice comparison were evaluated concerning their performance and their methodological approach in accent identification. As a result, the experts as a group performed well; on...

Introduction - A Short History of Linguistic Atlases1Applying Linguistic Atlases to the Study of Language or Dialect ChangePreliminary Results of Analyses within the Framework of the Digitaler Wenker-Atlas (DiWA) and Theoretical AdvancesProspects: From Linguistic Atlases to Geolinguistic Information SystemsReferences

The Handbook of Language Mapping aims to explore the core methodological and theoretical approaches of linguistic cartography. In both empirical and theoretical linguistics, the spatial variation of language is of increasing interest and the visualization of language in space is therefore also of growing significance. It is the precondition for cor...

How "High German" or "dialectal" do linguistically naive hearers judge comparable speech samples from a defined group of speakers to be? This article describes a study in which the dialectality of speech samples from the sixteen most important dialect formations (according to Wiesinger 1983) reading aloud was assessed in a total of eight auditory t...

Am Beispiel der Kleinregion um Waldshut-Tiengen im Hochalemannischen beschäftigt sich der Beitrag mit vertikalen sprachdynamischen Prozessen zwischen dem "alten" Dialekt und der neuhochdeutschen Standardsprache. Mit den Methoden "phonetische Abstandsmessung" (sog. Dialektalitätsmessung) und "Variablenanalyse" kann empirisch nachgewiesen werden, wel...

Within the context of investigations of cognitive spatial models, the study analyzes the effect of varying the informational structure of linguistic survey instruments. A group of informants was asked to draw German language areas on different types of geographic maps. First, in a quantitative approach we show how the specific informational structu...

This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian. The studies concern variation in or across dialects or dialect groups, in standard varieties or in emerging regional varieties of the standard. Several studies investigate a speci...

Prosodic variation in oral communication can occasion a shift in how a speaker's feelings and emotions are interpreted, a finding that is both commonsense and well established within the scientific community. However, neither psychologists nor researchers in linguistic and communication sciences have yet achieved clarity concerning the exact relati...