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Philipp Meer
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Postdoc in English linguistics. Uni Münster, Germany. World Englishes, sociolingusitics & sociophonetics, acoustic phonetics, language attitudes, corpus linguistics, and applied linguistics.

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Next up is Philipp Meer from the neighboring University City of Münster, speaking on behalf of Robert Fuchs, Karoline Wirbatz, and Lena Hertze, about fascinating ongoing work on "The representation of Global Englishes in textbooks in Germany: Focus on accents […]

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Philipp presenting a slide showing an evaluation of Blue Line 6 Green Line 6 Pronunciation (N speakers) CanE speakers only in the unit on Canada BrE/AmE speakers appear throughout the book One German speaker is a real teacher from Castrop-Rauxel, who appears in explanatory videos 1 BrE, 1 AmE track announcer
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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New co-authored article: Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students 🙂

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Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students | English Today | Cambridge Core
Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students
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June 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Samantha Jackson, Miriam Schmalz , and I contributed a chapter on Trinidad and Tobago to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 😊

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Trinidad and Tobago, English and Creoles in
The 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...
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April 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Ryan Durgasingh and I contributed a chapter to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes 🙂

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Caribbean Creoles and Englishes: Sociophonetic and Morphosyntactic Variation
This 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....
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April 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I was recently interviewed by a journalist (taz - die Tageszeitung) about accent prejudice. The article is now available online 🙂

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Akzente und Rassismus: Sexy, kompetent oder ungebildet
Welches Vorurteil Menschen über einen haben, hängt oft davon ab, ob man akzentfrei spricht. Und davon, woher der Akzent stammt.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Estou 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:

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Prepositions in Learner Usage (BRA)
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April 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I have a new private website. Feel free to check it out :)

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Dr. Philipp Meer
Dr. Philipp Meer Postdoctoral researcher University of Münster, Germany
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March 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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New 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!
Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
This 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...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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🙌 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...
Call for Applications: DAAD Scholarships
Promotionskolleg Sprachwissenschaft
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January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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🤩 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 🙂

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Pluricentricity and Pluriareality
This 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...
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January 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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And another joint paper with Ronald Francis and Robert Fuchs on "Lexical stress perception among Trinidadian English listeners" 🇹🇹👂
doi.org/10.21437/Spe...
ISCA Archive
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July 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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New co-authored paper on speech rhythm (and other prosodic aspects) of Brazilian Learner English 🇧🇷 - together with Leônidas Silva Jr 🙂

doi.org/10.21437/Spe...
ISCA Archive
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July 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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New 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...
Rethinking 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
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December 1, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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New 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...
13 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.
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November 21, 2023 at 11:08 AM