Prof. Dr Jonas Grünke

Since April 2025
Professor of Multilingualism (W1) at the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg and Head of the Forum for Multilingualism and Regionality (FoMuR)
Member of the Forum for Languages of Origin

October 2024 to March 2025
Acting Professor of ‘Romance Studies with a focus on Linguistics’ at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU) in Landau

July 2022
PhD (summa cum laude) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Thesis title: ‘Intonation in language contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia’.

2022–2024
Research Fellow on the DFG project ‘Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation’. (Project number 491553503, DFG Gepris, project website)

2015–2024
Research assistant to Prof. Dr Christoph Gabriel (Department of Romance Languages, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz).

2014–2015
MA in ‘Romance Linguistics’, University of Hamburg.
Title of Master’s thesis: ‘Towards target-language pronunciation – aspects of segmental phonology among German-speaking learners of Spanish.’

2012–2015
Student assistant to Prof. Dr Christoph Gabriel (Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg).

2012–2015
Tutor for the seminar ‘Introduction to the Linguistics of the Romance Languages’ at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg.

2010–2014
BA in ‘Spanish’, with a minor in ‘French’, University of Hamburg.
Title of the Bachelor’s thesis: ‘Word order and information structure in Spanish as a foreign language: learners whose native languages are Italian and Portuguese.’

• Phonetics and phonology, segmental and suprasegmental (Spanish, French, Catalan, Romansh)
• Syntax, synchronic and diachronic (information structure, clitics, post-verbal subjects)
• Second language acquisition (particularly L3 acquisition, acquisition of phonology and syntax)
• Multilingualism (societal and individual, language dominance, languages of origin)
• Variety linguistics and dialectology
• Linguae Minores (Judeo-Spanish, Grisons Romansh, Friulian, Occitan)
• Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Bulgarian) and Nordic languages (Swedish, Danish), Modern and Ancient Greek

Monographs

Grünke, Jonas (2024): Intonation in Language Contact. The Case of Spanish in Catalonia (external link, opens in a new window) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (external link, opens in a new window), 286]. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Grünke, Jonas (2022): Intonation in language contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia (external link, opens in a new window). PhD thesis, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Edited volumes

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Thiele, Sylvia (eds.) (2019): Romance Languages in All Their Diversity: Bridging the Gap between Linguistic Theory and Foreign Language Teaching / The Multifaceted Structures of Romance Languages: Bridging the Gap between Linguistic Theories and Foreign Language Teaching (Romance Languages and Their Didactics). Stuttgart: ibidem.

Grünke, Jonas / Pešková, Andrea / Gabriel, Christoph (eds.) (2024): Spanish as a second and third language: approaching the linguistics-didactics interface. Berlin: Frank & Timme.

Journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings

In press / accepted / submitted

Grünke, Jonas / Gabriel, Christoph / Andreeva, Bistra / Sabev, Mitko (accepted). Phonetic accommodation and domestic migration. Vowel raising and palatalisation in the Judeo-Spanish community of Bulgaria. (external link, opens in a new window) Critical Multilingualism Studies.

Grünke, Jonas / Gabriel, Christoph / Schlaak, Claudia (in press):“r in Spanish as a foreign language. A comparison of monolingual German and bilingual German-Turkish learners.” In: Pustka, Elissa / Remberger, Eva-Maria / Sánchez-Miret, Fernando (eds.): R in Romance. System, variation and change. Leiden: Brill.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (submitted): “Learning Romance languages in the context of heritage bilingualism.” In: Pustka, Elissa / Reimann, Daniel (eds.): Manual of Pedagogical Linguistics of Romance (external link, opens in a new window). Berlin: DeGruyter.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (accepted): “Language contact and information structure.” In: Steffen, Joachim et al. (eds.): Contact varieties of Spanish and Spanish-lexified contact varieties (HSK) (external link, opens in a new window). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

Grünke, Jonas / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Sabev, Mitko (accepted). Information structure and unstressed vowel reduction in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian. In Filipponio, Lorenzo / Garassino, Davide / Dipino, Dalila (eds). Exploring the relation between duration and length across languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2026

Gessinger, Iona / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2026): Question intonation in bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish. (external link, opens in a new window) In: Kuang, Jianjing / Liberman, Mark (eds):Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2026. Philadelphia : University of Philadelphia, 397–401. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2026-80

Grünke, Jonas / Gabriel, Christoph / Fischer, Susann / Vega Vilanova, Jorge (2026): The impact of language contact on focus realisation in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish (external link, opens in a new window). Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics. 12(2)/8, 1–29.

Sabev, Mitko / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2026): Vocative Intonation in the Context of Language Contact between Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian (external link, opens in a new window), BULGARIAN LANGUAGE, SUPPLEMENT 73, 233–255. doi: 10.47810/BL.73.26.PR.14

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2026): Fostering the learning of L3 French and Spanish phonology in heritage bilinguals: state of the art and looking beyond (external link, opens in a new window). Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics. 12(2)/7, 1–32

2025

Grünke, Jonas / Gabriel, Christoph / Andreeva, Bistra / Săbev, Mitko (2025): What can stress placement tell us about (in)stability in language contact? The case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11 (7), 1–20.

Grünke, Jonas (2025): Review of “Guido Mensching / Frank Savelsberg (eds.): Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology”, Romanische Forschungen 137(2), 302–308.

Sabev, Mitko / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2025): Contrast maintenance in the Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish unstressed vowels of heritage bilinguals. (external link, opens in a new window) Heritage Languages Journal 22, 1–32.

Sabev, Mitko / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2025): Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian vowels in contact: the effect of word stress across speaking styles. Papers of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (external link, opens in a new window) 38, 229–266.

2024

Fischer, Susann / Vega Vilanova, Jorge / Andreeva, Bistra / Avgustinova, Tania / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Klüh, Diana / Săbev, Mitko (2024): Patterns and interfaces in language contact. The case of Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria. Linguistische Berichte 280, 409–438.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / López Pereyra, Licia / Schlaak, Claudia (2024): “Acquiring Spanish voiceless stops in a multilingual setting: an intervention study with German-Turkish bilinguals”. In: Grünke, Jonas / Pešková, Andrea / Gabriel, Christoph (eds.): Spanish as a second and third language: approaching the linguistics-didactics interface. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 207–235.

Gerards, David / Grünke, Jonas (2024): “‘Using what’s available’: on the usability of digital Romansh media from the Grisons in linguistic research.” In: Hesselbach, Robert / Meisnitzer, Benjamin (eds): Romance regional or minority languages in the age of digital humanities (external link, opens in a new window) (KiT 10).

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (2024). Pronunciation support for German-Turkish bilingual and German monolingual learners of Spanish. Hispanorama (external link, opens in a new window) 183, 65–69.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Quintana, Aldina (2024): “Vocalic alternations in Istanbul Judeo-Spanish. A pilot study on semi-spontaneous speech data.” In: Minervini, Laura / Savelsberg, Frank (eds.): New perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the linguistic history of the Sephardic Jews (external link, opens in a new window). Leiden: Brill, 256–281.

2023

Grünke, Jonas / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Sabev, Mitko (2023):“Vocative intonation in language contact: the case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” (external link, opens in a new window)In: Languages 8 (4), 284 (= Face, Timothy / Armstrong, Meghan (eds.): Prosody in shared linguistic spaces of the Spanish-speaking world (external link, opens in a new window)).

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (2023): Rhotics in Spanish as a foreign language: An intervention study with German–Turkish bilinguals. (external link, opens in a new window) Strani jezici. / Foreign Languages. A Journal of Applied Linguistics 52 (1), 9–35.

Grünke, Jonas / Gerards, David (2023): “Digital media as a linguistic corpus? Predicative adjectives and the affricates /tɕ/ and /tʃ/ in Vallader.” In: Grünert, Mathias / Valär, Rico (eds.): Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha (AnSR), vol. 134. Chur: Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun, 383–396.

Grünke, Jonas / Săbev, Mitko / Gabriel, Christoph / Andreeva, Bistra (2023):“Vowel reduction in spontaneous Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish (external link, opens in a new window).” In: Skarnitzl, Radek / Violín, Jan (eds.). Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (external link, opens in a new window) Prague: Guarant International, 2844–2848.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (2022): “Using digital tools to foster the acquisition of L3 French prosody in an autonomous learning process. An intervention study with German-Turkish learners.” In: Eibensteiner, Lukas / Kropp, Amina / Müller-Lancé, Johannes / Schlaak, Claudia (eds.): New Approaches to Teaching French. Linguistic Landscaping and Multilingual Didactics in the Digital Age. (external link, opens in a new window) Tübingen: Narr, 75–100.

Săbev, Mitko / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2023):“Bulgarian unstressed vowel reduction: received views vs corpus findings (external link, opens in a new window).” In: Harte, Naomi / Carson-Berndsen, Julie / Jones, Gareth (eds.). Proceedings of Interspeech 2023 (external link, opens in a new window). Dublin, Ireland, 2603–2607.

2022

Grünke, Jonas / Gabriel, Christoph (2022):“Acquiring French intonation against the backdrop of heritage bilingualism: The case of German-Turkish learners.” (external link, opens in a new window)In: Languages 7(1), 68.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Karsten, Nils (2022): “Production and perception of L3 French prosody: Approaching German-Turkish heritage bilingualism.” In: Brandt, Hanne / Krause, Marion / Usanova, Irina (eds.): Language Development in Diverse Settings. Interdisciplinary findings from the project “Multilingualism Development over Time” (MEZ). (external link, opens in a new window) Berlin: Springer, 333–358.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2022): “Unmarked use of marked syntactic structures: Possessives and fronting of non-subject XPs in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” In: Garassino, Davide / Jacob, Daniel (eds.): When data challenges theory. Non-prototypical, unexpected and paradoxical evidence in the field of information structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 240–270.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (2022): “Does Turkish, as a first language, support the acquisition of French prosody? A pilot study on support using digital pronunciation tools.” In: Schöpp, Frank / Willems, Aline (eds.): Teaching Romance Languages and Inclusion: Reconstruction or Renewal? (external link, opens in a new window) Stuttgart: ibidem, 29–62.

2021

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas ( 2021): “Intonation in French as a third language among German-Turkish bilingual learners: production and perception.” In: Pustka, Elissa (ed.): The Pronunciation of French as a Foreign Language: Linguistic and Didactic Perspectives. Tübingen : Narr, 47–71.

Andreeva, Bistra / Dimitrova, Snezhina / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2021). “Intonational convergence in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech.” In: Teixeira Kalkhoff, Alexander / Selig, Maria / Mooshammer, Christine (eds.): Prosody and conceptual variation. Situational conditions of communication, degree of communicational planning, and activity types as parameters for prosodic design. Frankfurt: Lang, 171–190.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Duran Eppler, Eva (2021): “Between language preservation and contact-induced change: The realisation of the schwa article among Viennese emigrants in London.” In: Földes, Csaba (ed.): Contact Varieties of German Abroad (external link, opens in a new window) (Contributions to Intercultural German Studies 14). Tübingen: Narr, 145–161.

2020

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (2020): “Positive transfer from Turkish to French? Materials for individual support in pronunciation acquisition.” In: proDaZ. German as a Second Language in All Subjects (external link, opens in a new window), 1–27.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Kireva, Elena (2020):“Portuguese remnants in the Spanish of Olivenza (Extremadura): Exploring vowel raising, global speech rhythm, and intonation.” (external link, opens in a new window)In: Rao, Rajiv (ed.): Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain (external link, opens in a new window) (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 28). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 421–450.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas / Schlaak, Claudia (2020): “Self-directed digital learning: Materials to support the pronunciation of German-Turkish learners of French.” In: Französisch heute (external link, opens in a new window) 51 (3), 32–37. [The accompanying learning materials can be downloaded here (external link, opens in a new window).]

Grünke, Jonas (2020): “Dominance and linguistic uses among students in Gerona” In: Gabriel, Christoph / Pešková, Andrea / Selig, Meisenburg (eds.): Contact, variation and change. Studies in honour of Trudel Meisenburg (external link, opens in a new window) (Studienreihe Romania 35). Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 461–478.

2019

Grünke, Jonas (2019): “Phonological knowledge and spirantisation in university-level Spanish acquisition: A study of different levels of proficiency.” In: Zeitschrift für Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik, 13 (2), 37–58.

Andreeva, Bistra / Dimitrova, Snezhina / Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2019):“The intonation of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech.” (external link, opens in a new window)In: Calhoun, Sasha / Escudero, Paola / Tabain, Marija / Warren, Paul (eds.). Proceedings of the^19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 3827–3841.

2018

Dimitrova, Snezhina / Andreeva, Bistra / Gabriel , Christoph / Grünke, Jonas ( 2018):“Speaker age effects on prosodic patterns in Bulgarian.” (external link, opens in a new window)In: Demenko, Grażyna / Bachan, Jolanta / Śledziński, Daniel (eds.): Proceedings of the^9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, Poznań, 709–713.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2018): “Is there a standard pronunciation of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish? Evidence from /e/-to-[i] raising in read and spontaneous speech.” In: Muhr, Rudolf / Meisnitzer, Benjamin (eds.): The pluricentricity of Romance Languages: French, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. Frankfurt: Lang, 367–382.

Gabriel, Christoph / Grünke, Jonas (2018):“Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analysing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages.” (external link, opens in a new window)In: García García, Marco / Uth, Melanie (eds.): Focus realisation in Romance and beyond (Studies in Language Companion Series 201). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 357–386.

2017

Andreeva, Bistra / Dimitrova, Snezhina / Gabriel, Christoph / Gazdik, Anna / Grünke, Jonas ( 2017): “Intonation and convergence: Evidence from Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” In: Tarpomanova, Ekaterina / Aleksova, Krasimira (eds.): Domination and adaptation. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Faculty of Slavic Studies. Vol. II: Linguistics (external link, opens in a new window). Sofia: University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 169–177.

“Muted Multilingualism: Heritage languages and access to phonological learning in foreign language education.” Invited talk, German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium 2026, Jerusalem, 8–11 November 2026.

“Focus marking at the prosody–syntax interface: The case of Bulgarian Jewish Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva, Snezhina Dimitrova and Christoph Gabriel. P&P22. 22nd Annual Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in the German-speaking World. (external link, opens in a new window) Jena, 1–2 October 2026.

“Non-canonical syntax in French: Indirect interrogative sentences in Switzerland.” Linguistics Colloquium, University of Regensburg, 1 July 2026.

“Question intonation in bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish.” With Iona Gessinger, Bistra Andreeva and Christoph Gabriel.Speech Prosody 2026 (external link, opens in a new window), Philadelphia, 26–29 May 2026.

“Non-canonical indirect interrogatives in French: Evidence from Swiss French.” Gallo-Romance Advances in Morphology & Syntax (GRAMS (external link, opens in a new window)), Dublin, 25 May 2026.

“Language contact and language influence in the Romance languages.” Invited keynote lecture, LIMES 2026 (external link, opens in a new window), Trier, 12 March 2026.

“Language influence from the surrounding language on the minority language: Case studies on Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria.” Romanistik meets Slavistik & Germanistik, University of Regensburg, 12 December 2025.

“Question intonation in bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish.” With Iona Gessinger, Bistra Andreeva and Christoph Gabriel. 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference (external link, opens in a new window), Klagenfurt, 5–8 December 2025.

“Intermediate phrasing in L3 Spanish: a comparison between monolingual German and bilingual German-Turkish learners.” With Christoph Gabriel, Claudia Schlaak and Licia López Pereyra. 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference (external link, opens in a new window), Klagenfurt, 5–8 December 2025.

“Clitic Raising in Vallader: Initial Observations on an Unexplored Phenomenon”. With David Paul Gerards (Mainz). Colloquium Retoromanstich 2025, Görz/Gorizia, 20–22 November 2025.

“Question Intonation in Bilingual Speakers of Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish.” With Iona Gessinger, Bistra Andreeva and Christph Gabriel. Phonetic Colloquium, Saarland University. Saarbrücken, 5 November 2025.

“Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Language and Trauma: An introduction to the topic of the workshop and the activities at the University of Regensburg”. Ukrainian-Bavarian Workshop on Multilingualism|Mehrsprachigkeit|Багатомовність. Regensburg, 28–29 October 2025.

“Intonation in forms of address in the context of language contact between Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian.” With Mitko Sabev, Bistra Andreeva and Christoph Gabriel. Twelfth “Bulgarian Grammar” Forum [12th ‘Bulgarian Grammar’ Forum] (external link, opens in a new window), Institute of the Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 20 October 2025.

"Native languages as a resource for foreign language learning in schools: How can positive transfer be achieved?". Lecture series “Multilingualism”, Regensburg, 20 October 2025.

“Question intonation in bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish.” With Iona Gessinger, Bistra Andreeva and Christoph Gabriel. P&P21. 21st Annual Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in German-speaking Countries. (external link, opens in a new window) Leipzig, 5–8 October 2025.

“Inclusion, participation and sustainable development: On the potential of multilingualism in French and Spanish teaching.” With Claudia Schlaak (Kassel), Licia López Pereyra (Mainz) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). 31st Congress on Foreign Language Teaching of the German Society for Foreign Language Research. (external link, opens in a new window) Kassel, 25–27 September 2025.

“When intonation meets intonation: Evidence from Catalan–Spanish bilingualism and other contact settings”. Invited guest lecture, Phonology Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Goethe University Frankfurt, 16 July 2025.

“Multilingualism in the acquisition of French and Spanish: Where does phonological transfer occur among German-Turkish learners?”. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Regensburg, 2 July 2025.

“Cluster analysis of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish calling contours.” With Mitko Sabev (Saarbrücken), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2025) (external link, opens in a new window). Palma, 25 June 2025.

“Prosodic boundaries in L3 Spanish: comparing monolingually raised German and bilingual German-Turkish learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Licia López Pereyra (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (Kassel). Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Special session “First and second language speech learning: Tackling prosody”, Olomouc, 7 June 2025.

“Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish calling contours: a cluster analysis.” With Mitko Sabev (Saarbrücken), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025). (external link, opens in a new window) Herrsching, 15–18 May 2025.

“Phonetic adaptation and internal migration: vowel raising and palatalisation in the Judeo-Spanish community of Bulgaria”. With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Mitko Sabev (Saarbrücken). XXIV Hispanistentag / XXIV Congress of the German Association of Hispanists (external link, opens in a new window), Section 3-Ling“Urban contact dialects in the Spanish-speaking world (external link, opens in a new window)”. Hamburg, 11–15 March 2025.

“Prosodic boundaries in L3 Spanish: comparing monolingually raised German and bilingual German-Turkish learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Licia López Pereyra (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (Kassel). DGfS Annual Meeting 2025 (external link, opens in a new window), Working Group 13 “Heritage speakers learning languages: Looking beyond the societal language”, Mainz, 4–7 March 2025.

“Where do Romanian and Ukrainian offer opportunities for transfer for learners of French and Spanish? A contrastive language comparison” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Miro – Languages of Migration in Romance School Language Teaching (external link, opens in a new window), Vienna, 19–22 February 2025.

“Multilingualism due to background in French and Spanish teaching: Empirical findings and didactic resources to support German-Turkish learners in acquiring pronunciation”. With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Licia López Pereyra (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (Kassel). Miro – Languages of Migration in Romance School Language Teaching (external link, opens in a new window), Vienna, 19–22 February 2025.

“How prestige and attitudes determine linguistic variation: vowel reduction and palatalisation in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish”. With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Mitko Sabev (Saarbrücken). LIII SEL Symposium (external link, opens in a new window), Salamanca, 20–23 January 2025.

“What can stress placement tell us about (in)stability in language contact? The case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Mitko Sabev (Saarbrücken). Going Romance 2024 (external link, opens in a new window), Braga, 4–6 December 2024.

“How does unstressed vowel reduction interact with information structure? Insights from Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), and Mitko Săbev (Saarbrücken). P&P20. 20th Annual Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in the German-speaking World. (external link, opens in a new window) Halle, 2 October 2024.

“Migration and language contact in the Romance languages.” Lecture and practical workshop. DRV Summer School “Intra-Romance Migration and Multilingualism” (external link, opens in a new window), San Martin de Tor, Val Badia, 9 September 2024.

“The impact of language contact: stress placement in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), and Mitko Sabev (Saarbrücken). Workshop on Judeo-Spanish (external link, opens in a new window), Mainz, 12–13 July 2024.

“Attitudinal meaning in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish calling contours.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Mitko Săbev (Saarbrücken). DGfS Annual Meeting 2024 (external link, opens in a new window), Working Group 02 “Attitudinal meaning in prosody”, Bochum, 28 February–1 March 2024.

“Vocative intonation in language contact: The case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Mitko Săbev (Saarbrücken). Phonetics Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Saarland University. Saarbrücken, 1 February 2024.

“Focus marking in language contact: the case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Jorge Vega Vilanova (Hamburg), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Susann Fischer (Hamburg). Romance grammars, context and contact (RGCC 2) (external link, opens in a new window). Birmingham (UK), 8–10 January 2024.

“Call contours in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” Linguistics Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 18 December 2023.

“Call contours in language contact: The case of Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Mitko Săbev (Oxford/Saarbrücken). 47th Austrian Linguistics Conference (external link, opens in a new window), Graz, 9 December 2023.

“The impact of language contact on the realisation of focus in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” Jorge Vega Vilanova (Hamburg), with Jonas Grünke (Mainz) and Susann Fischer (Hamburg). Going Romance 2023 (external link, opens in a new window), Nijmegen (NL), 30 November 2023.

“Multilingualism as the key to a fairer world: harnessing the potential of multilingualism based on background and previously learnt foreign languages.” With Claudia Schlaak (Kassel) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). School–University–Seminar Forum, University of Stuttgart, 13 November 2023.

“Acquiring Romance phonology against the backdrop of heritage bilingualism”, invited keynote lecture, International PhD Conference on Multilingual Language Acquisition (external link, opens in a new window), Konstanz, 12–13 October 2023.

“Linguistic variation and standardisation tendencies in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz). XXXVIII Romanistik Conference “Presence and Virtuality” (external link, opens in a new window), Section 1 “Linguistic Variation in the Small Romance Languages between Real and Virtual Spaces”, Leipzig, 24–27 September 2023.

“Bulgarian unstressed vowel reduction: received views vs corpus findings.” With Mitko Săbev (Oxford/Saarbrücken), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Interspeech 2023 (external link, opens in a new window), Dublin, 20–24 August 2023.

“Vowel reduction in spontaneous Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz), Mitko Săbev (Oxford/Saarbrücken) and Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023) (external link, opens in a new window), Prague, 7–10 August 2023.

“Spectral and durational properties of Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian vowels.” With Mitko Săbev (Oxford/Saarbrücken), Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz), Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2023 (external link, opens in a new window), Nijmegen, 4 June 2023.

“Potential-oriented foreign-language teaching: promoting individual competences of plurilingual learners.” With Claudia Schlaak (external link, opens in a new window) (Kassel) and Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz). 10th International EDiLiC Conference: From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Transitions, Continuity, and Disruptions in Plurilingual Education. (external link, opens in a new window) Copenhagen (Denmark), 28–30 June 2023.

“Information structure, unstressed vowel reduction, and duration in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz) and Mitko Săbev (Oxford/Saarbrücken). Invited talk, International Workshop “Exploring the relation between duration and length across languages: Typology, variation, and contact”, Berlin, 23–24 June 2023.

“The intonation of spoken Spanish in Catalonia”, International Congress of Experimental Phonetics (external link, opens in a new window), Vigo, 21–23 June 2023.

Chair of Section 18“Spanish as a second and third language at the interface between linguistics and second language research” (external link, opens in a new window)/ “El español como segunda y tercera lengua en la interfaz entre lingüística y investigación didáctica”. With Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz) and Andrea Pešková (external link, opens in a new window) (Vienna), 23rd German Conference of Hispanists (external link, opens in a new window), Graz (Austria), 22–25 February 2023.

“Multilingualism due to background in Spanish teaching: Supporting German-Turkish learners in acquiring pronunciation.” With Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (external link, opens in a new window) (Kassel). 23rd German Conference of Hispanists (external link, opens in a new window), Graz (Austria), 23 February 2023.

Chair of Section 19“French as a Second and Foreign Language: Synergies between Linguistics and Foreign Language Research” (external link, opens in a new window)/ “Le français langue seconde et étrangère : Synergies entre la linguistique et la recherche sur les langues étrangères”. With Christoph Gabriel (external link, opens in a new window) (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (external link, opens in a new window) (Kassel), 13th Congress of the Association of Franco-Romance Scholars (external link, opens in a new window), Vienna (Austria), 21–24 September 2022.

“Acquiring Spanish rhotics against the backdrop of migration-induced multilingualism: the case of German-Turkish learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (Kassel). 12th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism (IAM L3) (external link, opens in a new window), Zagreb, 15–17 September 2022.

“On the influence of individual and societal multilingualism on intonation: a study of Spanish in Catalonia”. DRV Summer School “Multilingualism in Childhood and Adulthood in Romania”, Wuppertal, 6 September 2022

“Jewish Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Linguistic Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 20 June 2022.

“Digital media as a linguistic corpus? Predicative adjectives and the affricates /tɕ/ ~ /tʃ/ in Lower Engadine.” With David Paul Gerards (Leipzig). 8avel Colloqui retoromanistic, Curaglia/Val Medel, 8–11 June 2022.

“Patterns of language dominance in German-Turkish heritage bilingualism: the case of adolescent learners of French.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Humanities on the Move. International Conference 2020 (external link, opens in a new window), Panel: ‘Refugees, Heritage Languages, and Language Attrition’. University of Minho, Braga (Portugal), 27–29 April 2022.

“r in Spanish as a foreign language: a comparison of monolingual German and bilingual German-Turkish learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). New Sounds 2022 (external link, opens in a new window). Barcelona, 20–22 April 2022.

* “Global speech rhythm and intonation in French as a foreign language: Comparing bilingual Turkish-German and monolingual German learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Nils Karsten (Amsterdam). 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021. “Tone and intonation in a globalised, digital world.” (external link, opens in a new window) Sønderborg, 6–9 December 2021.

“Rhotics in Spanish as a foreign language: Comparing monolingual German and bilingual German-Turkish learners”. With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Claudia Schlaak (Kassel). R-atics 7 (external link, opens in a new window), Lausanne, 18–19 November 2021.

* “Patterns of language dominance in German-Turkish heritage bilingualism: the case of adolescent learners of French.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). 27th LIPP Symposium “Language and Migration” (external link, opens in a new window), Munich [online], 15–17 November 2021. Winner of the second poster prize! (external link, opens in a new window)

“Harnessing the potential of heritage multilingualism: synergies between linguistics and didactics in promoting pronunciation acquisition in the teaching of Romance foreign languages.” With Claudia Schlaak (Kassel) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). 9th Congress on Foreign Language Teaching of the German Society for Foreign Language Research (DGFF) (external link, opens in a new window). University of Duisburg-Essen, 22–24 September 2021.

“The intonation of total interrogatives in Girona in the context of bilingualism.” 12th Workshop on the Prosody of Catalan (external link, opens in a new window), Barcelona/Palma [online], 15 June 2021.

“Language contact and the intonation of yes/no questions in Catalan and Spanish: The effects of gender and language dominance.” Prosodic Variation: the Role of Past and Present Contact in Multilingual Societies (ProVar2021) (external link, opens in a new window), workshop at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2021 (external link, opens in a new window)), Barcelona [online], 21–23 June 2021.

* “Heritage bilingualism in the German educational system: the case of German-Turkish learners of French.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). LingCologne2021: Multilingualism. Conference on the myth of monolingualism (external link, opens in a new window). University of Cologne [online], 11 June 2021.

“Possessives and fronting of non-subject XPs in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech: A case of contact-induced morphosyntactic variation?”, Romance Grammars, Context, and Contact ( (external link, opens in a new window)RGCC 2021), Birmingham [online], 25 March 2021.

“Intonation in language contact: Effects of language dominance and gender on the realisation of decision questions in Catalan and Spanish.” XVIIth LIMES Conference 2021 (external link, opens in a new window), Jena [online], 25–27 March 2021.

“Getting rid of the German canonical trochee in L3 French intonation: comparing monolingually raised German and bilingual Turkish-German learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Nils Karsten (Amsterdam). 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) (external link, opens in a new window), Freiburg [online], 25 February 2021.

“Prosody in Spanish–Catalan language contact – What happens when everyone is bilingual but uses their languages very differently in everyday life?”, Research Colloquium, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg [online], 2 February 2021.

“Prosody in Spanish–Catalan language contact – What happens when everyone is bilingual but uses their languages very differently?”, Linguistic Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz [online], 18 January 2021

“Acquisition of French intonation in a multilingual context: opportunities for autonomous digital learning for German-Turkish pupils.” With Christoph Gabriel and Claudia Schlaak. 12th Congress of the Association of Franco-Romance Scholars, Section 20: “French teaching at the crossroads of different research disciplines: making ‘language’ visible through digital media”, Vienna [online], 25 September 2020.

“The ‘bilingual varieties’ of Spanish and Catalan.” 16th LIMES Conference 2020, Mannheim, 5–7 February 2020.

“Prosodic aspects of French as a Foreign Language (FLE) produced by German-Turkish learners: initial results from a task assessing the degree of foreign accent.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). FLORAL-(I)PFC 2019 Conference: French around the world (external link, opens in a new window), Paris, 5 December 2019.

“Pronunciation acquisition in schools against the backdrop of multilingualism due to background: the example of German-Turkish learners of French.” With Christoph Gabriel, 36th German Romance Studies Conference, Section 20 (external link, opens in a new window), Kassel, 1 October 2019.

“‘Make use of what’s there’: on the usability of digital Romansh media from the canton of Graubünden in linguistic research.” With David Paul Gerards, 36th German Romance Studies Conference, Section 16 (external link, opens in a new window), Kassel, 30 November 2019.

* “Vowel raising in Olivenza Spanish and Portuguese.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Nils Karsten (Amsterdam) and Arne Nagels (Mainz), P&P15 (external link, opens in a new window), Düsseldorf, 27 September 2019.

* “Global speech rhythm and intonation in French as a foreign language: Comparing bilingual Turkish-German and monolingual German learners.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Nils Karsten (Amsterdam), P&P15 (external link, opens in a new window), Düsseldorf, 26 September 2019.

“The intonation of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech.” With Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia), Bistra Adreeva (Saarbrücken) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), ^{19th International} Congress of Phonetic Sciences (external link, opens in a new window), Melbourne, 5–9 August 2019.

“Bilingualism, linguistic dominance and their influence on the intonation of spoken Castilian in Catalonia”, Summer School “Academic Spanish for German-speaking Hispanists”, Mainz, 29 July–2 August 2019.

“Global speech rhythm and intonation in L3 French: Comparing bilingual Turkish-German and monolingually raised German learners.” With Christoph Gabriel and Nils Karsten (Mainz). L3 Workshop, Konstanz, 7–8 June 2019.

“Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish – between archaism and contact-induced innovation”, invited guest lecture, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Osnabrück, 9 May 2019.

“Does Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish have a standard pronunciation? Evidence from /e/-to-[i] raising in different speech styles.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). XXII German Conference of Hispanists (external link, opens in a new window), Free University of Berlin, 29 March 2019.

“Non-canonical use of marked syntactic structures in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Workshop ‘When Data Challenges Theory: Non-Prototypical, Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in the Field of Information Structure (external link, opens in a new window)’. University of Freiburg, 15 February 2019.

“On the prosodic realisation of interrogative questions in the Spanish of Girona.” 15th LIMES Conference (external link, opens in a new window) 2019, Germersheim, 25–26 January 2019.

“Language dominance and attitudes to language among students from Girona.” Multilingualism – Identity – Authenticity (external link, opens in a new window), Augsburg, 15–16 November 2018.

“Austrian German in a multilingual context – a phonetic perspective on native and heritage German.” With Eva Duran Eppler (Roehampton University, London) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), DAAD Cambridge Hub Annual Conference (external link, opens in a new window): “German in multilingual contexts – Perspectives on native, non-native and heritage German”, Cambridge, 2–3 November 2018.

“Does language dominance influence intonation? A study of the Catalan spoken by young bilingual speakers from Girona.” 26th Catalan Studies Conference 2018 (external link, opens in a new window), Mainz, 19–22 September 2018.

“The realisation of the schwa article in Viennese German–English bilinguals: evidence for the heterogeneity of migrant communities.” With Eva Duran Eppler (Roehampton University, London) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics: Insights from Superdiversity, Complexity and Multimodality (external link, opens in a new window), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 6–8 September 2018.

* “On the intonation of Spanish among young bilingual speakers from Girona.” Phonetics and Phonology in the German-speaking World (P&P) 2018 (external link, opens in a new window), University of Vienna, 6–7 September 2018.

* “Speaker age effects on prosodic patterns in Bulgarian.” With Bistra Adreeva (Saarbrücken), Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Speech Prosody 2018 (external link, opens in a new window), Poznań, Poland, 15 June 2018.

“Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Catalan spoken by bilingual young people from Girona.” Catalan Syntax and its interfaces (external link, opens in a new window), Vienna, 5 May 2018.

“The realisation of the schwa article in Viennese German-English bilinguals: evidence for the heterogeneity of migrant communities.” With Eva Duran Eppler (Roehampton University, London) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). “German Abroad” 3: Contact Varieties of German Abroad (external link, opens in a new window). University of Erfurt, 9 March 2018. Programme (external link, opens in a new window).

“Effects of age on prosodic patterns in Bulgarian.” Bistra Adreeva (Saarbrücken), Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz), Phonetic Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Institute of Phonetics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 19 January 2018.

“The intonation of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish: Comparing read and spontaneous data.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Anna Gazdik (Mainz), XXXV German Romance Studies Conference (external link, opens in a new window), Zurich, 8–12 October 2017.

“Intonation and convergence: Evidence from Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken) and Christoph Gabriel (Mainz). Phonetic Colloquium (external link, opens in a new window), Institute of Phonetics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 19 July 2017.

“Intonational convergence in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Anna Gazdik (Mainz), ^5th World Conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties 2017 (external link, opens in a new window), Mainz, 14 July 2017. Please take a look at the workshop programme (external link, opens in a new window).

“Intonation and convergence: Evidence from Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Anna Gazdik (Mainz). Traditional biennial conference of the Faculty of Slavic Philology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (external link, opens in a new window), on the theme “Dominance and Adaptation” // Biennial Conference of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, entitled “Domination and Adaptation”, Sofia, 24–25 April 2017.

“Intonational convergence in a diaspora variety: The case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish.” With Bistra Andreeva (Saarbrücken), Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia), Christoph Gabriel (Mainz) and Anna Gazdik (Mainz), 21st German Conference of Hispanists (external link, opens in a new window), Munich, 30 March 2017.

“Towards target-language pronunciation – aspects of segmental phonology among German learners of Spanish.” DRV Summer School “Spoken Language in Romania: From Theory to Empiricism” (external link, opens in a new window), Vienna, 1 August 2016.

“Focus, Prosody, and Subject Positions in L3 Spanish: Analysing data from German learners with Italian and Portuguese as heritage languages.” With Christoph Gabriel (Hamburg). 34th German Conference of Romance Studies, Mannheim, 27 July 2015.

“Focus, Prosody, and Word Order in L3 Spanish: Analysing Data from German Learners with Italian and Portuguese as Heritage Languages.” 5th Master’s Conference “Romance Linguistics” /^{5th Annual}Hamburg Romance Linguistics Graduate Conference, Hamburg, 5 July 2014.

“Post-verbal subjects in L3 Spanish: Comparing monolingual German learners and learners with a Romance heritage language (Italian/Portuguese).” With Christoph Gabriel (Hamburg). Workshop “Focus Realisation”, Cologne, 30–31 January 2014.

In the summer term of 2026, I will be teaching the courses listed below. Further information can be found in the course catalogue (external link, opens in a new window).

Seminar: ‘European Minority Languages: Current Status and Future Prospects’ (Mondays, 12 noon–2 pm)

• A structured comparison of vitality, development/standardisation, language policy and language planning, as well as language contact

Seminar: “Languages of Migration in Bavaria” ( Tuesdays, 2–4 pm)

• Which languages of migration are present in post-migrant Bavaria?
• How do first-generation varieties differ from the languages of origin of subsequent generations in terms of language use, dominance relationships, identity functions and language change processes

Advanced seminar: “Project seminar ‘Dialects in Europe’ – a comparative survey” (Wednesdays, 10 am–12 noon)

• Comparative study of various European dialect landscapes (dialect areas, vitality, status, development)

If you are interested in learning a ‘smaller’ language such as Corsican, Occitan, Galician, Grison Romansh or Sorbian, or in examining one in your own research, please feel free to contact me!

At the University of Regensburg

Summer Semester 2026
Seminar: ‘European minority languages: current status and future prospects’
Seminar: “Languages of Migration in Bavaria”
Advanced Seminar: “Project Seminar ‘Dialects in Europe’ – A Comparative Survey”

Winter Semester 2025/2026

Seminar : “Hands-on Phonetics: Collecting, Analysing and Visualising Sound Data” (external link, opens in a new window)
Seminar/Practical “Judeo-Spanish: Structural and Language Course” (external link, opens in a new window)
Advanced Seminar: “Language Contact in Latin America: Linguistic Traces of Multilingualism and Migration – Multilingüismo en Hispanoamérica” (Languages of instruction: German/Spanish)

Summer Term 2025
Seminar:‘Multilingualism in Regensburg’ (external link, opens in a new window)
Advanced Seminar : “Phonetics and Phonology in Language Contact” (external link, opens in a new window)

At the RPTU Landau

Winter Semester 2024/2025
Lecture:‘Spoken French: New Developments in Europe and America’ (external link, opens in a new window)
Advanced seminar“The Morphosyntax of French Through Time: A Diachronic Approach” (external link, opens in a new window)(taught in French)
Phonetics seminar (language of instruction: French)
Seminar: Communication II (Language of instruction: French)
Linguistics Colloquium

At Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Summer Semester 2024
Advanced Seminar ‘Como dicen en mi pueblo: características del español rural’ (Language of instruction: Spanish)

Winter Semester 2023/2024
Advanced Seminar‘Syntactic variation in the Francophone world: non-French varieties’ (external link, opens in a new window)(Language of instruction: French)

Summer Semester 2023
Advanced seminar ‘The French language from a diachronic perspective: aspects of morphosyntax’ (Language of instruction: French)

Winter semester 2022/2023
Introductory Seminar 2 ‘Diachronic French’ (Language of instruction: French)

Summer semester 2022
Introductory Seminar 3: ‘Syntax of French’ (Language of instruction: French).

Winter semester 2021/2022
Introductory Seminar 3: ‘Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of French’ (Language of instruction: French)

Summer Semester 2021
Introductory Seminar 1: ‘Introduction to Spanish Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German; online course)

Winter semester 2020/2021
Introductory Seminar 1: “Introduction to French Linguistics” (Language of instruction: German; online course)

Summer Semester 2020
Introductory Seminar 1 ‘Introduction to French Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German; online course)

Winter Term 2019/2020
Lecture: ‘Introduction to Linguistics for Romance Language Students’ (Language of instruction: German)
Introductory Seminar 1: ‘Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German)

Summer Semester 2019
Introductory Seminar 2: ‘Diachronic French’ (Language of instruction: bilingual French–German)
Proseminar 3: ‘Sintaxis del español’ (Language of instruction: Spanish)

Winter Semester 2018/2019
Introductory Seminar 1: ‘Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German)
Proseminar 3: ‘Introduction to French Syntax’ (language of instruction: French)

Summer Semester 2018
Introductory Seminar 2: ‘Fonologia do português’ (taught in Portuguese and German)
Introductory Seminar 3 ‘Syntax of Spanish’ (Language of instruction: Spanish)

Winter Semester 2017/2018
Introductory Seminar 1 ‘Introduction to Spanish Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German)
Introductory Seminar 1 ‘Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics’ (language of instruction: German)
Proseminar 3 “French Phonology” (Language of instruction: French)

Summer Semester 2017
Introductory Seminar 1 ‘Introduction to French Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German)
Introductory Seminar 3 ‘Spanish Phonology’ (Language of instruction: Spanish)
Introductory Seminar 3 ‘Spanish Syntax’ (Language of instruction: Spanish)

Winter Semester 2016/2017
Introductory Seminar 1 ‘Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German)
Introductory Seminar 3 ‘Phonology: A Comparison of the Phonological Systems of Spanish and German’ (Language of instruction: Spanish)

Summer Semester 2016
Introductory Seminar 1 ‘Introduction to French Linguistics’ (Language of instruction: German)
Introductory Seminar 3 ‘French Phonology’ (Language of instruction: French)
Introductory Seminar 2 “The Phonology of Portuguese” (Language of instruction: Portuguese)
Research seminar on the introductory seminars in Romance linguistics (Language of instruction: German)

Winter Semester 2015/2016
Introductory Seminar 1 “Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics” (Language of instruction: German) Introductory Seminar 3 “La syntaxe du français” (Language of instruction: French)

Supervision of ongoing PhD programmes

Dorda, Chiara. Interrogative structures in Canadian French (working title). JGU Mainz.

Swe, Su Paing. The acquisition of French prosody by L1 Burmese speakers(working title). JGU Mainz (external).

Theses

2026

Kraus, Kim: Formant analysis of German rounded front-tongue vowels in reading and repetition by Serbian-speaking students of German: TTS in the context of pronunciation in German as a foreign language (second assessment, MA)

2025

Sutter, Julian: Realisation of final obstruents in French: An intervention study with German-speaking learners of French (Second review, M.Ed)

Mantik, Lea-Sophie: To what extent should pronunciation be addressed with pupils at the start of French as a foreign language? (Second opinion, M.Ed)

2024

Weißert, Senta: On the intonation of interrogative sentences in the Spanish of Menorca. (Second review, M.Ed)

Sothinathan, Priyanka: On the acquisition of French nasal vowels by German learners of French – difficulties and teaching methods. ( First review, B.Ed.)

2023

Tometzki, Nico: The use of dialectal features on social media: A phonetic and phonological study of Andalusian TikTok videos. (First review, B.Ed.)

Palm, Anton Andreas Markus: The role of indigenous languages in everyday language use in Cameroon, formerly under French administration. How does language policy influence the current use of indigenous languages in Cameroon? (Second review, M.Ed.)

2022

Körber, Eliane Christine: Multilingualism in French lessons: The case of Spanish-German bilingual learners. (First review, B.Ed.)

Purbs, Charoltte (Second-cycle thesis, M.Ed.). Subject pronouns in French and Kreyòl Ayisyen: A synchronic comparison.

Dierks, Lina Maria (Second review, M.Ed.). Réunion Creole vs. Standard French: A sociolinguistic study of the diglossic situation on Réunion.

Cruz Behler, Ana: The impact of language dominance in simultaneous first-language acquisition, using German-French bilingual children as an example. ( First review, B.Ed.)

Kelly, Fabian: Musical and linguistic prosody in French: an empirical study based on Rameau’s *Dardanus* and Poulenc’s *Les mamelles de Tirésias*. (Second review, B.Ed.)

2021

Galeano Cortes, Jessica Lorena: Can the Conversational Topic Trigger the Use of Spanglish? A Study of Hispanics in the United States. ( First review, B.Ed.)

Geßner, Julia: German as a Foreign Language in Spain: Phonoprosodic Transfer in Monolingual and Bilingual Learners. ( Second-opinion report, M.Ed.)

López Pereyra, Licia: The prosody of spoken Spanish in Devoto, Córdoba province. Is it Rioplatense intonation with a ‘Córdoba accent’? ( Second-round review, M.Ed.)

2020

Kurtz, Katharina Maria:On the pronunciation of nasal vowels and plosives in German-French bilingual children. A comparison of L1 and L2. ( Second opinion, M.Ed. / MEEF)

Obert, Melvin Simon: On the sociocultural status of Nissart in southern France today: A questionnaire-based study. (Second assessment, B.Ed.)

2019

Latocha, Johannes: On the development of the zero-subject parameter in French: an empirical study.(Second assessment, B.Ed.)

Hamidiar, Sahar: The Arabic influence on the Spanish language: a study of Arabisms. (Second assessment, B.Ed.)

2017

Lanskoy, Vanessa: Generic noun phrases among German learners of French. (Second assessment, B.A.)

2016

Kehl, Viktoria Friederike: Aspects of colloquial French: on the manifestation of the historically contingent feature of negation. ( Second-opinion assessment, B.Ed.)