Andreas Weilinghoff

• Scottish English

• Sociophonetics

• Phonetics and Phonology

• Automatic Speech Recognition

• Forced Alignment

• World Englishes

Current projects

• PhD project on Aitken's Law
   
• ASR transcription automization
   
• Politics and Phonetics

Articles in edited volumes:

• Fc. "The Scottish Vowel Length Rule and the pluricentricity/pluriareality debate." In Philipp Meer & Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• FORTHCOMING. Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023): 'Vowel duration in contemporary Scottish Standard English'. UKLVC14 (United Kingdom Language Variation and Change), The University of Edinburgh, June 26-28, 2023.

• FORTHCOMING. Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023): 'The past, present and possible future of phonetic research'. Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland, March 02, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'Aitken's Law: Investigating vowel duration in the 21st century'. Department for Language, Literature and Culture, George McGovern Foyer, October 26, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'Investigating vowel duration in the 21st century: Aitken’s Law in naturally spoken Scottish Standard English'. NWAV50 Conference, Stanford University, USA, October 14, 2022.

• Buschfeld, Sarah; Leuckert, Sven; Weilinghoff, Andreas; Weihs, Claus (2022): 'How 'real' is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the 'new normal' in Corpus Linguistics'. ICAME43 Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, July 27-30, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'English in Scotland'.  Institute of English and American Studies, TU Dresden, Germany, June 29, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'Introduction to Sociophonetics'.  Institute of English and American Studies, TU Dresden, Germany, June 28, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Accelerating transcription work with ASR technology and Python scripting'.  English Department, University of Münster, Germany, November 15, 2021 .

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Politics and phonetics: Assessing the influence of party membership on pronunciation among Scottish politicians'. FRLSU2021, LMU Munich, Germany, October 30, 2021 .

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Politics and phonetics: Assessing the influence of party membership on rhotic sounds among Scottish politicians'. NWAV49, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, October 20, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'AI and Linguistics: Using ASR technology for transcription work'. GULP (Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 30, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Pushing transcription work to the next level – Using ASR and LaBB-CAT for linguistic studies'. ICAME42 Conference, TU Dortmund University, Germany, August 18-21, 2021. You can find all resources of my talk (slides, test file, scripts) here.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Seeking patterns in language: Using ASR technology for linguistic studies'. Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC), University of Trier, Germany, May 14, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Using and evaluating conditional inference tree modeling for linguistic studies in R'. R User Group and Brown Bag Lunch Series, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 27/01/2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2020): ‘Aitken’s Law Revised: Vowel Length in 21st Century Scotland’. ICAME41 Conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany 20/05/2020.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2020): ‘Aitken’s Law Revised: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in 21st Century Scotland’. GULP (Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 02/04/2020.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2019): ‘Aitken's Law Revised: A large-scale investigation into the Scottish Vowel Length Rule’. Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality - Models, Varieties, Approaches, University of Münster, Germany, 10/02/2019.

• John Sinclair Bursary for best paper by an early career researcher at ICAME41 conference (Heidelberg, Germany).
   
• Part of the organizing team of ICAME42
   
• Member of the RuhR Rstats group
   
• Member of the Curriculum 4.0 team
   
• Member of the doctoral committee at the Department of Cultural Studies