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Journal articles 37

2026
Hedegard, H., A. Leemann, P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, D. Britain (2026). Dialect proximity and soft biometric inference from read speech. International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law.
2026
Leemann, A., S. Kistler, F. Tomaschek (2026). Beyond sociodemographics: attitudinal and personality predictors of lexical change. Languages 2026, 11(3), 61.
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2026
Netzwerk Regionale Sprache und Künstliche Intelligenz (2026): Regionale Sprache und Künstliche Intelligenz im Zeitalter der digitalen Transformation. Positionspapier zur Zukunft der Regionalsprachenforschung. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Online First.
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2025
Gräppi, C., C. Steiner, & A. Leemann (2025). Articulation of the STRUT Vowel in L2 English Speakers of Swiss German. Linguistik Online.
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2024
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, J. Culpeper, L. Josi (2024). Saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland. Journal of Pragmatics, 234, 78-98.
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2024
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2024). Effects of mobility on dialect change: Introducing the Linguistic Mobility Index. PLOS ONE.
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2024
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, N. Von Allmen, A. Leemann (2024). What drives non-linguists’ hands (or mouse) when drawing mental dialect maps? Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
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2023
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Stebler, V., Leemann, A. (2023). Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change. Language Variation and Change.
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2022
Büchler, A., & Leemann, A. (2022). Phonetic stability across time: linguistic enclaves in Switzerland. Linguistik Online.
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2022
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Variation and change in Swiss German agreement morphology: Spatial, social, and attitudinal effects. Journal of Linguistic Geography.
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2021
Kutscheid, S., Zahner, K., Leemann, A., Braun, B. (2021). How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
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2021
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2021). Reduction of survey sites in dialectology: A new methodology based on clustering. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
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2021
Hilton, N. & A. Leemann (2021). Editorial: Using smartphones to collect linguistic data. In Leemann, A., N. Hilton (eds.). Using Smartphones to Collect Linguistic Data. Linguistics Vanguard (S1, V7).
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2021
Leemann, A. (2021). Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions. In Leemann, A., N. Hilton (eds.). Using Smartphones to Collect Linguistic Data. Linguistics Vanguard (S1, V7).
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2021
Gittelson, B., A. Leemann, F. Tomaschek (2021). Using Crowd-Sourced Speech Data to Study Socially Constrained Variation in Nonmodal Phonation. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
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2020
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Studerus, M., Messerli, J. (2020). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing. Linguistics Vanguard, 6.3.
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2020
Britain, D., Blaxter, T., Leemann, A. (2020). East Anglian English in the English Dialects App. English Today, 143, Vol. 36, No. 3, 14-30.
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2020
Jansen, S., Robinson, J. A., Cahill, L., Leemann, A., Blaxter, T., Britain, D. (2020). Sussex by the sea: A descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the south of England based on English Dialect App data. English Today, 143, Vol. 36, No. 3, 31-39.
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2020
Kirkham, S., Turton, D., A. Leemann (2020). A typology of laterals in twelve English dialects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, EL72.
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2020
Strycharczuk, P., M. López-Ibáñez, G. Brown, A. Leemann (2020). General Northern English. Exploring regional variation in the North of England with machine learning. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
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2019
Leemann, A., C. Derungs, S. Elspass (2019). Analyzing linguistic variation and change using gamification web apps: the case of German-speaking Europe. PLOS ONE.
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2019
Schmid, S., Leemann, A., Studer-Joho, D., & Kolly, M.-J. (2019). Areale Variation von /r/-Realisierungen in schweizerdeutschen Dialekten. Linguistik Online, 98(5), 11-30.
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2018
Tomaschek, F. & A. Leemann (2018). The size of the tongue movement area affects the temporal coordination of consonants and vowels - A proof of concept on investigating speech rhythm. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America–EL, 144 (5), 410-416.
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2018
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, F. Nolan, Y. Li. (2018). The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker's dialect. Journal of Phonetics 68, 69-84.
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2018
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, D. Britain (2018). The English Dialects App: the creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus. Ampersand 5, 1-17.
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2017
Leemann, A. (2017). Analyzing geospatial variation in articulation rate using crowdsourced speech data. Journal of Linguistic Geography 4.2, 76-96.
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2017
Leemann, A. & B. Post (2017). Editorial in 'Multiplicity of Cues and Functions in Prosody'. Laboratory Phonology (Special Collection).
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2017
Kolly, M.-J., Boula de Mareüil, P., Leemann, A., Dellwo, V. (2017). Listeners use temporal information to identify French- and English-accented speech. Speech Communication 86, 121-134.
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2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, R. Purves, D. Britain, E. Glaser (2016). Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications. PLOS ONE.
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2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2015). Speaker-invariant suprasegmental temporal features in normal and disguised speech. Speech Communication 75, 97-122.
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2015
Dellwo, V., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2015). Rhythmic variability between speakers: Articulatory, prosodic and linguistic factors. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137.3, 1513-1528.
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2015
Dellwo, V., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2015). The recognition of read and spontaneous speech in local vernacular: the case of Zurich German. Journal of Phonetics 48, 13-28.
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2014
Leemann, A., H. Mixdorff, M. O'Reilly, M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo (2014). Speaker-individuality in Fujisaki model f0 features: implications for forensic voice comparison. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 21.2, 343-370.
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2014
Mixdorff, H., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo (2014). The influence of speaking rate on Fujisaki model parameters. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 33.
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2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, I. Werlen, D. Britain, D. Studer-Joho (2014). The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. Language Variation and Change 26.2, 191-218.
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2014
Leemann, A., Kolly, M.-J., Dellwo, V. (2014). Speaker-individuality in suprasegmental temporal features: implications for forensic voice comparison. Forensic Science International 238, 59-67.
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2011
Leemann, A. (2011). Dialektale Intonation des Schweizerdeutschen. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 185-206.
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Books 6

2025
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, M. Studerus, L. Oberholzer, P. Jeszenszky, F. Tomaschek, S. Kistler (2025). Dialäktatlas – 1950 bis heute. vdf Hochschulverlag.
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2024
Leemann, A., Perkins, R., Sullivan Buker, G., Foulkes, P. (2024). An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics. Routledge.
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2018
Leemann, A., S. Elspaß, R. Möller, T. Grossenbacher (2018). Grüezi, Moin, Servus – Wie wir wo sprechen. Hamburg: Rowohlt.
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2017
Leemann, A. (2017). New ways of analyzing the phonetics of Swiss German – Studies in the fields of forensic phonetics, dialectology, app-crowdsourcing, and sociolinguistics. Cumulative Habilitation Thesis. University of Zurich.
2012
Leemann, A. (2012). Swiss German Intonation Patterns (Studies in Language Variation 10). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 350pp (Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 2 (ZRS). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 181-187 (Alexander Werth)).
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2007
Leemann, A. (2007). Acoustic Analysis of Swiss English Vowel Quality: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach in Second Language Acquisition. Universität Bern: Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft, 42, 120pp.
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Edited volumes 5

2023
Pistor, T., C. Steiner, F. Tomaschek, A. Leemann (eds.) (2023). Book of Abstracts der 19. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, 06.-07.10.2023, Universität Bern. Universität Bern: Bern Open Publishing.
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2021
Leemann, A., N. Hilton (2021). Using Smartphones to Collect Linguistic Data. Special Collection in Linguistics Vanguard.
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2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, V. Dellwo (2015). Trends in phonetics and phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe. Edited volume with Peter Lang, 406pp.
2013
Schwab, S., A. Leemann (eds.) (2013). L'étude de la prosodie en Suisse, Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique (TRANEL 59). Institut de linguistique: Université de Neuchâtel, 182pp.
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2012
Ender, A., A. Leemann & B. Wälchli (eds.) (2012). Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics Series. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 536pp.
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Book chapters 11

2025
Britain, D., T. Blaxter & A. Leemann (2025). A socio-geographical investigation of lexical variability in England: Evidence from the English Dialects App. In R. Sandow & N. Braber (eds.), Sociolinguistic approaches to lexical variation in English. London: Routledge.
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2021
Britain, D., T. Blaxter, A. Leemann (2021). Dialect levelling in England: Evidence from the English Dialects App. In: Thibault, A., M. Avanzi, A. Millour (eds.). Nouveaux regards sur la variation dialectale / New Ways of Analyzing Dialectal Variation. TRALIPHI, 1-30.
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2021
Gopal, D., T. Blaxter, D. Willis, A. Leemann (2021). Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data. In: Ziegler, A., S. Edler, G. Oberdorfer (eds.). Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 254-278.
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2018
Britain, D., M.-J. Kolly, A. Leemann (2018). Using impact to make impact?: experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project. In: McIntyre, D., H. Price (Eds.), Applying Linguistics. Language and the Impact Agenda. London: Routledge, 83-98.
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2015
Hove, I., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman (2015). Swiss Voice App: “My voice – my dialect”, in: Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, V. Dellwo (eds.), Trends in Phonetics and Phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe.
2015
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann (2015). Dialäkt Äpp: communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public, in: Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, V. Dellwo (eds.), Trends in Phonetics and Phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe.
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2013
Peter, N., A. Leemann (2013). New approaches towards modeling fundamental frequency contours in Valais Swiss German. In: Schwab, Sandra and Adrian Leemann (eds.). L'étude de la prosodie en Suisse, Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique (TRANEL 59), 43-56.
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2012
Siebenhaar, B., A. Leemann (2012). Methodological reflections on the phonetic-phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects. In: Ender, Andrea; Adrian Leemann & Bernhard Wälchli (eds.). Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics Series. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 21-44.
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2007
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2007). Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-Initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German. In Language and Linguistics. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 129-146.
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2009
Leemann, A. (2009). Intonational Variation in Swiss German. In: Hinskens, Frans (Ed.): Language variation. European perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 135-143.
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2008
Leemann, A. (2008). Vowel Quality of Swiss EFL Speakers. In: Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa (ed.): Accents in English as a non-native language. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 16-32.
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Conference proceedings 41

2026
Wüst, A., & A. Leemann (2026). Applying the Simplified Vocal Profile Analysis (SVPA) to Swiss German Dialects. Proceedings of Interspeech 2026, 3284-3289.
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2026
Möller, S., Skarnitzl, R., Fröhlich, A., de Jong-Lendle, G., & Leemann, A. (2026). From Zurich to Valais: Phonetic Variation and its Impact on Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition. INDEX, 30-33.
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2024
Pistor, T. & A. Leemann (2024). Echoes of Implicit Bias. Exploring Aesthetics and Social Meanings of Swiss German Dialect Features. Proceedings Interspeech 2024, pp. 447-451.
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2023
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, B. Siebenhaar, P. Jeszenszky (2023). Sociolinguistic factors predicting sound change in Swiss German. Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, pp. 3030-3034.
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2023
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). From pasta zu pHizza. Variation and change in VOT in Swiss German. Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, pp. 3015-3019.
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2023
Vonlanthen, S., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). The sociolinguistics of R-vocalization in spoken Swiss Standard German. Proceedings of ICPhS, pp. 3592-3596.
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2023
Steiner, C., D. Studer, C. Lanthemann, A. Büchler, A. Leemann (2023). Sociodemographic and attitudinal effects on dialect speakers’ articulation of the standard language: Evidence from German-speaking Switzerland. Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, pp. 3542-3546.
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2023
Hedegard, H., A. Fröhlich, F. Tomaschek, C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2023). Filling the population statistics gap: Swiss German reference data on F0 and speech tempo for forensic contexts. Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, pp. 2558-2562.
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2022
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Lanthemann, C. (2022). Factors affecting the percept of Yanny or Laurel (or mixed): Insights from a large-scale study on Swiss German listeners. Interspeech 2022.
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2022
Young, N., Britain, D., Leemann, A. (2022). A blueprint for using deepfakes in sociolinguistic matched-guise experiments. Interspeech 2022.
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2019
Strycharczuk, P., G. Brown, A. Leemann, D. Britain (2019). Investigating FOOT-STRUT in Northern Englishes using crowdsourced data. Proceedings of the ICPhS 2019, 1337-1341.
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2019
Leemann, A., T. Blaxter, D. Britain, K. Earnshaw (2019). The FACE of Change in English Dialects: 1950 v 2018. Proceedings of ICPhS, 373-377.
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2019
Gräppi, C., A. Leemann (2019). Between-speaker variation in English Learners' Realisation of Dental Fricatives. Proceedings of the ICPhS 2019, 974-978.
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2018
Leemann, A., S. Schmid, D. Studer-Joho, M.-J. Kolly (2018). Regional variation of /r/ in dialects of Swiss German. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, 2738-2742.
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2018
Portmann, L., & A. Leemann (2018). Visual input trumps auditory input: teaching English intonation. Proceedings of Phonetik & Phonologie 13, 149-152.
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2018
Zihlmann, U. & A. Leemann (2018). /l/-vocalisation in Lucerne Swiss German dialects: a sociophonetic analysis using big data. Proceedings of Phonetik & Phonologie 13, 201-204.
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2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2016). Big Data for analyses of small-scale regional variation: A case study on sound change in Swiss German. Proc. of Phonetik & Phonologie 2016.
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2016
Zihlmann, U. & A. Leemann (2016). ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e>: using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. Proc. of Phonetik & Phonologie 2016.
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2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, F. Nolan (2016). Identifying a speaker's regional origin: the role of temporal information. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016.
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2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, Y. Li, R. Chan, G. Kwek, A. Jespersen (2016). Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016.
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2015
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, F. Matter (2015). Analysis of spatial variation with app-based crowdsourced audio data. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015 (Dresden).
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2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, J.-P. Goldman, V. Dellwo, I. Hove, I. Almajai, S. Grimm, S. Robert, D. Wanitsch (2015). Voice Äpp: a mobile app for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015 (Dresden).
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2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, F. Nolan (2015). It's not phonetic aesthetics that drives dialect preference: the case of Swiss German. Proceedings of ICPhS (Glasgow).
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2015
Leemann, A., C. Bernardasci, F. Nolan (2015). The effect of speakers’ regional varieties on listeners’ decision-making. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015 (Dresden)
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2015
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo, P. Boula de Mareuil (2015). Speaker-idiosyncrasy in pausing behavior: evidence from a cross-linguistic study. Proceedings of ICPhS (Glasgow).
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2014
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo (2014). Foreign accent recognition based on temporal information contained in lowpass-filtered speech. Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 14.-18.09.2014, Singapore, 2175-2179.
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2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, D. Britain, R. Purves, E. Glaser (2015). Documenting Sound Change with Smartphone Apps. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 137, No. 4, Pt. 2 of 2, 2304.
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2014
Goldman, J.-P., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, I. Hove, I. Almajai, V. Dellwo, S. Moran (2014). A Crowdsourcing Smartphone Application for Swiss German: Putting language documentation in the hands of the users. Proceedings of LREC 2014, 3444-3447.
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2014
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman, I. Hove, I. Almajai (2014). Voice Äpp. A smartphone application for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data. Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2014, 231-233.
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2014
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid (2014). Disentangling sources of rhythmic variability between dialects. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014, 693-697.
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2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo (2014). Crowdsourcing regional variation in speaking rate through the iOS app 'Dialäkt Äpp'. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014, 217-221.
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2012
Dellwo, V., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2012). Speaker idiosyncratic rhythmic features in the speech signal. Proceedings of Interspeech 2012, 9.-13.9.2012, Portland (OR), USA, 1584-1587.
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2012
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid (2012). Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai, 22.-25.5.2012, 607-610.
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2010
Leemann, A., L. Zuberbühler (2010). Declarative sentence intonation patterns in 8 Swiss German Dialects. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan, 26-30 September 2010, 1768-1771.
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2010
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2010). Statistical Modeling of F0 and Timing of Swiss German Dialects. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, 11-14 May 2010, paper 180.
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2009
Leemann, A., K. Hirose, H. Fujisaki (2009). Analysis of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours of Continuing and Terminating Phrases of Four Swiss German Dialects. Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, 6.-10. September 2009, 2419-2422.
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2009
Leemann, A., K. Hirose (2009). Command-response modeling of spontaneous Swiss German dialectal speech. Proceedings of the Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan 2009, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 17.-19.3.2009.
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2008
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2008). Swiss Alpine and Midland Intonation. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil, 289-292.
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2008
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2008). Perception of Dialectal Prosody. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, 22.-26.9.2008, 524-527.
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2007
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2007). Intonational and Temporal Features of Swiss German. Proceedings of the ICPhS, Saarbrücken, 957-960.
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2006
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2006). Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-Initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS 2006). Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, pp. 127-142.
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Science communication 6

2026
Leemann, A. (2026). Mundart mit Kalkül: Die Werbung liebt Klischees. Revue – Das Magazin der SAGW (Juni 2026), 34-40.
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2019
Leemann, A., J. Setter, S. Kirkham (2019). Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts. The Conversation (03/2019).
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2018
Leemann, A. (2018). Singende Walliser, langsame Berner, rhythmische Bündner – Prosodische Variation im Schweizerdeutschen. SAL Bulletin.
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2015
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann (2015). Dialektologie vermitteln - Dialekte ermitteln. Die Dialäkt Äpp errät und erfasst, woher Testpersonen kommen. Sprachspiegel 3, 78-85.
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2014
Dellwo, V., I. Hove, A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2014). Verbrecherjagd mit gesprochener Sprache: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der forensischen Phonetik. Kriminalistik 2, 119-126.
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2014
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann (2014). "Dialäkt Äpp: Dialektologie vermitteln - Dialekte ermitteln". 2013 Jahresbericht des Schweizerischen Idiotikons, 21-44.
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Under review 6

in review
Pistor, T., B. Siebenhaar, A. Leemann (in review). Phonetic Distance Outweighs Attitudes in Predicting Social Judgments of Swiss German Dialects. Journal of Language Variation and Sociolinguistics.
in review
Leemann, A. (in review). Texting, dialect use, and the linguistic marketplace.
in review
Pheiff, J., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (in review). Die Markierung von Genus im Plural: Variation und Wandel in der Genuskongruenz der Numeralien zwei und drei.
revisions
Weber, J. & A. Leemann (revisions). Mundart als Mainstream: Ein diachroner Vergleich der Schweizer Fernsehwerbung (1985-2025).
revisions
Vonlanthen, S., A. Leemann, F. Busch (revisions). «Verstehen, aber nicht sprechen»: Eine quantitative Untersuchung zu den gegenseitigen Spracherwartungen von Deutschschweizer:innen und Deutschen.
revisions
Hudson, T., Leemann, A. (revisions). Fundamental Frequency and Intonation. Oxford Handbook of Forensic Phonetics, edited by K. McDougall, F. Nolan, and T. Hudson.

In preparation 2

in prep.
Leemann, A., F. Tomaschek, C. Steiner (in prep.). Psychological and attitudinal drivers of language change.
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Willis, D. & A. Leemann (in prep.). The diffusion of American innovations in British and Irish English.

Invited talks 45

2026
Leemann, A. (2026). Glarner Mundart im Wandel. Glarner Mundartverein, 03/26.
2026
Leemann, A. (2026). Wie und warum sich Schweizerdeutsch verändert. Collegium Generale, Universität Bern, 02/26.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Mapping Swiss German: Creating a dialect atlas in the digital age. Konstanz, (DE) 12/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Mapping Swiss German: Creating a dialect atlas in the digital age. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, remote 11/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Mapping Swiss German: Creating a dialect atlas in the digital age. Cambridge University, Sociolinguistics Circle, remote 10/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Dialäktatlas. SSG Jahresversammlung, virtuell, 06/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Dialektatlas 2.0. Schweizerdeutsch digital erforschen und kartieren. Universität Wien, Wien (AT), 06/25.
2024
Leemann, A. (2024). Mapping Swiss German: Creating a dialect atlas in the digital age. Oxford University, General Linguistics Seminar, Oxford (UK), 11/24.
2024
Leemann, A. (2024). Spricht man heute wirklich nicht mehr so wie früher? Seniorenuniversität Zürich, Zürich (CH), 03/24.
2023
Leemann, A. (2023). Sprachwandelforschung zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Forum Sprachvariation Nachwuchskolloquium, Universität Bern, Bern (CH), 09/23.
2023
Leemann, A. (2023). Spricht man heute wirklich nicht mehr so wie früher? Schweizerdeutsch im 21. Jahrhundert. Universitäre Vorlesungen Winterthur. Winterthur, 05/23.
2022
Leemann, A. (2022). Variation and change in linguistic politeness: the role of regional, sociodemographic, and personality-related factors. Keynote at Taal & Tongval 2022. Ghent, 11/22.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, H. Hedegard, D. Britain (2021). What's in a voice? Estimating age, weight, height, education, and geographical origin. Bamberg, 06/21, virtual.
2021
Leemann, A. (2021). Workshop on Using smartphones and web-apps to collect phonetic data: benefits and pitfalls. Aarhus, 05/21, virtual.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, H. Hedegard, D. Britain (2021). What's in a voice? Estimating age, weight, height, education, and geographical origin. York, 05/21, virtual.
2020
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2020). Feldforschung trotz Pandemie, 12/2020, Marburg (DE), virtual.
2020
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2020). Feldforschung trotz Pandemie, 11/2020, Jena (DE), virtual.
2020
Leemann, A. (2020). Analyzing phonetic and morphosyntactic variation and change in British English using app and Twitter data. Universität Basel, 11/2020, Basel (CH), virtual.
2020
Leemann, A. (2020). Potenzial und Tücken von Stimmcloning, Deepfakes, und Massendaten in der Soziolinguistik. Universität Leipzig, 01/2020, Leipzig (DE).
2019
Leemann, A. (2019) Panel discussant at Clare Politics, 12/2019, Cambridge (UK).
2018
Leemann, A. (2018). Sociophonetics: Theory and hands-on practise. CUSO workshop on “Methodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic heritage language data”, 02/2018 Lausanne (CH).
2017
Leemann, A. (2017). Singende Walliser, langsame Berner, rhythmische Bündner – Prosodische Variation im Schweizerdeutschen. SAL Jahrestagung 2017, 11/2017 Zürich (CH).
2017
Leemann, A. (2017). Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects. University of York, 05/2017 York (UK).
2017
Leemann, A. (2017). Sprachwandel, Identität und Mobilität im deutschsprachigen Europa: 1950 vs. 2017. Universität Zürich, 03/2017 Zurich (CH).
2017
Leemann, A. (2017). Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects. University of Huddersfield, 02/2017 Huddersfield (UK).
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). Using mobile apps to crowdsource language change. University of Gothenburg, 10/2016 Gothenburg (SE).
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). Using mobile apps to crowdsource language change. University of Groningen, 09/2016 Groningen (NL).
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). 21st century methods for collecting big data on English Dialects. University of Glasgow, 03/2016 Glasgow (UK).
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). 21st century methods for collecting big data on English Dialects. University of Cracow, 03/2016 Cracow (PL).
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). 21st century methods for collecting big data on English Dialects. University of Kent, 02/2016 Canterbury (UK).
2015
Leemann, A. (2015). How a study on regional accents (inadvertently?) ended up on the front page of the most popular Swiss daily. Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 11/2015 Cambridge (UK).
2015
Leemann, A. (2015). Dialäkt Äpps – Dialektforschung mit Neuen Medien. Bodenseekonferenz, 09/2015 Bregenz (Austria).
2015
Leemann, A. (2015). "Zürichdeutsch ist beliebter als Berndeutsch" – Wie eine Dialektstudie (fälschlicherweise?) auf der Frontseite von 20 Minuten landete. BeLing, 09/2015 Bern (Switzerland).
2015
Leemann, A. (2015). Dialektforschung als Citizen Science. 2. Netzwerktreffen Citizen Science Schweiz, 04/2015 Bern (Switzerland).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2014). Wie verstecke ich meine Herkunft beim Sprechen? Schweizerische Studienstiftung, 10/2014 Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
2014
Leemann, A. (2014). Dialekt Äpps - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Smartphone Applikationen in der Dialektologie. 07/2014 Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2014). Assessing the potential of crowdsourced 'Dialäkt Äpp' data for research in phonetics and dialectology, 06/2014 Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany).
2014
Dellwo, V., I. Hove, A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2014). Forensische Phonetik. Forensisches Institut des Kantons Zürich, 03/2014 Zürich (Switzerland).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, I. Werlen, D. Britain, D. Studer-Joho, F. Hasler (2014). The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. Invited keynote at the Winter School on Language in Social Context in the Bernese Alps, 01/2014 Kandersteg (Switzerland).
2013
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2013). Dialäkt Äpp – Gäbet üüs ööchi Stimm! Verein für das Schweizerdeutsche Wörterbuch, Jahresversammlung in Zürich, 05/2013 Zürich (Switzerland).
2012
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann (2012). Dialäkt Äpp – Gesellschaftliches und wissenschaftliches Potenzial einer Smartphone Applikation. Verein Schweizerdeutsch, Gruppe Zürichdeutsch, 10/2012 Zürich (Switzerland).
2010
Leemann, A. (2010). Die exotische Sprachmelodie der Walliser – Evidenz aus Grundfrequenzanalysen und statistischer Modellierung. Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft, 03/2010 Bern (Switzerland).
2009
Leemann, A. (2009). Produktion und Perzeption schweizerdeutscher Intonation – Erste Resultate. 07/2009 Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).
2007
Leemann, A. (2007). Speech melody in Switzerland and the British Isles. Britta May Charleston Memorial Lecture, 11/2007 Bern (Switzerland).
2007
Leemann, A. (2007). Die Sprachmelodie des Schweizerdeutschen – Erste Erkenntnisse aus einem SNF-Projekt. Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft, 01/2007 Bern (Switzerland).

Conference talks 133

2026
Willis, D. & A. Leemann (2026). How do innovations spread between non-contiguous varieties? The case of Americanisms in British and Irish English. LAGB 2026, Edinburgh (UK), 09/26.
2026
Pistor, T., E. King, G. Schaffer, A. Leemann, E. Levon (2026). “To Whom Does This Belong?” – Mapping Speech, Region, and Social Meaning of German Varieties Across the DACH Area. ICLaVE 2026, Lausanne (CH), 06/26.
2025
Kummer, G., W. Hautz, A. Leemann (2025). Dialekt und Standard in deutschschweizer Notfallaufnahmen – eine erste Bestandsaufnahme. IGDD 2025, Berlin (DE), 09/25.
2025
Pistor, T., B. Siebenhaar, A. Leemann (2025). Soziophonetische Bewertungen schweizerdeutscher Dialektmerkmale. IGDD 2025, Berlin (DE), 09/25.
2025
Gmür, N., Leemann, A., Kistler, S. (2025). Dialektvideos auf TikTok. ScienceComm 2025, St. Gallen (CH), 09/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Front or back? The changing landscape of Swiss German /r/. r-atics 8, Malta (ML), 05/25.
2024
Pheiff, J., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2024). Die Genuskongruenz der Kardinalzahlen zwei und drei in den Dialekten der Deutschschweiz zwischen Stabilität und sozialer Dynamik. Alemann:innentagung 2024, Bern (CH), 09/24.
2024
Heer, M. & A. Leemann (2024). DSändy, Sändlä oder Säbe - Regionale Verwendung und Verbreitung von Spitznamen in der Schweiz. Alemann:innentagung 2024, Bern (CH), 09/24.
2024
Pistor, T. & A. Leemann (2024). Vom Stereotyp zur Ästhetik und zurück - Soziophonetische Bewertungen schweizerdeutscher Dialektmerkmale. Alemann:innentagung 2024, Bern (CH), 09/24.
2024
Steiner, C. & A. Leemann (2024). C'est le [x] qui fait les Suisses! Soziodemografisch und affektiv bedingte Variation im Schweizer Standarddeutsch. Alemann:innentagung 2024, Bern (CH), 09/24.
2024
Pistor, T., & A. Leemann (2024). Echoes of Implicit Bias. Exploring Aesthetics and Social Meanings of Swiss German Dialect Features. Interspeech 2024, Kos (GR), 09/24.
2024
Pistor, T. & A. Leemann (2024). Beyond Sounds and Stereotypes – Exploring Phonaesthetic Perceptions of Swiss German Dialects. ICLaVE 2024, Vienna (AT), 07/24.
2024
Strycharczuk, P., S. Kirkham, E. Gorman, T. Nagamine, A. Leemann (2024). Gender-specific behaviour in vowel articulation. LabPhon 2024, Seoul (SK), 06/24.
2024
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Culpeper, L. Josi, F. Tomaschek (2024). Variation and change in thanking and saying goodbye to bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland. Forum of Germanic Language Studies, Cambridge (UK), 04/24.
2024
Hedegard, H., S. Natale, A. Leemann (2024). Linguistics in the Bernese High School: Reimagining the Swiss Pedagogical Pipeline in Language Science. VALS-ASLA, Bern (CH), 02/24.
2023
Steiner, C., A. Leemann (2023). Variation and change in VOT in Swiss German – a matter of identity? Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/23.
2023
Steiner, C., D. Studer, C. Lanthemann, A. Büchler, A. Leemann (2023). Sociodemographic and attitudinal effects on dialect speakers’ articulation of the standard language: Evidence from German-speaking Switzerland. Interspeech 2023, Dublin (IE), 09/23.
2023
Hedegard, H., A. Fröhlich, F. Tomaschek, C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2023). Filling the population statistics gap: Swiss German reference data on F0 and speech tempo for forensic contexts. Interspeech 2023, Dublin (IE), 09/23.
2023
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, B. Siebenhaar, P. Jeszenszky (2023). Sociolinguistic factors predicting sound change in Swiss German. ICPhS, Prague (CZ), 08/23.
2023
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). From pasta zu pHizza. Variation and change in VOT in Swiss German. ICPhS, Prague (CZ), 08/23.
2023
Leemann, A. (2023). Introduction to sociolinguistic research methods. Diagnostics DX.com Workshop, Universität Bern, Bern (CH), 06/23.
2022
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, B. Siebenhaar (2022). Which factors predict sound change in Swiss German? Urbane und Rurale Räume 2022, Bern (CH), 11/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Linguistic Mobility Index: a tool for estimating dialectal exposure. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik 2022, Lausanne (CH), 11/22.
2022
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Morphosyntactic innovation diffusion in German-speaking Switzerland – effects of personality traits on the diffusion of ene-plurals. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik 2022, Lausanne (CH), 11/22.
2022
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, B. Siebenhaar (2022). What are the driving forces behind sound change in Swiss German? Phonetik & Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022, Bielefeld (DE), 10/22.
2022
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Lanthemann, C. (2022). Factors affecting the percept of Yanny or Laurel (or mixed): Insights from a large-scale study on Swiss German listeners. Interspeech 2022, Incheon (SK), 09/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Linguistischer Mobilitätsindex: Quantifizierung von Mobilität und deren Auswirkungen auf Dialektwandel. 20. Alemann:innentagung, Chur (CH), 09/22.
2022
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Plurabildung im Schweizerdeutschen. 20. Alemann:innentagung, Chur (CH), 09/22.
2022
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, C. Lanthemann (2022). Schweizerdeutsch heute. Nacht der Forschung 2022, Bern (CH), 09/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Mapping techniques used to explore dialect variation and change in the project 'Swiss-German Dialects Across Time and Space'. Methods XVII 2022, Mainz (DE), 08/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Effects of mobility on dialect change: Introducing the Linguistic Mobility Index. Methods XVII 2022, Mainz (DE), 08/22.
2022
Parrot-Gräppi, C., & A. Leemann (2022). Macro-social variation in the articulation of labio-velar approximants by Swiss learners of English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022, Ghent (BE), 06/22.
2022
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Variation and change in noun plural formation in Swiss German. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022, Ghent (BE), 06/22.
2022
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Culpeper (2022). Variational pragmatics in Swiss German: thanking, apologizing, use of T-V forms, and telephone self-identification. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022, Ghent (BE), 06/22.
2022
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2022). Lexikalischer Wandel im Schweizerdeutschen: Regionale, makrosoziale und affektive Faktoren. IGDD 2022, Salzburg (AT), 06/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Linguistischer Mobilitätsindex: Quantifizierung von Mobilität und deren Auswirkungen auf Dialektwandel. IGDD 2022, Salzburg (AT), 06/22.
2022
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C. (2022). Population stats on digital literacy, smartphone makes, room acoustics, and hardware in remote data collection. LabPhon Satellite event, 06/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2022). Linguistic Mobility Index: a tool for quantifying dialectal exposure in studies of language variation and change. Bern Data Science Day, 05/22.
2022
Leemann, A., Steiner, C. (2022). Täfeli, Zältli oder Bonbon? Dialektvielfalt in der Schweiz. Kinder-Universität Bern, 04/22.
2022
Steiner, C. (2022). Spricht man heute wirklich nicht mehr so wie früher? Wandel und Variation im Schweizerdeutschen Ergebnisse aus dem SDATS Projekt. Phil.-hist. Forschungstag, 04/22.
2022
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Selecting representative survey sites from a large-scale dialectological study: A comparison of clustering methods. ICLaVE 2022, Vienna (remote), 04/22.
2022
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Noun plural marking in Swiss German – a system in change? ICLaVE 2022, Vienna (remote), 04/22.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2021). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: combining smartphone app recordings with Zoom videoconferencing. NWAV49, Austin (TX), 10/21.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, H. Hedegard, D. Britain (2021). What's in a voice? BeLing Kolloquium. Bern, 09/21.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2021). SDATS: A large-scale project on variation and change in German-speaking Switzerland (Sociolinguistics Symposium 2021). Hong Kong, 06/2021, virtual.
2021
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2021). Variation and change in predicative adjectives in Swiss German (Sociolinguistics Symposium 2021). Hong Kong, 06/2021, virtual.
2021
Jeszenszky, P., A. Leemann, C. Steiner, M. Studerus, J. Messerli (2021). Revisiting a monumental dialect survey 70 years later – how to select representative survey sites? (Sociolinguistics Symposium 2021). Hong Kong, 06/2021, virtual.
2021
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Studerus, M., Messerli, J., Oberholzer, L. (2021). Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space – Project presentation. 1. Workshop zur Forschung zum Schweizerdeutschen (FZS2021). Bern, 04/2021, virtual.
2021
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A. (2021). Variation and change in predicative adjectives in Swiss German. MVC2021. Cambridge, 03/2021, virtual.
2021
Willis, D., Blaxter, T., Gopal, D., Leemann, A. (2021). Insights from the Tweetolectology project. MVC2021. Cambridge, 03/2021, virtual.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, H. Hedegard (2021). Earwitness evidence accuracy revisited: Estimating age, weight, height, education, and geographical origin. AISV2021. Zurich, 02/21, virtual.
2020
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2020). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic. Australian Linguistic Society (ALS2020). Sydney, 12/2020, virtual.
2020
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2020). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik. Fribourg, 11/2020, virtual.
2020
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, M. Studerus, J. Messerli (2020). Quantitative approaches to linguistic politeness in German-speaking Switzerland: preliminary findings on pronominal address. Symposium on Multimodal Im/politeness. Zurich, 10/2020, virtual.
2020
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2020). Behauchung von Plosiven im Schweizerdeutschen: Ein Merkmal junger DialektsprecherInnen? Phonetik & Phonologie 16 Trier, 09/2020, virtual.
2020
Jeszenszky, P., Demiray, B., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2020). Towards a regionally representative and socio-demographically diverse resource of Swiss German. 5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference 2020, 06/2020, virtual.
2020
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2020). Predicting dialect use – Insights from a large-scale project combining historical and current data. American Association of Geographers (AAG), 04/2020, virtual.
2019
Leemann, A. (2019). Mit Tweets Sprache erforschen. Scientifica, 09/2019.
2019
Büchler, A., A. Leemann (2019). Phonetic stability across time: Linguistic enclaves in Switzerland. UKLVC2019, 09/2019, London (UK).
2019
Gräppi, C., A. Leemann (2019). English dental fricative substitutions by Swiss L2 learners. UKLVC2019, 09/2019, London (UK).
2019
Strycharczuk, P., G. Brown, A. Leemann, D. Britain (2019). Investigating FOOT-STRUT in Northern Englishes using crowdsourced data. ICPhS2019 (Melbourne, AUS).
2019
Leemann, A., T. Blaxter, D. Britain, K. Earnshaw (2019). The FACE of Change in English Dialects: 1950 v 2018. ICPhS2019 (Melbourne, AUS).
2019
Gräppi, C., A. Leemann (2019). Between-speaker variation in English Learners' Realisation of Dental Fricatives. ICPhS2019 (Melbourne, AUS).
2019
Leemann, A., Walker, E., Kirkham, S., Brown, G., Nance, C., Britain, D., Blaxter, T. (2019). Crowdsourcing variation and change in FOOT/STRUT and TRAP/BATH across England. ICLaVE 10, 06/2019 (Leeuwarden, NL).
2019
Willis, D., Gopal, D., Blaxter, T., Leemann, A. (2019). Big data for a small language: Mapping variation in Welsh on social media. ICLaVE 10, 06/2019 (Leeuwarden, NL).
2019
Kutscheid, S., Zahner, K., Braun, B., Leemann, A. (2019). Underlying mechanisms in the perception of metrical prominence – The role of occurrence frequency of different pitch accent types. COFLIS, 06/2019 (Lecce, IT).
2019
Willis, D., T. Blaxter, A. Leemann, D. Gopal (2019). Localising morphosyntactic variation in Welsh Twitter data. LSA2019 Annual Meeting, 01/2019 (New York, US).
2018
Willis, D., Gopal, D., Blaxter, T., Leemann, A. (2018). Urbanisation and morphosyntactic variation in Twitter data. Urban Language Research 2018, 11/2018 (Graz, AT).
2018
Willis, D., D. Gopal, T. Blaxter, A. Leemann (2018). Localising morphosyntactic variation in Welsh Twitter data. NWAV47, 10/2018 (New York, US).
2018
Blaxter, T. & A. Leemann (2018). “Dialectological apples and oranges: Exploring language change between the Survey of English Dialects and the English Dialects App.” Sussex Research on Language Linguistics Seminar, University of Sussex, 10/2018.
2018
Elspass, S., A. Leemann, C. Derungs (2018). Wandel in real und apparent time in der deutschen Alltagssprache. IGDD, 09/2018 (Marburg, DE).
2018
Jannedy, S., M. Weirich, A. Leemann (2018). The ecological validity of crowdsourced data. P&P14, 09/2018 (Vienna, AT).
2018
Leemann, A., S. Schmid, D. Studer-Joho, M.-J. Kolly (2018). Regional variation of /r/ in dialects of Swiss German. Interspeech 2018, 09/2018 (Hyderabad, IN).
2018
Blaxter, T., A. Leemann, D. Britain (2018). Levelling, isogloss movement or artefacts of the method? Mapping change between the SED and the English Dialects App. ISLE 5, 07/2018 (London, UK).
2018
Gittelson, B., Y. Li, A. Leemann (2018). Voice quality of 4000+ speakers across the UK. BAAP 2018, 04/2018 (Kent, UK).
2018
Leemann, A., D. Studer-Joho, S. Schmid, M.-J. Kolly (2018). Geographical distribution of rhotics in Swiss German. BAAP 2018, 04/2018 (Kent, UK).
2017
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, D. Studer-Joho (2017). /r/ in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. 19. Alemannentagung, 10/2017 (Freiburg, DE).
2017
Hilton, N., Leemann, A., C. Gooskens (2017). Crowd-sourcing Variation in Minority Languages: Illustrated with Frisian. Methods in Dialectology XVI, 08/2017, Tachikawa (JP).
2017
Derungs, C., Leemann, A., L. Scherrer (2017). A tool for measuring spatial saturation in large-scale dialectological survey data. Methods in Dialectology XVI, 08/2017, Tachikawa (JP).
2017
Leemann, A. (2017). Using smartphone apps to map phonetic variation in British English, German, and Swiss German. Acoustical Society of America Spring Meeting 2017, 06/2017, Boston (USA).
2017
Hilton, N., A. Leemann, C. Gooskens (2017). Crowdsourcing variation in minority languages: illustrated with Frisian, ICLaVE 2017, 06/2017, Malaga (ES).
2017
Britain, D., A. Leemann, T. Blaxter, M.-J. Kolly (2017). Evidence of levelling processes in British English crowdsourced using 'The English Dialects App', ICLaVE 2017, 06/2017, Malaga (ES).
2017
Parkinson, L., A. Leemann (2017). Distribution of Articulation rate across England – Findings based on 150 speakers, ICLaVE 2017, 06/2017, Malaga (ES).
2017
Leemann, A., C. Derungs, T. Grossenbacher (2017). Lexical change in German-speaking Europe: 1950 vs. 2015, ICLaVE 2017, 06/2017, Malaga (ES).
2017
Li, Y., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, R. Chan, G. Kwek, A. Jespersen (2017). Language-dependent and language-independent perception of prominence, PaPE 2017, 06/2017, Cologne (DE).
2017
Grossenbacher, S., D. Britain, A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, T. Blaxter, D. Wanitsch (2017). Smartphone app methodologies for regional dialectology: the English North-South divide in data from the English Dialects App. Conference on Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: perspectives from Linguistics and Geography, 04/2017, Ascona (CH).
2017
Blaxter, T., A. Leemann & D. Britain (2017). “Evidence of sound change in the British English crowdsourced using the ‘English Dialects App’.” 4th International Workshop on Sound Change. University of Edinburgh, 04/2017.
2016
Britain, D., Leemann, A., Blaxter, T., Kolly, M.-J. (2016). Going, going but not gone: Dialect levelling, socially differentiated mobility and lessons from the English Dialect App. Taal & Tongval, 11/2016 Gent (BE).
2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2016). Big Data for analyses of small-scale regional variation: A case study on sound change in Swiss German. Phonetik & Phonologie 12, 10/2016 Munich (DE).
2016
Britain, D., A. Leemann, T. Blaxter, D. Wanitsch, M.-J. Kolly, S. Grossenbacher (2016). Big bad dialectological data? Lessons from the English Dialect App. Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, 10/2016 (Newcastle, UK)
2016
Blaxter, T., A. Leemann & D. Britain (2016). “Evidence of levelling processes in British English crowdsourced using the ‘English Dialects App’.” BCL PhD Linguistics Summer School. Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England, 07/2016.
2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, D. Britain, R. Purves, E. Glaser (2016). Crowdsourcing Big Data in dialectology – the case of Swiss German. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2016, 06/2016 Murcia (ES).
2016
Li, Y., R. Chan, A. Leemann, G. Kwek, A. Jespersen, M.-J. Kolly (2016). The role of duration in the perception of prominence in typologically different and related languages. BAAP 2016, 03/2016 Lancaster (UK).
2015
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo, P. Boula de Mareuil (2015). Speaker-idiosyncrasy in pausing behavior: evidence from a cross-linguistic study. ICPhS 2015, 08/2015 Glasgow (UK).
2015
Leemann, A., F. Nolan (2015). Identifying a speaker's dialect: the role of segments and prosody. IAFPA 2015, 07/2015 Leiden (Netherlands).
2015
Britain, D., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2015). The English Dialect App. ICLaVE 8, 05/2015 Leipzig (Germany).
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2015). There is an app for that: documenting language change with smartphone apps. ICLaVE 8, 05/2015 Leipzig (Germany).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman, I. Hove, I. Almajai (2014). Crowdsourcing mittels Swiss VoiceApp: Eine Brücke zwischen Dialektforschung und Öffentlichkeit. Alemannentagung, 10/2014 Tübingen (Germany).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, I. Werlen, D. Britain, D. Studer-Joho (2014). Die Diffusion der /l/‐Vokalisierung in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz: Momentaufnahme 2012. Alemannentagung, 10/2014 Tübingen (Germany).
2014
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo (2014). Foreign accent recognition based on temporal information contained in lowpass-filtered speech. Interspeech 09/2014 Singapore (Singapore).
2014
Leemann, A. (2014). Phonetik vermitteln - Phonetische Daten ermitteln. ScienceComm14, 09/2014 Beromünster (Switzerland).
2014
Schmid, S., M.-J. Kolly, A. Leemann, V. Dellwo (2014). Swiss German tertiary ethnolects: prosodic features of a PhonoGenre. Swiss Work in Prosody, 09/2014 Geneva (Switzerland).
2014
Hove, I., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman, I. Almajai, D. Wanitsch (2014). Phonetics for everyone – An educational smartphone application. Swiss Work in Prosody, 09/2014 Geneva (Switzerland).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2014). Assessing the potential of crowdsourced ‘Dialäkt Äpp’ speech data for forensic phonetics. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 08/2014 Zürich (Switzerland).
2014
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman, I. Hove, I. Almajai (2014). Voice Äpp. A smartphone application for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data. 07/2014 Lausanne (Switzerland).
2014
Hasse, A., A. Leemann, N. Giroud, M. Meyer (2014). Entsteht linguistische Salienz im Gehirn? 8th Days of Swiss Linguistics, 05/2014 Zürich (Switzerland).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, I. Hove, I. Almajai, D. Wanitsch (2014). Data elicitation 2.0: crowdsourcing areal and speaker variation. 8th Days of Swiss Linguistics, 05/2014 Zürich.
2013
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2013). Dialäkt Äpp – Wissenschaftliches Potenzial einer Smartphone Applikation. Phonetik & Phonologie 9, 10/2013 Zürich (Switzerland).
2013
Kolly, M.-J., V. Dellwo, A. Leemann (2013). The influence of second language on speaker-idiosyncratic temporal patterns. Summer school on Speech Production and Perception, 09/2013 Aix-en-Provence (France).
2013
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, H. Mixdorff, M.-J. Kolly (2013). Speaker discrimination using f0 and timing information. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 07/2013 Tampa, FL (USA).
2013
Kolly, M.-J., V. Dellwo, A. Leemann (2013). Speaker-idiosyncratic temporal patterns in L2 speech. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 07/2013 Tampa, FL (USA).
2013
Dellwo, V., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, M. Meyer (2013). Auditory speaker identification based on suprasegmental temporal characteristics. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 07/2013 Tampa, FL (USA).
2013
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, H. Mixdorff, M.-J. Kolly (2013). Speaker-specific f0 patterns. Swiss Workshop on Prosody, 03/2013 Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
2012
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, M.-J. Kolly (2012). Rhythmic differences between read and spontaneous speech: the case of %V. Phonetik & Phonologie, 10/2012 Jena (Germany).
2012
Dellwo, V., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2012). Speaker identification based on temporal information: A forensic phonetic study of speech rhythm and timing in the Zurich variety of Swiss German. 7th days of Swiss Linguistics, 09/2012 Lugano (Switzerland).
2012
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, I. Werlen, Y. Scherrer (2012). Wissenschaftliches Potenzial der Smartphone-Applikation „Dialäkt Äpp“ für dialektologische Untersuchungen zur Schweizer Sprachlandschaft. 7th days of Swiss Linguistics, 09/2012 Lugano (Switzerland).
2012
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Sutter, D. Brander, I. Werlen, F. Hasler, C. Eisenblatt (2012). Hören wir in Zürich bald Pfnüsu und Tubu statt Pfnüsel und Tubel? Das Fortschreiten der /l/-Vokalisierung in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. 7th days of Swiss Linguistics, 09/2012 Lugano (Switzerland).
2012
Dellwo, V., M.-J. Kolly, A. Leemann (2012). Speaker identification based on temporal information: a forensic phonetic study of speech rhythm and timing in the Zurich variety of Swiss German. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 08/2012 Santander (Spain).
2012
Scherrer, Y., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, I. Werlen (2012). Dialäkt Äpp – A smartphone application for Swiss German dialects with great scientific potential. 7. SIDG Conference Dialekt 2.0 and WBOE, 07/2012 Vienna (Austria).
2012
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid (2012). Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects. Speech Prosody, 05/2012 Shanghai (PRC).
2012
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo (2012). Exploring the potential of studying twins in speech rhythm research. Swiss Workshop on Prosody, 04/2012 Zürich (Switzerland).
2010
Leemann, A., S. Schmid, L. Zuberbühler (2010). Sprachrhythmus: ein Parameter für die prosodische Typologie schweizerdeutscher Dialekte? 6th days of Swiss Linguistics, 12/2010 Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
2009
Leemann, A. (2009). Dialektale Intonation des Schweizerdeutschen. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), 09/2009 Zürich (Switzerland).
2008
Leemann, A. (2008). English with a Swiss accent: vowel quality. International Workshop on Language and Speech Science, 09/2008 Tokyo (Japan).
2008
Leemann, A. (2008). Intonation as identity marker in Swiss German. Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, 04/2008 Amsterdam (Holland).
2007
Leemann, A. (2007). Vowel quality of Swiss EFL speakers. Accents, 12/2007 Łódź (Poland).
2007
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2007). Intonational and temporal features of Swiss German. ICPhS 2007, 08/2007 Saarbrücken (Germany).
2007
Leemann, A. (2007). Intonational variation in Swiss German. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, 07/2007 Nicosia (Cyprus).
2006
Siebenhaar, B., Leemann, A. (2006). Methodische Grundsätze zur Datenerhebung im NF Projekt Quantitative Ansätze zu einer Sprachgeographie der schweizerdeutschen Prosodie. 5th days of Swiss Linguistics, 11/2006 Basel (Switzerland).
2006
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2006). Prosodic features of spontaneous utterance-initial phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German. International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech, 11/2006 Taipei (Taiwan).
2006
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2006). Prosodic features of spontaneous utterance-initial phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German. Phonetik & Phonologie 5, 10/2006 Stuttgart (Germany).
2006
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2006). Komparative Beschreibung der Intonation des Bern- und Walliserdeutschen. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), 09/2006 Vienna (Austria).
2006
Leemann, A. (2006). Acoustic analysis of Swiss English vowel quality. Studentische Tagung der Sprachwissenschaft, 05/2006 Bern (Switzerland).

Conference posters 55

2026
Wüst, A. & A. Leemann (2026). Applying the Simplified Vocal Profile Analysis (SVPA) to Swiss German Dialects. Interspeech 2026, Sydney (AU), 09/26.
2026
Leemann, A., E. Levon, T. Pistor, G. Schaffer, E. King (2026). Sound Effects – Tracing the Origins of Social Meaning in Phonetic Variation. ICLaVE 2026, Lausanne (CH), 06/26.
2026
Pistor, T., A. Leemann, E. Levon, E. King, G. Schaffer (2026). Sound Effects – Tracing the Origins of Social Meaning in Phonetic Variation. Poster and flash talk. Tag der Schweizer Linguistik 2026, Lugano (CH), 06/26.
2025
Pistor, T., A. Leemann, B. Siebenhaar (2025). Phonetic Distance vs. Social Factors in Sociophonetic Evaluations of Swiss German. Phonetik & Phonologie 2025, Leipzig (DE), 10/25 – Award for best poster.
2025
Möller, S., A. Fröhlich, S. Lim, A. Leemann, G. de Jong-Lendle (2025). Reference Population Effects on Automatic Speaker Recognition Performance. IAFPA 2025, Den Haag (NL), 07/25.
2023
Gräppi, C., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2023). Difference in Gender in the Realisation of the English STRUT vowel in Swiss German. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/23.
2023
Leemann, A., C. Lanthemann (2023). Evaluation of different versions of Swiss Standard German. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/23.
2023
Pheiff, J., A. Leemann, C. Steiner (2023). Sound Change Across Five Generations of Swiss German Dialect Speakers. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/23.
2023
Tomaschek, F., A. Leemann, C. Steiner (2023). Personality traits and their correlation with prosody. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/23.
2023
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, Y. Miescher (2023). Reaction time predicts accuracy in the estimation of speaker origin. IAFPA 2023, Zurich (CH), 07/23.
2023
Vonlanthen, S., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). The sociolinguistics of R-vocalization in spoken Swiss Standard German. ICPhS, Prague (CZ), 08/23.
2022
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, M. Studerus, L. Oberholzer (2022). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing. ICLaVE 2022, Vienna (remote), 04/22.
2021
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, B. Siebenhaar (2021). Variation and change in the quality of Schwa in Swiss German. P&P2021 09/21, Frankfurt, virtual.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, H. Hedegard, D. Britain (2021). Earwitness evidence accuracy revisited: estimating speaker age, height, weight, geographical origin, political affiliation, and education. IAFPA 8/21, Marburg, virtual.
2021
Kutscheid, S., K. Zahner, A. Leemann, B. Braun (2021). Different pitch accents affect perceived focus position in German wh-questions. PaPE 2021, 05/21, Barcelona, virtual.
2021
Studerus, M., L. Oberholzer, J. Messerli, P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2021). Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space (SDATS). Forschungstag der Universtät Bern, 04/2021 Bern, virtual.
2019
Strycharczuk, P., López-Ibáñez, M., Brown, G., A. Leemann (2019). Defining accent features in urban Northern English vowel systems. UKLVC2019, 09/2019, London (UK).
2018
Tomaschek, F. & A. Leemann (2018). How do anatomical differences affect individual speech rhythm. P&P14, 09/2018 (Vienna, AT).
2017
Gräppi, C., & A. Leemann (2017). Auditory analysis of interdental fricatives articulated by Swiss learners of English. Phonetik & Phonologie 13, 09/2017 Berlin (DE).
2017
Portmann, L. & A. Leemann (2017). Visual input trumps auditory input: teaching English intonation. Phonetik & Phonologie 13, 09/2017 Berlin (DE).
2017
Jannedy, S., Weirich, M., A. Leemann (2017). Voiceless Fricatives in Deutschklang. Phonetik & Phonologie 13, 09/2017 Berlin (DE).
2017
Bizzozero, S., Netzschwitz, N., A. Leemann (2017). The effect of fundamental frequency f0, syllable rate and pitch range on listeners’ perception of fear in a female speaker’s voice. IAFPA 2017, 07/2017 Split (CR).
2016
Zihlmann, U., A. Leemann (2016). ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e>: using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. Phonetik & Phonologie 12, 10/2016 Munich (DE).
2016
Gittelson, B., Y. Li, A. Leemann (2016). Preliminary UK population data on voice quality. IAFPA 2016, 07/2016 York (UK).
2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, F. Nolan (2016). Identifying a speaker's regional origin: the role of temporal information. Speech Prosody 2016, 05/2016 Boston (USA).
2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, Y. Li, R. Chan, G. Kwek, A. Jespersen (2016). Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. Speech Prosody 2016, 05/2016 Boston (USA).
2016
Leemann, A., F. Nolan (2016). Disentangling the contribution of segments and prosody in dialect identification. BAAP 2016, 03/2016 Lancaster (UK) – Award for best poster.
2015
Leemann, A. (2015). How do we determine the regional origin of speakers based on their pronunciation? Cambridge Language Sciences annual symposium, 11/2015 Cambridge (UK).
2015
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, F. Matter (2015). Analysis of spatial variation with app-based crowdsourced audio data. Interspeech 2015, 09/2015 Dresden (Germany).
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, J.-P. Goldman, V. Dellwo, I. Hove, I. Almajai, S. Grimm, S. Robert, D. Wanitsch (2015). Voice Äpp: a mobile app for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data. Interspeech 2015, 09/2015 Dresden (Germany).
2015
Leemann, A., C. Bernardasci, F. Nolan (2015). The effect of speakers’ regional varieties on listeners’ decision-making. Interspeech 2015, 09/2015 Dresden (Germany).
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, F. Nolan (2015). It's not phonetic aesthetics that drives dialect preference: the case of Swiss German. Proceedings of ICPhS 2015, 08/2015 Glasgow (UK).
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, D. Britain (2015). Methodological reflections on Big Data in phonetics. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2015), 06/2015 Cambridge (UK).
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, D. Britain, R. Purves, E. Glaser (2015). Documenting Sound Change with Smartphone Apps. Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 05/2015 Pittsburgh (USA).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo (2014). Testing the effect of dialect imitation on suprasegmental temporal features. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 08/2014 Zürich (Switzerland).
2014
Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo (2014). Speaker-individual rhythmic features in both L1 and L2 speech: implications for forensic voice comparison. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 08/2014 Zürich (Switzerland).
2014
Hove, I., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman, I. Almajai, D. Wanitsch (2014). Using the smartphone application ‘Voice Äpp’ to collect speech population data: implications for forensic phonetics. International Conference of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, 08/2014 Zürich (Switzerland).
2014
Goldman, J.-P., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, I. Hove, I. Almajai, V. Dellwo, S. Moran (2014). A Crowdsourcing smartphone application for Swiss German: Putting language documentation in the hands of the users. LREC, 05/2014 Reykjavik (Iceland).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, S. Schmid (2014). Disentangling sources of rhythmic variability between Swiss German dialects. Speech Prosody, 05/2014 Dublin (Ireland).
2014
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo (2014). Crowdsourcing regional variation in speaking rate through the iOS app ‘Dialäkt Äpp’. Speech Prosody, 05/2014 Dublin (Ireland).
2013
Hove, I., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman (2013). A smartphone application for a voice profile. Phonetik & Phonologie 9, 10/2013 Zürich (Switzerland).
2013
Hasler, F., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2013). Die Sprachlandschaft des Kantons Bern. Phonetik & Phonologie 9. 10/2013 Zürich (Switzerland).
2013
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, H.J. Mixdorff, M.-J. Kolly (2013). Speaker-specificity in the time and f0 domain. Summer school on Speech Production and Perception. 09/2013 Aix-en-Provence (France).
2012
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, M.-J. Kolly (2012). Exploring speech temporal features of twins: the case of %V. Phonetik & Phonologie 8, 10/2012 Jena (Germany).
2012
Dellwo, V., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2012). Speaker-idiosyncratic rhythmic features in the speech signal. Interspeech 2012, 09/2012 Portland (USA).
2012
Leemann, A., V. Dellwo, M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid (2012). Dialectal typology based on speech rhythm. Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing, 07/2012 Glasgow (Scotland).
2012
Dellwo, V., S. Schmid, A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2012). Speaker identification based on speech rhythm: The case of bilinguals. Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing, 07/2012 Glasgow (Scotland).
2011
Leemann, A. (2011). Einfluss der Schweizerdeutschen Phonologie auf die Stimmhaftigkeit von Frikativen im L2-Englischen. Phonetik & Phonologie 7, 10/2011 Osnabrück (Germany).
2010
Leemann, A. (2010). Differences in the fundamental frequency patterns of male and female Swiss German speakers. European Conference on Tone and Intonation, 11/2010 Stockholm (Sweden).
2010
Leemann, A., L. Zuberbühler (2010). Highest Alemannic and High Alemannic F0 contours in contrast. Interspeech 2010, 09/2010 Makuhari (Japan).
2010
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2010). Statistical modeling of f0 and timing of Swiss German dialects, Speech Prosody 2010, 05/2010 Chicago (USA).
2009
Leemann, A., K. Hirose, H. Fujisaki (2009). Analysis of voice fundamental frequency contours of continuing and terminating phrases of four Swiss German dialects. Interspeech 2009, 09/2009 Brighton (UK).
2009
Leemann, A., K. Hirose (2009). Command-response modeling of spontaneous Swiss German dialectal speech, Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 03/2009 Tokyo (Japan).
2008
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2008). Perception of dialectal prosody. Interspeech 2008, 09/2008 Brisbane (Australia).
2008
Leemann, A., B. Siebenhaar (2008). Swiss alpine and midland intonation. Speech Prosody 2008, 05/2008 Campinas (Brazil).

Public talks and science fairs 11

2025
Leemann, A., S. Kistler, A. Baumann, A., M. Swain (2025). Schweizerdeutsche Dialekte. Nacht der Forschung, Universität Bern 09/2025.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Science et cité Wissenschaftscafé Bern, Bern (CH), 07/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Der neue Dialäktatlas: Mundart im Wandel. Gastvortrag beim Solothurner Dialektverein, 05/25, Solothurn, CH.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Schweizerdeutsche Dialekte früher und heute. Festvortrag an der Volkshochschule Schwarzenburg. 05/25, Schwarzenburg, CH.
Archived
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Der neue Dialäktatlas. Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe 'Heimspiel' im Palass Zofingen. 03/25, Zofingen, CH.
Website
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Der neue Dialektatlas – Mundart stets im Wandel. Seniorenverein Oberaargau Süd. Madiswil (CH), 03/25.
2025
Leemann, A. (2025). Der neue Dialektatlas – Mundart im Wandel. Verein Zürichdeutsch. Zürich (CH), 03/25.
2024
Leemann, A. (2024). Dialäktatlas – Schweizerdeutsche Dialekte im 21. Jahrhundert. Buch am Mittag, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Bern. Bern (CH), 12/24.
2023
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, G. Kummer, A. Wüst, T. Pistor (2023). Schweizerdeutsch im Wandel der Zeit. Booth at Scientifica UZH / ETHZ 09/2023.
2023
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky (2023). Schweizerdeutsche Dialekte. Nacht der Forschung, Universität Bern 09/2023.
2021
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, N. Adam-Graf (2021). Schwizerdütsch Erläbe. Booth at Scientifica UZH / ETHZ 09/2021.

Apps 13

2020
Leemann, A. (2020). SDATS-App. (no longer in the App Store)
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). Deutschklang. (no longer in the App Store)
2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, Britain, D. (2016). English Dialects. (no longer in the App Store)
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2015). Grüezi, Moin, Servus. (no longer in the App Store)
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman (2015). Voice Äpp. (no longer in the App Store)
2014
Leemann, A., S. Moran (2014). US Dialect App. (no longer in the App Store)
2013
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2013). Dialäkt Äpp. (no longer in the App Store)
2020
Leemann, A. (2020). SDATS-App. (no longer in the Google Play)
2016
Leemann, A. (2016). Deutschklang. (no longer in the Google Play)
2016
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, Britain, D. (2016). English Dialects. (no longer in the Google Play)
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly (2015). Grüezi, Moin, Servus. (no longer in the Google Play)
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman (2015). Voice Äpp. (no longer in the Google Play)
2015
Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, M. Brupbacher, T. Grossenbacher, D. Wanitsch (2015) (in collaboration with Spiegel Online and Tagesanzeiger). Grüezi, Moin, Servus.

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