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Simon Oppermann

Simon Oppermann

Research Fellow

Germanistische Linguistik/Varietätenlinguistik
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 2411
04107 Leipzig

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Abstract

For my PhD project I am researching individual variation across the lifespan, i.e. whether, and if so, how individuals change the way they speak over the course of their lives. Here, the focus is on linguistic (in-)stability in East-Central German.


Currently, I am particularly interested in linking new methods such as machine learning/AI with more traditional questions of variational linguistics.


I am also interested in historical linguistics, language change, language variation, onomastics, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics, but above all in (instrumental) phonetics.

Professional career

  • since 10/2021
    Research fellow, German Linguistics/Variational Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Beat Siebenhaar), Leipzig University
  • since 10/2022
    Course guidance (M.A. German Language and Literature), Leipzig University
  • 10/2022 - 03/2023
    Research fellow, German Linguistics/Grammar (Prof. Dr. Barbara Schlücker), Leipzig University
  • 10/2021 - 03/2022
    Research fellow, Historical Linguistics of German (JProf. Dr. Jessica Nowak), Leipzig University
  • 06/2018 - 03/2021
    Research assistant in the DFG project "Speech tempo and phonetic reduction in German". Project number 383554615
  • 06/2018 - 03/2021
    Research assistant, German Linguistics/Variational Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Beat Siebenhaar), Leipzig University

Education

  • since 02/2021
    Individual doctorate in German Linguistics/Variational Linguistics, Leipzig University, Supervision: Prof. Dr Beat Siebenhaar
  • 10/2017 - 09/2020
    M.A. German Language and Literature (Leipzig University)
  • 10/2014 - 07/2017
    B.A. German Language and Literature (Leipzig University)

Talks/Presentations:

  • "Lifespan change: Sprachliche (In-)Stabilität von Individuen im ostmitteldeutschen Raum" [= "Lifespan change: Linguistic (in)stability of individuals in East Central Germany"], Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics, FU Berlin, 07.11.2023. (zus. m. Beat Siebenhaar)
  • "What’s that phthong? Automated classification of dialectal mono- and standard diphthongs", 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic. 09.08.2023. (w/ Beat Siebenhaar)
  • "Das Alter(n) als soziolinguistische Variable" [= "Age(ing) as a sociolinguistic variable"], Linguistik an der Philologischen Fakultät [= Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology], Leipzig University, 24.10.2022. (w/ Beat Siebenhaar)
  • „Lifespan change im Ostmitteldeutschen“, 7. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD) [= 7th Congress of the International Society for Dialectology of the German], Salzburg, AT, 07.07.2022. (w/ Beat Siebenhaar)
  • „Lifespan change – insights from a panel study in East Middle German”, 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Wien, AT (Online), 14.04.2020. (w/ Beat Siebenhaar)


Poster:

  • Tracing coronalisation across the lifespan. P&P 19, Bern. 07.10.2023. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28391.42403 (w/ Beat Siebenhaar)

  • Oppermann, S.; Siebenhaar, B.
    What’s that phthong? Automated classification of dialectal mono- and standard diphthongs
    In: Skarnitzl, R.; Volín, J. (Eds.)
    Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague 2023. Prague, Czech Rebublic: Guarant International. 2023. pp. 3637–3642.
    ISBN: 978-80-908 114-2-3
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Supervised theses:

  • Burkardt, Rosa Bella Cosima (2023): Verschwörung in der politischen Rede – (Sprachliche) Merkmale der Verschwörungserzählung, des Extremismus und des Populismus bei den Freien Sachsen (BA)
  • Bähr, Hanna (2023): Löwe, Erdmännchen & Co.: Animal-directed speech von Jörg Gräser (BA)


  • Regional Language / Regiolect and Dialects in Saxony: Collaboration with the Saxon Language Atlas

    Website: https://dsa.info/sachsen/ueber_uns

  • Phonetics and Phonology (Winter Semester 2022/23)

  • Instrumental Phonetic Analyses of Linguistic Variation (Summer Semester 2022)

  • Introduction to Historical Linguistics of German (Winter Semester 2021/22)