Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer

Publications & Presentations

Publications

• Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke  (2024) Schwa realisation in verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech  In: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft [DOI] [ViVo]

  Abstract Word-final schwa in German inflectional suffixes shows varying realisations in spontaneous speech – from full realisations with varying duration to no realisation. While previous research has identified numerous social, distributional, and grammatical factors influencing the variation of phonetic variables in general, it remains unclear how fine-grained functional differences in different registers specifically affect schwa realisation. In this corpus-based study, we compare schwa realisation in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech – free conversation and task-based dialogues – which differ only in their communicative goal and therefore have different functional requirements. We find that schwa is rarely realised, though slightly but significantly more often in free conversation than in task-based dialogue. Other factors also promoting schwa realisation across both situations are less frequent verbs and sequences, and IP-final position.

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• Weißgerber, Marie-Theres; Belz, Malte; Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine  (2024) The realisation of German indefinite articles in formal and informal spontaneous speech  In: P&P 20. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg [ViVo]
• Pescuma, Valentina Nicole; Serova, Dina; Lukassek, Julia; Sauermann, Antje; Schäfer, Roland; Adli, Aria; Bildhauer, Felix; Egg, Markus; Hülk, Kristina; Ito, Aine; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kordoni, Valia; Kühnast, Milena; Kutscher, Silvia; Lange, Robert; Lehmann, Nico; Liu, Mingya; Lütke, Beate; Maquate, Katja; Mooshammer, Christine; Mortezapour, Vahid; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Pankratz, Elizabeth; Patarroyo, Angela Giovanna; Plesca, Ana-Maria; Ronderos, Camilo R.; Rotter, Stephanie; Sauerland, Uli; Schulte, Britta; Schüppenhauer, Gediminas; Sell, Bianca Maria; Solt, Stephanie; Terada, Megumi; Tsiapou, Dimitra; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Weirich, Melanie; Wiese, Heike; Zaruba, Kathy; Zeige, Lars Erik; Lüdeling, Anke; Knoeferle, Pia; Schnelle, Gohar  (2023) Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods  In: Frontiers in Psychology [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]

  In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center ‘Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of SituationalFunctional Variation’ (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define ‘register’ as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of ‘register’, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: 1. To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. 2. To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals’ social, language, and educational background. 3. We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.

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• Belz, Malte; Sell, Bianca Maria; Lange, Robert; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke  (2023) BeDiaCo (L1-L1) und CoNNAR (L1-L1/L2). Freie und aufgabenorientierte spontansprachliche Dialoge in direkter und videobasierter Kommunikation  In: Neue Entwicklungen in der Korpuslandschaft der Germanistik. [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi  (2023) Acoustic measures of non-native addressee register for mid to high proficient English learners of German  In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague Congress Center [ViVo]
• Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine; Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi  (2023) Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR). Version 1 [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Zöllner, Alina; Adam, Lea-Sophie  (2021) Berlin Dialogue Corpus (BeDiaCo): Version 2 [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]

  BeDiaCo contains topic-led and task-led spontaneous dialogues of 36 participants as well as read word lists. The main corpus BeDiaCom contains 16 subjects not known to each other in a co-present face-to-face situation. The subcorpus BeDiaCov contains 20 subjects known and familiar to each other in a co-present face-to-face situation and, additionally, in a spatially separated videoconference situation. The corpus contains audio and TextGrid files and is annotated by employing a multi-layer architecture. In addition to a diplomatic transliteration and its phonetic segmentation, further annotation levels contain, for example, annotation values for filler particles, intonation phrases, dialogue structure, word types, and the realization of inflection.

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• Offrede, Tom; Fuchs, Susanne; Mooshammer, Christine  (2021) Multi‐speaker experimental designs: Methodological considerations  In: Language and Linguistics Compass [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]
• Kutscher, Silvia; Alexiadou, Artemis; Adli, Aria; Donhauser, Karin; Dreyer, Malte; Egg, Markus; Feulner, Anna Helene; Gagarina, Natalia; Hock, Wolfgang; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kammerzell, Frank; Knoeferle, Pia; Krause, Thomas; Krause, Thomas; Krifka, Manfred; Lüdeling, Anke; Maquate, Katja; McFadden, Thomas; Meyer, Roland; Mooshammer, Christine; Lütke, Beate; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Sauerland, Uli; Szucsich, Luka; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Waltereit, Richard; Wolfsgruber, Anne; Adli, Aria  (2020) Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation  In: REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]

  The Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412) investigates the role of register in language, focusing in particular on what constitutes a language user’s register knowledge and which situational-functional factors determine a user’s choices. The following paper is an extract from the frame text of the proposal for the CRC 1412, which was submitted to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2019, followed by a successful onsite evaluation that took place in 2019. The CRC 1412 then started its work on January 1, 2020. The theoretical part of the frame text gives an extensive overview of the theoretical and empirical perspectives on register knowledge from the viewpoint of 2019. Due to the high collaborative effort of all PIs involved, the frame text is unique in its scope on register research, encompassing register-relevant aspects from variationist approaches, psycholinguistics, grammatical theory, acquisition theory, historical linguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics, as well as qualitative and quantitative modeling. Although our positions and hypotheses since its submission have developed further, the frame text is still a vital resource as a compilation of state-of-the-art register research and a documentation of the start of the CRC 1412. The theoretical part without administrative components therefore presents an ideal starter publication to kick off the CRC’s publication series REALIS. For an overview of the projects and more information on the CRC, see https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/.

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Presentations

• Terada, Megumi; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria  (2023) Acoustic measures of non-native addressee register for mid to high proficient English learners of German  In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague Congress Center [ViVo]
• Terada, Megumi; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria  (2023) Acoustic measures of non-native addressee register for mid to high proficient English learners of German  In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague Congress Center [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi; Lange, Robert  (2022) Das Berlin Dialogue Corpus (BeDiaCo) und das Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR) – themen- und aufgabenorientierte spontansprachliche Dialoge in direkter und videobasierter Kommunikation  In: IDS-Methodenmesse 2022 [PDF] [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi; Lange, Robert  (2022) Das Berlin Dialogue Corpus (BeDiaCo) und das Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR) – themen- und aufgabenorientierte spontansprachliche Dialoge in direkter und videobasierter Kommunikation  In: IDS-Methodenmesse 2022 [PDF] [ViVo]
• Sell, Bianca Maria; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke; Oliviera, Maggie Bullock; Lange, Robert  (2022) Non-Native Addressee Register in German  In: 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe - ICLaVE|11 [ViVo]
• Sell, Bianca Maria; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke; Oliviera, Maggie Bullock; Lange, Robert  (2022) Non-Native Addressee Register in German  In: 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe - ICLaVE|11 [ViVo]
• Knoeferle, Pia; Mooshammer, Christine; Lütke, Beate  (2022) Area C on modeling  In: CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 [ViVo]
• Knoeferle, Pia; Mooshammer, Christine; Lütke, Beate  (2022) Area C on modeling  In: CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 [ViVo]
• Lüdeling, Anke; Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine  (2021) The phonetic realisation of verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech  In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2021) [ViVo]
• Lüdeling, Anke; Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine  (2021) The phonetic realisation of verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech  In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2021) [ViVo]