Ole Schützler 

University education and academic posts

• Since August 2012:  Akademischer Rat a. Z. (Assistant Prof.) in English Linguistics at the University of Bamberg; postdoctoral research

• 2008-2012: Doctoral Studies in English Linguistics, University of Bamberg (Dissertation: Modelling Internal and External Factors in Accent Variation: A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English); supervised by Manfred Krug (Bamberg) and Ulrike Gut (Münster)

o   2011-2012: Research stay in Edinburgh, Scotland; collaboration with Prof. James M. Scobbie at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) from 10/2011 to 3/2012

• 2006-2011: Lecturer and research assistant in English Linguistics, University of Bamberg

• 1997-2006: Studies for the degree of Erstes Staatsexamen (state board exam) in English Literature and Linguistics, Universities of Bonn and Mannheim; studies for the degrees of Erstes Staatsexamen (state board exam) in Music and Diploma in Music Theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Mannheim

o   2006: Erstes Staatsexamen (state board exam) in English

o   2004-2005: Foreign Language Assistant (German) in Edinburgh, Scotland

o   2004: Diploma in Music Theory

o   2003:  Erstes Staatsexamen (state board exam) in Music

o   2000:  English studies at the University of Strathclyde (funded by the  DAAD)

Societies and research groups  / other qualifications

• Member of the International Phonetic Association (IPA)
• Member of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
• Member of the Research project Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization III [Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation / European Regional Development Fund, CONSOLIDER grant HUM2007-60706]. Principal investigator: Prof. Teresa Fanego, University of Santiago de Compostela [October 2007 – September 2012]
• Certificate Methods of University Teaching issued by the universities of Bamberg, Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nürnberg and Würzburg

Research interests

• Language variation and change, particularly in British English
• Complex sentences: finite and non-finite complement clauses
• Sociolinguistics, particularly sociophonetics; accent studies
• Acoustic and experimental phonetics
• Quantitative methods in linguistics
• Scottish English and Scots; contact between Germanic languages and dialects in (north-) Britain
• Contrastive linguistics English-German

Publications

• [monograph, in preparation] A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English.
  
  
• [forthcoming] Vowel variation in Scottish Standard English: Accent-internal differentiation or anglicisation? In: Robert Lawson (ed.) Sociolinguistics in Scotland: Current Perspectives on Scots, Scottish English and Gaelic. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  
  
• [forthcoming May 2013] The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r). In: Peter Auer, Javier Caro, Göz Kaufmann (eds.) Language variation - European Perspectives IV. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 215 - 228.
  
  
• 2013 [with Manfred Krug] Recent change and grammaticalization in the English verb phrase. In: Bas Aarts, Geoffrey Leech & Joanne Close (eds.) The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora. Cambridge: CUP. 155 - 186.
  
  
• 2012. Regional (in-)variability of vowel space organisation in Scottish Standard English. In David Tizón-Couto, Beatriz Tizón-Couto, Iria Pastor-Gómez & Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.) New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research II: Studies in Language Variation, Meaning and Learning. Bern: Peter Lang. 183-204.
  
  
• 2011. Statistical approaches to hierarchical data in sociophonetics: The case of variable rhoticity in Scottish Standard English. In Chris Cummins et al. Chi-Hé Elder, Thomas Godard, Morgan Macleod, Elaine Schmidt & George Walkden (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research. 148-158.
  
  
• 2011. Charting vowel spaces in Edinburgh middle-class speech. English World-Wide 32 (1): 24-45.
  
  
• 2010. Variable Scottish English consonants: The cases of /ʍ/ and non-prevocalic /r/. Research in Language 8: 5-21. [DOI: 10.2478/v10015-010-0010-9]
  
  
• 2010. Which WAY do Scottish monophthongs GO? Charting vowel variation in Scottish Standard English. In Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (ed.) Issues in Accents of English 2: Variability and Norm. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 133-145.
  
  
• 2009. Unstable close-mid vowels in modern Scottish English. In Carlos Prado-Alonso, Lidia Gómez-García, Iria Pastor-Gómez & David Tizón-Couto (eds.) New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research. Diachronic, Diatopic and Contrastive Studies. Bern: Peter Lang. 153-182.

Conference papers

• 2012    “Contact between standard accents of English: A multilevel approach to the expanding repertoires of speakers of Scottish Standard English in Edinburgh”. Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Berlin.
  
  
• 2011    “Variability and attrition in Scottish Standard English (r)”. 4th International Conference on the linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE4), Osnabrück.
  
  
• 2011    “The variable (r) in Scottish Standard English: predicting phonetic variability and derhoticisation”. 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE6), Freiburg.
  
  
• 2010    “Statistical approaches to hierarchical data in sociophonetics: The case of variable rhoticity in Scottish Standard English”. 6th Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing2010), Cambridge.
  
  
• 2010    “Exploring acoustic correlates of diphthong perception”. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2010) [within the workshop ‘Diphthongs – phonetic, phonological, historical, and typological perspectives’, convened by Adrian Simpson & Klaus Geyer] Vilnius.
  
  
• 2010    “Scottish Standard English Phonetics and Phonology: Modelling variability in (e), (o) and (r)”. Sprachwissenschaftliche Werkstatt, Bamberg.
  
  
• 2010    “Variable phonemic status and phonological rules: The cases of /ʍ/ and non-prevocalic /r/ in Scottish English”. 4th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW4), Sheffield.
  
  
• 2009    “External and internal determinants of consonant variation in Scottish English”. 3rd international conference on native and non-native accents of English (Accents2009), Łódź.
  
  
• 2009    “Phonetic description and acoustic testing: Towards a typology of vowel spaces in Scottish English”. 2nd ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC2), Vigo.
  
  
• 2009    “Charting patterns of variation in Scottish Standard English”. 7th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC7), Newcastle upon Tyne.
  
  
• 2009    “Vowel demergers, close-mid diphthongisation, and loss of non-prevocalic /r/ in Scottish English – related or unrelated trends?”. 3rd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE3), London.
  
  
• 2009    [with Manfred Krug] “Recent change and grammaticalization in constructions marking intention”. Survey of English Usage Symposium, London.
  
  
• 2008    “Which WAY do Scottish monophthongs GO? Phonemically and sociolinguistically conditioned vowel variation in Scottish Standard English”. 2nd international conference on native and non-native accents of English (Accents2008), Łódź.
  
  
• 2008    [Poster] “Unstable close-mid vowels in Scottish Standard English”. 1st triennial conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE1), Freiburg.
  
  
• 2008    “Unstable close-mid vowels in Scottish Standard English”. 1st ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC1), Santiago de Compostela.
  
  
• 2007    [with Manfred Krug] “On the ideal pronunciation of “idea“ in context: Internal and social parameters at the grammar-phonology interface”. 2nd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE2), Toulouse.
  
  

Invited talks and lecture series

• 2012    University of Münster, English Department. The Scottish Standard English Accent: History – Theory and Description – Contemporary Developments.

• 2012    Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Speech and Hearing Sciences. A sociophonetic approach to the acoustic variability of face and goat in Scottish Standard English.

• 2012    Edinburgh University, English Language Research Group (ELRG). Sociophonetic variability of Scottish Standard English /e/, /o/, and /r/.

• 2011    University of Glasgow, English Language Department, ‘Lab Lunch’. A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English. Modelling internal and external determinants of accent variation – Today: ‘Modelling variation of (r).

• 2011    University of Glasgow, English Language Department, ‘Lab Lunch’. Sociophonetic variability of  face in Scottish Standard English.

• 2010    University of Bamberg, Sprachwissenschaftliche Werkstatt. Scottish Standard English Phonetics and Phonology: Modelling variability in (e), (o) and (r).

• 2007    Annual meeting of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) lecturers in the UK and Ireland, Cumberland Lodge, London. Workshop: Kontrastive Phonetik und Phonologie des Deutschen und Englischen / Contrastive Phonetics and Phonology of German and English.

Teaching

•    PS II: English Morphology and Word-formation
•    PS II: Methods in Sociolinguistics
•    Ü: Workshop Introduction to Linguistics
•    Ü: Phonetics & Phonology
•    PS II: Experimental Phonetics
•    PS II: Scottish English
•    PS II: Dialects of English in the British Isles
•    Ü/S: Statistics for Linguistic Purposes
•    Ü: Translation English-German
•    Ü: Translation (German-English) & Creative Writing [at the University of Edinburgh]