Publications
Dr. Carina Laura Steiner
Dr. Carina Laura Steiner
Leemann, A., Tomaschek, F., Steiner, C. (in prep.). Psychological and attitudinal drivers of language change.
Pistor, T., Steiner, C., Pheiff, J., Schneider, C. (in prep.). Im Spannungsfeld zwischen sprachlicher Stabilität und sozialer Dynamik. Beiträge zur 21. Arbeitstagung zur alemannischen Dialektologie.
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.
Hedegard, H., Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Britain, D. (revisions). Dialect proximity and soft biometric inference from read speech. International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law.
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Steiner, Carina (2023). Language Variation and Change in German-Speaking Switzerland: Spatial, Social, and Individual Factors. Cumulative PhD Thesis. University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
Leemann, A., Steiner, C., Studerus, M., Oberholzer, L., Jeszenszky, P., Tomaschek, F.. Kistler, S. (2024). Dialäktatlas. 1950 bis heute. VDF.
Pistor, T., Steiner, C., Pheiff, J., Schneider, C., Leemann, A. (2024). Book of Abstracts der 21. Arbeitstagung zur alemannischen Dialektologie (ALTA 2024) 09.–11.09.2024 Universität Bern. Universität Bern: Bern Open Publishing. DOI: 10.48620/7302
Pistor, T., Steiner, C., Tomaschek, F., Leemann, A. (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. DOI: 10.48350/186731.
Gräppi, C., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2025). Articulation of the STRUT vowel in L2 English speakers of Swiss German. In Linguistik Online, 37(5), 69–86. https://doi.org/10.13092/8r1v7v73.
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2024). What drives nonlinguists' hands (or mouse) when drawing mental dialect maps? In Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqae003, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae003.
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2024). Effects of mobility on dialect change: Introducing the Linguistic Mobility Index. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0300735. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300735.
Leemann, A., Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Culpeper, C., Josi, L. (2024). Saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland. Journal of Pragmatics 234 (2024), 78-98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.011.
Steiner, C., Studer-Joho, D., Lanthemann, C., Büchler, A, Leemann, A. (2023). Sociodemographic and attitudinal effects on dialect speakers’ articulation of the standard language: Evidence from German-speaking Switzerland. Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A. (2023). From pasta to pHizza. Variation and change in VOT in Swiss German. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, ID 171.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change. In Language Variation and Change, 35(1), 1-28. doi:10.1017/S0954394523000091.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). Variation and Change in Swiss German Agreement Morphology: Spatial, Social, and Attitudinal Effects. In Journal of Linguistic Geography 11(1). doi: 10.1017/jlg.2022.12.
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. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, B. Siebenhaar, P. Jeszenszky (2023). Sociolinguistic factors predicting sound change in Swiss German. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Vonlanthen, S., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). The sociolinguistics of R-vocalization in spoken Swiss Standard German. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Leemann, A., Hedegard, H., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Britain, D. Identifying social and soft biometric information from speech. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law.
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 974 listeners of Swiss German. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, Seoul, South Korea.
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2021). Reduction of survey sites through clustering: a new geospatial methodology for traditional dialectology. Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence.
Contributions in: Berthele, R., I. Udry (eds.): Individual differences in early instructed foreign language learning: Exploring the role of language aptitude, general learning abilities, and affective factors. EuroSla Studies Series. LanSci Press – PDF
Udry, I., Berthele, R., Steiner, C. (2021). Foreign language aptitude from different perspectives.
Steiner, C., Berthele. R. (2021). Language Aptitude at Primary School LAPS: Design and Procedures.
Berthele, R., Vanhove, J., Steiner, C., Udry, I., Schneider, H. (2021). Predicting L2 achievement: Results from a test battery measuring language aptitude, general learning ability, and affective factors.
Steiner, C. (2021). The closer the better? Contextual and individual influences on young learners’ L2 motivation.
Steiner, C. (2021). The dynamics of young learners’ affective dispositions – a longitudinal perspective.
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(s3), 20200061. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0061
Udry, I. & Steiner, C. (2019). Sprachlerneignung und Differenzierung im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Babylonia, 1(2019), 34-38.
Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2024). C'est le [x] qui fait les Suisses – affektive und soziodemografische Einflusse auf die Artikulation des Schweizer Standarddeutschen. ALTA2024, Bern
Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2023). Variation and change in VOT in Swiss German – a matter of identity? Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/23.
Steiner, C., Studer-Joho, D., Lanthemann, C., Büchler, A, Leemann, A. (2023). Sociodemographic and attitudinal effects on dialect speakers’ articulation of the standard language: Evidence from German-speaking Switzerland. Interspeech 2023, Dublin (IE), 09/23.
Hedegard, H., Fröhlich, A. Tomaschek, T., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2023). Filling the population statistics gap: Swiss German reference data on F0 and speech tempo for forensic contexts. Interspeech 2023, Dublin (IE), 09/23.
Leemann, A., Steiner, C., Siebenhaar, B., (2023). Sociolinguistic factors predicting sound change in Swiss German. ICPhS, Prague (CZ), 08/23.
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A. (2023). From pasta zu pHizza. Variation and change in VOT in Swiss German. ICPhS, Prague (CZ), 08/23.
Pheiff, J., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). Yes, a structural dialectology is possible. Zur Sprachdynamik der Genuskongruenz beim Zahlwort zwei in den schweizerdeutschen Dialekten. Tagung zur Kategorie Numerus, Paris (FR), 06/2023.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2023). Variation und Wandel in der Aspiration von Plosiven im Schweizerdeutschen. Soziolinguistische Perspektiven: Kontakt – Variation – Wandel, Bern (CH), 05/2023.
Steiner, C., A. Leemann, P. Jeszenszky, J. Culpeper (2023). Variation und Wandel in der sprachlichen Höflichkeit der Deutschschweiz: regionale und altersbezogene Faktoren. ALP Tagung, Köln, 03/2023.
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.
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.
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, C. Lanthemann (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.
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Linguistischer Mobilitätsindex: Quantifizierung von Mobilität und deren Auswirkungen auf Dialektwandel. 20. Alemann:innentagung, Chur (CH), 09/22.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Plurabildung im Schweizerdeutschen. 20. Alemann:innentagung, Chur (CH), 09/22.
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.
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.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Variation and change in noun plural formation in Swiss German. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022, Ghent (BE), 06/22.
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.
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2022). Lexikalischer Wandel im Schweizerdeutschen: Regionale, makrosoziale und affektive Faktoren. IGDD 2022, Salzburg (AT), 06/22.
Jeszenszky, P., C. Steiner, A. Leemann (2022). Linguistischer Mobilitätsindex: Quantifizierung von Mobilität und deren Auswirkungen auf Dialektwandel. IGDD 2022, Salzburg (AT), 06/22.
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky (2023). Population stats on digital literacy, smartphone makes, room acoustics, and hardware in remote data collection. LabPhon18 (remote), 06/2022.
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, 04/2022.
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2022). Selecting representative survey sites from a large-scale dialectological study: A comparison of clustering methods. ICLaVE 2022, Vienna (remote), 04/2022.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2022). Noun plural marking in Swiss German – a system in change? ICLaVE 2022, Vienna (remote), 04/2022.
Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2021). SDATS (2019-2021): A large-scale project on language variation and change in German-speaking Switzerland. Taal en Tongval 2021, Gent, virtual.
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P. (2021). Are regional borders only present in our minds? Challenging borders conference, University of Bern, 11/2021. (presenter)
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2021). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: combining smartphone app recordings with Zoom videoconferencing. NWAV49, Austin (TX), 10/21.
Steiner, C., Stebler, V., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A. (2021). Noun plural formation in Swiss German. BeLing Research Colloquium. Bern, 09/2021.
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, H. Hedegard, D. Britain (2021). What's in a voice? BeLing Research Colloquium. Bern, 09/2021.
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, 06/21, virtual.
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, 06/21, virtual.
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.
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Studerus, M., Messerli, J., Oberholzer, L. (2021). Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space –Project presentation. 1. Workoshop zur Forschung zum Schweizerdeutschen (FZS2021). Bern, 04/2021, virtual. (co-author, workshop co-organiser)
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A. (2021). Variation and Change in Swiss German Agreement morphology. Effects of social mobility, language contact, and attitudes. MVC21, 03/2021, virtual.
Steiner, C. (2021): Predicative Adjective Agreement in Swiss German. BeLing Research Colloquium Berner Linguistik. University of Bern. Bern, 02-2021, virtual.
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Messerli, J., Studerus, M. (2020). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic. Australian Linguistic Society (ALS2020). Sydney, 12/2020, virtual.
Steiner, C., Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2020). Predicative Adjectives in Swiss German. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik. Fribourg, 11/2020, virtual.
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner, J. Messerli, M. Studerus (2020). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik. Fribourg, 11/2020, virtual.
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.
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.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, Leemann, A. (2020). Roadmap of a comparative dialect atlas, Siegen, 09/2020, virtual.
Jeszenszky, P., Demiray, B., Steiner, C., Leemann (2020). Towards a regionally representative and socio-demographically diverse resource of Swiss German. 5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference 2020, 06/2020, virtual.
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.
Gräppi, C., Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2023). Difference in Gender in the Realisation of the English STRUT vowel in Swiss German. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/2023.
Pheiff, J., Leemann, A., Steiner, C. (2023). Sound Change Across Five Generations of Swiss German Dialect Speakers. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/2023.
Tomaschek, F., Leemann, A., Steiner, C. (2023). Personality traits and their correlation with prosody. Phonetik & Phonologie 2023, Bern (CH), 10/2023.
Leemann, A., Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Miescher, Y. (2023). Reaction time predicts accuracy in the estimation of speaker origin. IAFPA 2023, Zurich (CH), 07/2023.
Vonlanthen, S., Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A. (2023). The sociolinguistics of R-vocalization in spoken Swiss Standard German. ICPhS, Prague (CZ), 08/23.
Steiner, C., Jeszenszky, P., Leemann, A., (2022). Morphosyntactic Innovation Diffusion in German-speaking Switzerland. Effects of Personality Traits on the Diffusion of ene-Plurals. Tag der Schweizer Linguistik, University of Lausanne. 11/2022.
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, 05/2022.
Leemann, A., Jeszenszky, P., Steiner, C., Studerus, M., Oberholzer, L. (2022). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing. ICLaVE 2022, Vienna (remote), 04/2022.
Leemann, A., C. Steiner, P. Jeszenszky, B. Siebenhaar (2021). Variation and change in the quality of Schwa in Swiss German. P&P2021 09/2021, Frankfurt, virtual.
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 08/2021, Marburg, virtual.
Steiner, C. (2024). Sprachwandel und -variation 1950 bis heute, University of Zurich. 10/2024.
Steiner, C. (2024). Häärleische, Lattüechjini und Eidexe. Walliserdeutsch im Wandel der Zeit. Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe 'Valais en recherches', Mediathek Wallis, Brig. 01/2024.
Steiner, C. (2023). Morphosyntactic Change in Swiss German. Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Vorlesung 'Dialektologie des Schweizerdeutschen', Universität Bern. 10/2023.
Steiner, C. (2023). "Summervogel, Pfifoltra oder Schmätterling? Veränderungen in der schweizerdeutschen Dialektlandschaft" 8x8' - junge Forschende erzählen, Universität Bern. 06/2023.
Steiner, C. (2023). Mehrsprachigkeit in der Schweiz. Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Vorlesung Soziolinguistik, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern. 05/2023.
Steiner, C. (2022). Eine sprachliche Reise durch Raum und Zeit am Beispiel von Wandel und Variation im Schweizerdeutschen. Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Workshops 'reisende Artefakte', Hochschule der Künste (HKB), Bern. 04/2022.
Steiner, C., Leemann, A. (2022). Täfeli, Zältli oder Bonbon? Dialektvielfalt in der Schweiz. Kinder-Universität Bern, 04/2022.
Steiner, C., V. Stebler, P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2021). Numerusprofilierung im Schweizerdeutschen. Forschungskolloquium Systemlinguistik. Bern. 12/2021.
Leemann, A., Steiner, C. (2021). "Spricht man heute wirklich nicht mehr so wie früher? Schweizerdeutsch im 21. Jahrhundert" – Seniorenuniversität Bern. 10/2021.
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 (virtual) 05/2021.
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2020). Feldforschung trotz Pandemie, Marburg (DE), virtual. 12/2020.
Leemann, A., P. Jeszenszky, C. Steiner (2020). Feldforschung trotz Pandemie, Jena (DE), virtual. 11/2020.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2020). Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space, "Bohrproben aus dem WBKolleg", University of Bern. 01/2020.
Steiner, C., P. Jeszenszky, A. Leemann (2020). Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space, Bern. 12/2019.