Publications

Monographs and edited volumes

• 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., 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. 

Articles, refereed chapters, proceedings

2024

• 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. 

2023

• 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. (in review). Identifying social and soft biometric information from speech. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law.

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 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.

2021

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. 

2019-20

• 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.

Conference talks

2023

• 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.

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.

• 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.

2021

• 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.

2020

• 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.

Conference Posters

• 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.

Invited Talks

• 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.