Mathias Scharinger (Dr. phil), Linguistics
Education
| When | Degree | University |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Intermediate Exam | University of Konstanz |
| 2001 | B.A.Hons First Class | Canterbury University Christchurch, New Zealand; Linguistics (major) & Literature [2000 Jan-2001 Dec] |
| 2003 | M.A. | University of Konstanz; General Linguistics (major), German Literature Arts & Media Sciences |
| 2006 | PhD (November) | University of Konstanz, Linguistics |
PhD Thesis
"The representations of vocalic features in vowel alternations: Phonological, morphological and computational aspects"
Abstract
The proposal is that vowel inventories are best described by phonological feature representations where there are no dependencies between tongue height (aperture) and place feature. Two case studies (German and New Zeland English) provide evidence for the differential representation of the vowels according to whether they do or do not occur in grammatical alternations. The evidence stems from acoustic analyses, speech perception, psycholinguistic (behavioral lexical decision tasks) and neurolinguistic (EEG) experiments as well as from language change.
Electronic Book (Library of the University of Konstanz)
Current appointment:
Postdoctoral research fellow
Graduate Appointments
| 1998-2000 | Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Konstanz |
| 2002 | Computer Technician Assistant |
| 2002-2006 | Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Konstanz |
Awards
Alumni Prize for MA, University of Konstanz
University Exchange Fellowship (Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Research Grants
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Organisation): Visiting Fellow at Canterbury University of Christchurch, New Zealand (December 2004 – February 2005)
Research Areas
| Phonology: | Feature Theory, Phonology-Morphology interaction, Constraints on phonological change, Morphologization |
| Phonetics: | Acoustic cues for features; perception of spectral and temporal features; Phonological cues in speech recognition; automatic speech recognition with features |
| Psycholinguistics: | Phonological representation, parsing and lexical access; morphological organisation in the mental lexicon; resolving post-lexical phonological variation |
| Neurolinguistics: | Neuronal evidence for feature-based phonological representations; processing of morphologically complex words |
| Morphology: | Modelling of regular and irregular inflection, organization of inflectional classes |
| 2002 | Dual Difficulties? Lexical Access and German Irregular Verbs within a Featurally Underspecified Lexicon. Masters Thesis |
| 2006 | The Representation of Vocalic Features in Vowel Alternations. Phonological, Morphological and Computational Aspects (PHD Thesis). Konstanz: Konstanz Online Publication System (http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-24341) |
| 2006 | Featural representations of the New Zealand English short front vowels. Paper presented at the Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006, University of Auckland |
| 2007 | Minimal representations of alternating vowels. Lingua (special edition), In press |
| 2007 | (with Aditi Lahiri & Henning Reetz) Morphological encoding via phonological features. From phonetics to grammar. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences 2007, University of Saarbrücken |
| 2007 | (with Aditi Lahiri & Henning Reetz) Representation and processing of morphologically regular but phonologically opaque alternations, Submitted to Cognition |
| 2008 | Phonological height differences in English dialects: consequences for processing and representation. Revisions submitted to Language and Speech |
| 2008 | (with Carsten Eulitz & Aditi Lahiri): Neurophysiological evidence for sparse representations of alternating vowels in word stems. Under review |
| 2008 | (with Henning Reetz & Aditi Lahiri): Levels of regularity in inflected word form processing. Revisions submitted to The Mental Lexicon |
| 2008 | (with Henning Reetz & Frank Zimmerer): When "beating" becomes "house": Factors of /t/-deletion in German. In preparation |
Invited Talks
| 2004 | Workshop “Basic Mechanisms of Speech Perception”, Schloss Freudental: Mixed Feelings? Irregular Verbs: The rule that proves the exception (January 17th) |
| 2004 | Workshop “Speech perception by human and not-so-human”, Schloss Freudental: Vowel raising in the present tense (July 2nd) |
| 2005 | Amherst Phonology Group, UMass: Height and place underspecification in vowels of New Zealand English and German and its relevance for speech recognition (November 11th) |
| 2007 | Stanford University Linguistic Department Colloquium: Phonetic Variation in Speech Perception and Lexical Access (February 13th) |
| 2007 | DGfS (Linguistic Society of Germany) Annual Conference: Minimal representations of alternating vowels: Evidence from ERPs |
Conferences (reviewed abstracts)
| 2006 | The 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester: To umlaut or not to umlaut: Feature conflict in production versus perception (Poster Presentation, May 26th) |
| 2006 | The 2nd Conference of German Junior Researchers, Konstanz: Auf dem Weg nach oben: Neuseeland-Englische Vokale und ihre Spezifizierung im mentalen Lexikon (Oral Presentation, December 1st) |
| 2006 | The 11th Australasian Speech Science and Technology Conference, Auckland: Featural representation of the New Zealand English short front vowels (Oral paper presentation, December 6th) |
| 2007 | The 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester: From allophony to allomorphy: The case of German umlaut (Poster Presentation, May 25th) |
| 2007 | (with Aditi Lahiri & Henning Reetz) The 16th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS), Saarbrücken: Morphological encoding via phonological features: From phonetics to grammar (Oral Presentation, August 10th) |
| 2007 | (with Aditi Lahiri & Henning Reetz) Where do Features come from? International Conference, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne-Nouvelle): What lexical representations have to feature. HEIGHT in German vowels (Poster presentation, October 2007) |
| 2008 | (with Allison Wetterlin) International Conference "Development and variation in the lexicon", University of Konstanz: Segmental and tonal underspecification: Theoretical approaches and experimental findings |
| 2008 | Workshop "Discovering and Representing Phonological Patterns", University of Konstanz: Changing features or changing exemplars? A perspective on New Zealand English vowels |
| 2008 | Colloquium "Cognition and Emotion", University of Konstanz: Abstraktheit und Spezifizität von sprachlichen Langzeitrepräsentationen |
| 2008 | Max-Planck-Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig: Economy in the brain - Thoughts about speech perception |
| 2008 | Colloquium, University of Maryland, USA:Alternating stem variants: What is the basis for recognition? |
| 2008 | Workshop Morphology "To store or not to store: Handling of morphological complexity", University of Konstanz:The surface doesn’t tell it all: Representation of stem alternants |
University of Konstanz (Teaching Assistant)
| Proseminar (Undergraduate level): | Introduction to Phonology, Introduction to Linguistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Historical Linguistics |
| Hauptseminar (Graduate level): | Phonology, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics |