We are living in the most exciting time in the history of language research. By aligning corpus methods with Generative AI, we can fundamentally reshape our understanding of human communication.

---> quote by Prof Laurence Anthony, plenary speaker at ICAME47, Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Current positions and memberships:

• Junior Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies (University of Koblenz)

• Chair of the organizing committee of ICAME47

• Principal investigator of the Speech-to-Speech project at the University of Koblenz

• Associated researcher in the Digital Humanities section at the University of Bern

• Member of the German Association for the Study of English (Anglistikverband)

• Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

• Member of the Departmental Governing Body (Leitungskollegium)

• Member of the Future Hub Teacher Education (Zukunftsforum Lehrkräftebildung)

• AI consultant for the Department of English and American Studies as well as for the Faculty of Arts/Humanities

• Departmental (Erasmus) coordinator for the partner institutions: University of Sunderland, Mary Immaculate College, Norwich School and Harold's Cross National School

• Contact person for the subject English at the Studienseminar Koblenz

• Associate member of the Department of Cultural Studies (University of Koblenz)

Research interests:

• Automatic Speech Recognition and Forced Alignment

• Scottish English

• Sociophonetics

• Computational Linguistics

• Sociolinguistics

• Phonetics and Phonology

• Corpus Linguistics

• Language assessment

• Teacher education

Awards:

• Dissertation Prize by the Department of Cultural Studies of TU Dortmund University, December 18, 2023.
• Winner of the Science Slam at the University of Koblenz, November 20, 2023.
• John Sinclair Bursary for best paper by an early career researcher at ICAME41 conference, May 20, 2020.

Current research transfer projects:

• Radio interviews with SWR3 on the linguistic diversity of Europe and the world.
• Finetuning ASR for local courts - project with the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz.

Latest and forthcoming publications:

Monographs:

• Weilinghoff, Andreas. 2026. Vowel duration patterns in Scottish English: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in the 21st century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399541992

Edited volumes:

• Weilinghoff, Andreas, Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier & Lisa Westermayer. 2024. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.119

Peer-reviewed articles / book chapters / conference proceedings:

• Weilinghoff, Andreas. Accepted. "Advancements in automatic speech recognition for corpus phonology: Evaluating Whisper’s performance on sociolinguistic datasets." In Philipp Meer & Ulrike Gut (eds.), English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions. De Gruyter.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas & Sarah Buschfeld. 2026. "Evaluating Three Advanced Methods for Sociophonetic Studies: Whisper, LaBB-CAT and PrInDT." In Adam Smith & Peter Collins (eds.), Worldwide Perspectives on English Unsage: Into the Third Millenium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009569699

• Weilinghoff, Andreas & Sarah Buschfeld. 2026. "Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es)." In Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger & Tobias Bernaisch (eds.), Evolving Englishes: Varieties through Space and Time. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003522041

• Weilinghoff, Andreas. 2025. Transcribing Diverse Voices: Using Whisper for ICE Corpora. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025 (pp. 3359–3363). International Speech Communication Association. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1980

• Weilinghoff, Andreas. 2025. "A Scottish perspective on the pluricentricity/pluriareality debate." In Philipp Meer & Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.32

• Weilinghoff, Andreas, Sarah Buschfeld, Sven Leuckert & Claus Weihs. 2024. "How real is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the new normal in linguistics." ICAME Journal 48(1). 1–22. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2024-0001

• Weilinghoff, Andreas, Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier & Lisa Westermayer. 2024. "Introduction: Crossing discipline boundaries with corpus linguistics methods." In Andreas Weilinghoff, Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier & Lisa Westermayer (eds.), Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, 1–6. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.119.01ron

• Weilinghoff, Andreas. 2024. "Politics, class and pronunciation: Onset /r/ and party affiliation in Scottish politics." In Christine Elsweiler (ed.), The languages of Scotland and Ulster in a global context, 71–90. Aberdeen: Publications of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster.

Online publications:

• Weilinghoff, Andreas, Jakob Sponholz & Juliane Schopf. 2025. Halving transcription time: A fast, user-friendly and GDPR-compliant workflow to create AI-assisted transcripts for content analysis. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13031

Code:

You can find a selection of my data processing scripts on my private website and on my Github page.

Talks:

• FORTHCOMING. Weilinghoff, Andreas (2026). 'Human versus AI? – Harmonising human and artificial intelligence for corpus linguistics.' Plenary talk at the conference Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era, University of Giessen, May 07-09, 2026.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2026). 'How Machines Learned to Hear and Understand: A Journey of Speech Processing.' Guest lecture at Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC), University of Trier, January 21, 2026.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Wunderlich, Sarah (2025). 'The Development of English Language Skills among TEFL students: Exploring the Past, Present and Future.' Anglistiktag 2025, University of Duisburg-Essen, September 22, 2025.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2025). 'Vom Phonographen Edisons bis Amazon Alexa und darüber hinaus: KI zur Verarbeitung gesprochener Sprache.' Impulsvortrag bei der IH-ervsKI Summer School 2025, Koblenz, September 18, 2025.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2025). 'Transcribing Diverse Voices: Using Whisper for ICE corpora.' Interspeech2025, Rotterdam, August 20, 2025.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2025). 'Mapping the Future of Corpus Preparation with ASR Technology.' ICAME46 conference. Vilnius University, June 18, 2025.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'Large Language Models for Office Communication.' 2G Energy AG, November 29, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'Assessing University Student Language Competencies with AI.' Interdisciplinary Colloquium. University of Koblenz, November 20, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'AI vs. Human? Cutting-Edge Tech Transforming Linguistic Research.' Guest lecture, University of Bern, October 7, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Boller, Nico (2024). 'Spoken Learner English and the Impact of University Education.' BICLCE 10 Conference, University of Alicante, September 28, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Boller, Nico (2024). 'Advancing English Language Skills in Today's TEFL Students: A Perspective on Grammar and Writing.' BICLCE 10 Conference, University of Alicante, September 28, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Buschfeld, Sarah (2024). 'Advanced Methods for Sociophonetics.' BICLCE 10 Conference, University of Alicante, September 27, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'ASR Advancements for Corpus Phonology: Evaluating Whisper's Performance on Sociolinguistic Datasets'. BICLCE 10 Conference, University of Alicante, September 27, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Meer, Philipp (2024). 'The development of L2 English pronunciation among English Studies students in Germany.' DGFF Conference for Early Career Researchers 2024, University of Paderborn, September 17, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Wunderlich, Sarah; Eul, Andreas (2024). 'The development of English linguistic competences over time: a diachronic study on German TEFL students from 2013 to 2024.' DGFF Conference for Early Career Researchers 2024, University of Paderborn, September 16, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'Evaluating Whisper for Sociolinguistic Data Transcription.' IVACS conference. University of Cambridge, July 16-17, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Buschfeld, Sarah (2024). 'Modeling morphosyntactic variation in Sint Maarten English(es).' ICAME45 conference. University of Vigo, June 18-22, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'KI für unterschiedliche Handlungsfelder nutzbar machen.' Handwerkskammer Koblenz, March 6, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2024). 'Linguistic Data preparation with AI: New Pathways in Speech Data Processing.' Interdisciplinary inaugural lecture. University of Koblenz, February 01, 2024.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023). 'New ways in linguistic data preparation.' University of Salzburg, December 14, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023). 'Harnessing a Revolution: The Latest AI for Natural Language Processing. Science Slam, University of Koblenz, November 30, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023). 'Transformer models for linguistics. Opportunities and Challenges'. English Department, University of Münster, October 23, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023). 'Completing a PhD: Tips for a wavering journey.' Plenary Talk. LinPin conference, The University of Duisburg-Essen, September 26, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023): 'Vowel duration in contemporary Scottish Standard English'. UKLVC14 (United Kingdom Language Variation and Change), The University of Edinburgh, June 26-28, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2023): 'The past, present and possible future of phonetic research'. Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland, March 02, 2023.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'Aitken's Law: Investigating vowel duration in the 21st century'. Department for Language, Literature and Culture, George McGovern Foyer, October 26, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'Investigating vowel duration in the 21st century: Aitken’s Law in naturally spoken Scottish Standard English'. NWAV50 Conference, Stanford University, USA, October 14, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas; Buschfeld, Sarah; Leuckert, Sven; Weihs, Claus (2022): 'How 'real' is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the 'new normal' in Corpus Linguistics'. ICAME43 Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, July 27-30, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'English in Scotland'.  Institute of English and American Studies, TU Dresden, Germany, June 29, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2022): 'Introduction to Sociophonetics'.  Institute of English and American Studies, TU Dresden, Germany, June 28, 2022.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Accelerating transcription work with ASR technology and Python scripting'.  English Department, University of Münster, Germany, November 15, 2021 .

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Politics and phonetics: Assessing the influence of party membership on pronunciation among Scottish politicians'. FRLSU2021, LMU Munich, Germany, October 30, 2021 .

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Politics and phonetics: Assessing the influence of party membership on rhotic sounds among Scottish politicians'. NWAV49, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, October 20, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'AI and Linguistics: Using ASR technology for transcription work'. GULP (Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 30, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Pushing transcription work to the next level – Using ASR and LaBB-CAT for linguistic studies'. ICAME42 Conference, TU Dortmund University, Germany, August 18-21, 2021. You can find all resources of my talk (slides, test file, scripts) here.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Seeking patterns in language: Using ASR technology for linguistic studies'. Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC), University of Trier, Germany, May 14, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2021): 'Using and evaluating conditional inference tree modeling for linguistic studies in R'. R User Group and Brown Bag Lunch Series, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany January 27, 2021.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2020): ‘Aitken’s Law Revised: Vowel Length in 21st Century Scotland’. ICAME41 Conference, University of Heidelberg, May 20, 2020.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2020): ‘Aitken’s Law Revised: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in 21st Century Scotland’. GULP (Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, April 02, 2020.

• Weilinghoff, Andreas (2019): ‘Aitken's Law Revised: A large-scale investigation into the Scottish Vowel Length Rule’. Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality - Models, Varieties, Approaches, University of Münster, Germany, February 10, 2019.

BA and MA theses: I have capacities for supervising Bachelor and Master theses. Feel free to contact me.

PhD supervision: Nico Boller (University of Koblenz) & Saran Nair (University of Koblenz)

Summer semester 2026:

M2 - Ü - Oral Skills (British English) Group 3
M4 - S - Varieties of English Group 4
M6 - S - English Lexicogrammar and Machine Translation
M13 - S - Modern Scotland: Linguistic and Literary Perspectives (interdisciplinary seminar with Prof. Dr. Silke Stroh)

Conference organization: ICAME47: A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI

Winter semester 2025-2026:

M1 - V - Introduction to English Linguistics
M8 - S - Linguistic Analysis for the Classroom (in cooperation with the Studienseminar Koblenz)

Summer semester 2025:

M8 - S - Linguistic Analysis for the Classroom (in cooperation with the Studienseminar Koblenz)
M13 - S - Computational and Corpus Linguistics

Winter semester 2024-2025:

M2 - V - Oral skills - Lecture - British and American English
M2 - Ü - Oral skills (British English) Group 1
M13 - S - English Sociolinguistics
Workshop - From Data to Insights: Introduction to Statistics with R

Summer semester 2024:

M2 - V - Oral skills - Lecture - British and American English
M2 - Ü - Oral skills (British English) Group 1
M2 - Ü - Oral skills (British English) Group 2
M6 - S - English Syntax

Winter semester 2023-2024:

M2 - Ü - Oral skills (British English)
M13 - S - Intersections between Linguistics and AI
Workshop - Spracherkennung für Lehre und Forschung mit Whisper. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Lehre

Summer semester 2023:

M4 - S - Varieties of English.