Research

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.


Latest and forthcoming publications:

  • Weilinghoff, Andreas. Accepted. Vowel duration patterns in Scottish English: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in the 21st century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • 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, 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
  • 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, 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. 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.

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


Talks:

  • 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.