Dr. Philipp Meer

Current affiliations

  • Professur für Englische Sprachwissenschaft (Prof. Gut)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Varieties of English World-Wide
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Sociophonetics
  • Acoustic Phonetics
  • Speech Prosody
  • Language Attitudes and Ideologies
  • Language in Education
  • World Englishes in English Language Teaching
  • Corpus Phonology/Corpus Linguistics

Academic Education

since 06/2023Postdoc in English Linguistics, University of Münster
10/2019 - 06/2023Sandwich PhD / Doutorado Sanduíche, Speech Prosody Studies Group, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
10/2016 - 06/2023PhD student in English Linguistics, University of Münster
10/2014 - 08/2016M.Ed. English & Social Sciences, University of Münster
10/2011 - 08/2014B.A. English & Political Science, University of Münster
08/2013 - 01/2014Exchange Student at Hastings College, Nebraska, USA

Work Experience

since 05/2023Research Associate (Postdoc), Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut), University of Münster
02/2020 - 08/2023Research Assistant, Chair of Variation Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber), University of Münster
10/2016 - 07/2020Research Assistant, Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut), University of Münster
04/2015 - 09/2016Student Research Assistant, Chair of Variation Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber), University of Münster

Functions and Memberships

since 2023Member, Teaching English & Teaching In English in Global Contexts
since 2023Co-founder, Classroom Linguistics (Special Interest Group)
since 2023Member, Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
since 2021Member, European COST Action: Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME) - Working Groups 6 & 8
since 2019Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
since 2019Learner Corpus Association
since 2019International Phonetic Association (IPA)
since 2019 International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
since 2018Global Englishes in ELT in Germany
since 2017World Englishes in NRW (WEiN)
since 2016Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL)
since 2015International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

Publications

Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan; (eds.) (2024)
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan (2024)
In: Bolton, Kinglsley (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Meer, Philipp (2024)
In: Schmalz, Mirjam; Vida-Mannl, Manuela; Buschfeld, Sarah; Brato, Thorsten (eds.), Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Meer, Philipp; Schmalz, Mirjam (eds.) (2023)
In: World Englishes, 42(1)
Type of Publication: Special issue of a journal
Schmalz, Mirjam; Meer, Philipp (2023)
In: World Englishes, 42(1)
Type of Publication: Bibliography (journal)
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Projects

Duration: 31/12/2022 - 30/12/2025
Funded by: EC - Lifelong Learning Programme: Erasmus+
Type of project: EU-project hosted outside University of Münster
Duration: 16/01/2020 - 28/02/2026 | 2nd Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 08/02/2019 - 10/02/2019
Funded by: Participation / conference fees
Type of project: Scientific Event

Talks

Global Englishes in Language Teaching
Westphal, Michael; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp (25/09/2021)
Online Sprachentag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprachen M-V, Germany
Type of talk: scientific talk
An acoustic study of /s/-retraction in Trinidadian English
Meer, Philipp; Ahlers, Wiebke (28/09/2019)
BICLCE 2019 - 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Bamberg, Germany
Type of talk: scientific talk
Rhotics in Scottish Standard English
Meer, Philipp; Fuchs, Robert; Gerfer, Anika; Gut, Ulrike; Li, Zeyu (28/09/2019)
BICLCE 2019 - 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Bamberg
Type of talk: scientific talk
Vocalic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals
Westphal, Michael; Hartmann, Johanna; Deuber, Dagmar; Lau, Kan Man; Meer, Philipp (27/09/2019)
BICLCE 2019 - 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Bamberg, Germany
Type of talk: scientific talk
Sibilant variation in New Englishes: A comparative sociophonetic study of Trinidadian and American English /s(tr)/-retraction
Ahlers, Wiebke; Meer, Philipp (16/09/2019)
INTERSPEECH 2019 - 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Graz, Austria
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Prizes

GAPS Graduate Award
Awarded by: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Award given to: Meer, Philipp
Announced at: 27/05/2017 | Date of awarding: 15/05/2017
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
IPA Student Award
Awarded by: International Phonetic Association (IPA)
Award given to: Meer, Philipp
Announced at: 01/01/2019
Type of distinction: Scholarship

Doctorates

Standard English in Trinidadian Secondary Schools: Accent Variation and Attitudes
Candidate: Meer, Philipp | Supervisors: Deuber, Dagmar; Gut, Ulrike | Reviewers: Deuber, Dagmar; Gut, Ulrike
Period of time: 01/10/2016 - 07/06/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster