Dr Andreas Weilinghoff is junior professor of English Linguistics at the University of Koblenz.

His research has a strong quantitative and empirical orientation. Specific research interests lie in the fields of phonetics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. One of Dr Weilinghoff’s goals is to make the latest technology accessible for teaching and research. A particular example is the Whisper server which is accessible to all members of the University of Koblenz.

Positions and memberships:

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

• Member of the Departmental Governing Body (Leitungskollegium)

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

• Associated researcher in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern

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

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

• Chair of the organizing committee of ICAME47

You can find more information about Dr Weilinghoff on his private website.

Research interests:

• Phonetics and Phonology

• Sociophonetics

• Sociolinguistics

• Corpus Linguistics

• Computational Linguistics

• Automatic Speech Recognition and Forced Alignment

• Scottish English

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. In print. "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.

• 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.

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)

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

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.