2016 - 2023: PhD in English Linguistics
University of Münster
Title: Standard English in Trinidadian secondary schools: Accent variation and attitudes
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber & Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut
Graduate School for Empirical and Applied Linguistics
Grade: summa cum laude
2019 – 2023: Visiting Researcher
University of Campinas, Brazil
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Plínio A. Barbosa
Speech Prosody Studies Group, Institute of Language Studies
2014 – 2016: Master of Education (English and Social Sciences), University of Münster
2011 – 2014: Bachelor of Arts (English and Political Science), University of Münster
2013 – 2014: Exchange Student (English and Political Science), Hastings College, Nebraska (USA)
2023 – Now: Research Associate (Postdoc), Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut), English Department, University of Münster
2020 – 2023: Research Assistant (Predoc), Chair of Variation Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber), English Department, University Münster
2016 – 2020: Research Assistant (Predoc), Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut), English Department, University of Münster
2024: International Phonetic Association (IPA) PhD Thesis Award Competition Finalist
2019: International Phonetic Association (IPA) Student Award
2017: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Graduate Award
2025 Research visit in the context of EU-funded CIRCE project, International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2017: Short-term data collection for the ICE-Scotland corpus in Glasgow
2016: Short-term data collection for the ICE-Scotland corpus in Glasgow
2016: Field research in Trinidad (funded by DFG, project no.: DE 2324/1-1)
2015 Field research in Trinidad (funded by DFG, project no.: DE 2324/1-1)
2027: Conference: Member of the Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2027 in São Paulo, Brazil
2025: Workshop: When linguistics meets English language education: Classroom Linguistics in Germany. Anglistiktag, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (with Katharina v. Elbwart)
2025: 2nd special interest group meeting: Classroom Linguistics. University of Paderborn (with Katharina v. Elbwart)
2024: Workshop: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions. BICLCE 2024 – 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), University of Alicante, Spain (with Ulrike Gut)
2023: Inaugural special interest group meeting: Classroom Linguistics. University of Münster (with Katharina v. Elbwart)
2020: Panel: Sociophonetic research in the Caribbean: New perspectives and (digital) initiatives. SCL 2020 - 23rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. [canceled due to COVID-19]
2019: Network meeting: Global Englishes in ELT in Germany. University of Münster (with Michael Westphal)
2019: Workshop: Global Englishes and challenges for English language teaching and teacher education in higher education in Germany. 7th Bremen Symposium on language learning and teaching at universities. University of Bremen, Germany (with Stefanie Hehner, Marcus Callies, Michael Westphal)
2019: Conference: Plur 2019 – International Conference on Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality - Models, Varieties, Approaches. University of Münster (with Ryan Durgasingh)
2018: Workshop: Language Attitude Research in the Caribbean, University of Münster (with Michael Westphal)
Journals: Laboratory Phonology, English World-Wide, Journal of Speech Sciences, Asian Englishes, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, RELC Journal, English Today, Languages, Grundschule Englisch, Language Development Research (requested), Linguistics Vanguard (requested), SAGE Open (requested), Journal of Language and Education (requested), Applied Linguistics (requested)
Chapters: Oxford University Press, Springer, Edinburgh University Press, Brill, Bloomsbury, Routledge (requested), De Gruyter (requested), Language Science Press (requested)
Agencies: DAAD, ISCA (Interspeech), Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Ed. Board: Revista Intercâmbio de Linguística Aplicada
Gayete Domínguez, Gema. 2025. Attitudes towards Languages and Multilingualism: The Impact of Multilingual Instruction, Age and Gender. Jaume I University, Spain
BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG
BAAL Language in Africa SIG
Classroom Linguistics (SIG; co-founded with K. Elbwart)
Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
Brazil Center, University of Münster
Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), University of Münster
Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS)
Education, Languages and Internationalisation Network (ELINET)
Global Englishes in ELT in Germany (network; co-founded with M. Callies, S. Hehner, M. Westphal)
International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
International Phonetic Association (IPA)
International Society of the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
Learner Corpus Association
Society of Caribbean Linguistics (SCL)
Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
New Englishes, New Methods (NENM, DFG scientific network)
World Englishes in NRW (WEiN, network)
Anglistikverband
Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
2025: Interview with taz – Die Tageszeitung journalist on accent attitudes and accent prejudice. Published article: https://taz.de/Akzente-und-Rassismus/!6077687/
2025: Co-Host of CIRCE Online Seminar Series on Language and Accent Discrimination
Used frequently
Phonetics: Praat (Interface & Scripts), FAVE (aligner & vowel extraction), Audacity, various (Shiny) Apps (in R) for sociophonetic research (e.g. NORM, Visible Vowels), DARLA (automatic speech recognition, aligner, vowel extraction)
Statistics: SPSS (Interface & Syntax)
Corpus building: ELAN
Graphics: Graphpad Prism, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator (Phonetics: Praat, NORM, Visible Vowels)
General: Microsoft Office, Citavi
Corpus/text analysis: BYU corpora
Used occasionally
Phonetics: BAS Web Services (e.g. automatic speech recognition, MAUS aligner, chunker, pipelines)
Statistics: Graphpad Prism, Language Variation Suite, R & Rbrul
Corpus building: Pacx
Qualitative content analysis: MAXQDA
Surveys: SoSciSurvey
Corpus/text analysis: WordSmith, AntConc, Sketch Enginge
Programming: Python
Developed
Phonetics: TRINI-FAVE (with José A. Matute Flores)
German, English, Portuguese, French, Latin (in descending order of proficiency)