Publications

Most of my papers can be found on my Research Gate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philipp-Meer

Feel free to drop me an email if you don't have access: philipp.meer [at] uni-muenster.de

Books

Monographs

1. Meer, Philipp. (under contract). Trinidadian English: Sociophonetic variation and perception in secondary schools. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2. Meer, Philipp. (2023). Standard English in Trinidadian secondary schools: Accent variation and attitudes (PhD dissertation). University of Münster, Germany. https://doi.org/10.17879/18988575787

Edited Volumes / Special Issues

1. Meer, Philipp; Gut, Ulrike (Eds.) (under contract). English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current approaches and future directions. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2. Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan (Eds.) (2025). Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, variation, and standards. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.32

3. Meer, Philipp; Schmalz, Mirjam (Eds.). (2023). Englishes of the Caribbean. World Englishes, 42(1). Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12616

4. Callies, Marcus; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp; Westphal, Michael (Eds.). (2021). Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090106

Articles

Articles in Journals (peer-reviewed)

1. Lenhardt, Lena L.; Meer, Philipp. (2025). Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students. English Today. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026607842510059X

2. Gut, Ulrike, Meer, Philipp. (2025). Consonant clusters in Nigerian English. World Englishes. Online First. (Special Issue on English in Nigeria). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12731

3. Li, Zeyu; Gut, Ulrike; Meer, Philipp. (2025). Co-variation of phonological features in Standardized Scottish English. World Englishes, 44(1-2): 95-107. (Special Issue: World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Variation). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12692

4. Meer, Philipp; Fuchs, Robert; Deuber, Dagmar; Lacoste, Véronique, Hänsel, Eva Canan. (2023). Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad. World Englishes, 42(1): 48-72. (Special Issue: Englishes of the Caribbean). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12615

5. Hänsel, Eva C.; Meer, Philipp. (2023). Comparing attitudes toward Caribbean, British, and American accents in Trinidad & Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States. World Englishes, 42(1): 130-149.  (Special Issue: Englishes of the Caribbean). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12618

6. Hänsel, Eva Canan; Westphal, Michael; Meer, Philipp; Deuber, Dagmar. (2022). Context matters: Grenadian students' attitudes towards newscasters' and teachers' accents. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37(1): 16-52. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00085.han

7. Meer, Philipp; Hartmann, Johanna; Rumlich, Dominik. (2022). Attitudes of German high school students toward different varieties of English. Applied Linguistics, 43(3): 538-562. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab046

8. Meer, Philipp; Fuchs, Robert. (2022). The Trini Sing-Song: Sociophonetic variation in Trinidadian English prosody and differences to other varieties. Language and Speech, 65(4): 923-957. (Special Issue: Sociolectal and dialectal variability in prosody). https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830921998404

9. Meer, Philipp; Fuchs, Robert; Gerfer, Anika; Gut, Ulrike; Li, Zeyu. (2021). Rhotics in Standard Scottish English. English World-Wide, 42(2): 121-144. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00070.mee

10. Meer, Philipp; Hartmann, Johanna; Rumlich, Dominik. (2021). Folklinguistic perceptions of Global Englishes among German learners of English. European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9(2): 391-416. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2020-0014

11. Meer, Philipp; Brato, Thorsten; Matute Flores, José A. (2021). Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes: A comparison of different methods. English World-Wide, 42(1): 54-84. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00060.mee

12. Meer, Philipp. (2020). Automatic alignment for New Englishes: Applying state-of-the-art aligners to Trinidadian English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4): 2283-2294. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001069

13. Meer, Philipp; Westphal, Michael; Hänsel, Eva Canan; Deuber, Dagmar. (2019). Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 34(1): 83-125. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee

Articles in Edited Volumes (peer-reviewed)

1. Meer, Philipp. (under review). (th)-variation in Nigerian English. A large-scale corpus phonetic study. In English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current approaches and future directions, edited by Meer, Philipp; Gut, Ulrike. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2. Francis, Ronald; Meer, Philipp. (under review). Crosslinguistic influence vs. simplification in L2 English morphosyntax: A comparative analysis of St. Lucian and German learner writing. In Language and Linguistics in Education, edited by De Lisser, Tamirand. Berlin: Language Science Press.

3. Gut, Ulrike; Meer, Philipp. (under review). The NURSE-DRESS merger in Nigerian and Ghanaian English: A corpus-based, multifactorial acoustic study. In Juggling intra- and extralinguistic factors in the study of variation and change, edited by Werner, Valentin; Schützler, Ole; Schlüter, Julia; Knappe, Gabriele; Sönning, Lukas; Vetter, Fabian. Berlin: De Gruyter.

4. Meer, Philipp; Schmalz, Mirjam. (accepted). The role of Global Englishes in high school curricula in Switzerland. In Advances in Global Englishes Language Teaching: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, edited by Reckermann, Julia; Römhild, Ricardo. London: Bloomsbury.

5. Hackert, Stephanie; Meer, Philipp. (accepted). Caribbean Englishes and American linguistic influence. In The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean English, edited by Stephanie Hackert. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

6. Schneider, Britta; Migge, Bettina; Meer, Philipp et al. (in press). Normative concepts of language in the human-machine era: Observations, thoughts, and perspectives. In Language in the Human-Machine Era: New Technologies and the Coming Transformation of Language, edited by Sayers, Dave; Kelly-Holmes, Helen; Fuchs, Robert. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

7. Lind, Miriam; Dippold, Doris; Barbu Mititelu, Verginica; Beňuš, Štefan; Liebeskind, Chaya; Meer, Philipp; Oleskeviciene, Giedre Valunaite; Schaub, Steffen; Shakir, Muhammad; Vallentin, Rita. (in press). Language variation and change, interaction, and pragmatics. In Language in the Human-Machine Era: New Technologies and the Coming Transformation of Language, edited by Sayers, Dave; Kelly-Holmes, Helen; Fuchs, Robert. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

8. Jackson, Samantha; Meer, Philipp; Schmalz, Mirjam. (2025). English and Creole in Trinidad and Tobago. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes, edited by Kingsley Bolton. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00291

9. Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan. (2025). Caribbean Creoles and Englishes: Sociophonetic and morphosyntactic variation. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes, edited by Kingsley Bolton. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00294

10. Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan. (2025). Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality, the debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity. In Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, edited by Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.32.01mee

11. Durgasingh, Ryan; Meer, Philipp. (2025). Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarity. In Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, edited by Meer, Philipp; Durgasingh, Ryan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.32.09dur

12. Meer, Philipp. (2024). Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adolescent and adult speakers. In Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches, edited by Brato, Thorsten; Buschfeld, Sarah; Schmalz, Mirjam. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733723-013

13. Römhild, Ricardo; Meer, Philipp. (2023). Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Language Education: Current trajectories and alternative perspectives. In Rethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education, edited by Römhild, Ricardo; Marxl, Anika; Matz, Frauke; Siepmann, Philipp. Trier: wvt.

14. Meer, Philipp. (2021). Global Englishes in the secondary school curriculum in Germany: A comparative analysis of the English language curricula of the federal states. In Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany, edited by Callies, Marcus; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp; Westphal, Michael, 85-103. London Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090106-8

15. Hölscher, Verena; Meer, Philipp. (2021). Global Englishes in the second phase of teacher education in Germany: Teacher educators’ perspectives on ELT and teacher education. In Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany, edited by Callies, Marcus; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp; Westphal, Michael, 28-45. London Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090106-4

16. Meer, Philipp; Deuber, Dagmar. (2020). Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model. In Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes, edited by Buschfeld, Sarah; Kautzsch, Alexander, 274-297. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.003.0013

Conference Articles (peer-reviewed)

1. Meer, Philipp; Francis, Ronald; Fuchs, Robert (2024). Lexical stress perception by Trinidadian English listeners. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-63

2. Silva Jr., Leônidas; Silva; Jackciele; Meer, Philipp (2024). Prosodic aspects of Brazilian L2 English: A comparison of duration-based rhythm and F0 measures with American English, Indian English, and Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings  of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-21

3. Ahlers, Wiebke; Meer, Philipp. (2019). Sibilant variation in New Englishes: A comparative sociophonetic study of Trinidadian and American English /s(tr)/-retraction. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) (pp. 291–295). Graz, Austria. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1821

4. Meer, Philipp; Fuchs, Robert. (2019). Pitch level, range, and dynamism in Trinidadian English: A comparative study with other varieties of English. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) (pp. 329–333). Melbourne, Australia.

Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes (not peer-reviewed)

1. Meer, Philipp; Schmalz, Mirjam. (2023). Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean. World Englishes, 42(1): 2-8. (Special Issue: Englishes of the Caribbean). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12616

2. Schmalz, Mirjam; Meer, Philipp. (2023). Englishes of the Caribbean: A research bibliography. World Englishes, 42(1): 169-183. (Special Issue: Englishes of the Caribbean). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12614

3. Callies, Marcus; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp; Westphal, Michael. (2021). Introduction. Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany. In Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany, edited by Callies, Marcus; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp; Westphal, Michael, 1-6. London Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090106-1

4. Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp; Callies, Marcus; Westphal, Michael. (2021). Global Englishes and challenges for English Language Teaching and teacher education in higher education in Germany. In Rethinking the Language Learner: Paradigmen - Methoden - Disziplinen. 7.Bremer Symposion zum Sprachenlernen und -lehren, edited by Brandt, Anikó; Buschmann-Göbels, Astrid; Harsch, Claudia, 284-292. Bochum: AKS Verlag.

5. Meer, Philipp. (2018). Toward interdisciplinary research-based teaching in linguistics: Integrating students into project-oriented teaching and research practices at the intersection of (applied) English linguistics and TEFL. Satura, 1, 21-26. https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2018-3137

Other Articles

1. Meer, Philipp. (2022). Ideologies and biases in linguistic speech processing tools. In Changing Language Ideological Concepts in the Human-Machine Era: Questions, Themes and Topics, edited by Schneider, Britta; Migge, Bettina, 62-64. LITHME. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25867.36649

2. Meer, Philipp (2021). Select phonetic and phonological features of Caribbean varieties of English: An overview. Open Science Framework (pp.1-6). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Q98AD

Supplementary Materials 

1. Carella, Giorgio; Dubravac, Vildana; Guerra, Luis; ... Meer, Philipp; ... Soria, Claudia. (2023). CIRCE: Counteracting accent dIscrimination pRactiCes in Education. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10085133

2. Fuchs, Robert; Meer, Philipp. (2023). Praat script and R script for pitch variability analysis (parameters: pitch level, range, and dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change, tone rate). Supplementary material. Available at: https://osf.io/qkea5/

3. Meer, Philipp (2021). List of analyzed curricula. Supplementary material for [C3]. Available at: https://osf.io/g8y96/

4. Hölscher, Verena; Meer, Philipp (2021). Interview questionnaire (English/German) and interview excerpts (German). Supplementary material. Available at: https://osf.io/8axrn/

5. Meer, Philipp; Hartmann, Johanna; Rumlich, Dominik (2021). Accent variation in the vocal stimuli. Supplementary material. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab046

6. Fuchs, Robert; Meer, Philipp. (2021). Praat script and R script for analysis of pitch level, range, and dynamism. Supplementary material. Available at: https://osf.io/94dbv/