Publications

Most of my papers are available at https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs If you can't access them, let me know: robert.fuchs (at) uni-hamburg.de

Monographs, edited volumes and editing of journal special issues

[A 6] Suárez-Gómez, Cristina, Lucía Loureiro Porto and Robert Fuchs (eds.). Confirmed. World Englishes and Grammatical variation. Special issue of World Englishes.

[A 5] Fuchs, Robert, ed. Under contract. Speech Rhythm in L2 and L3 Varieties of English. Singapore: Springer.

[A 4] Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.). 2018. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Special issue of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4(2).

[A 3] Nelson, Gerry, Robert Fuchs and Ulrike Gut (eds.). 2017. Symposium on World Englishes and the International Corpus of English (ICE) Project. Special issue of World Englishes 36(3).

[A 2] Fuchs, Robert. 2016. Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English. Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English. Singapore: Springer.

[A 1] Gut, Ulrike, Robert Fuchs and Eva-Maria Wunder, eds. 2015. Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology? Bridging the Gap between Research on Phonological Acquisition of English as a Second, Third or Foreign Language. Berlin: de Gruyter (Topics in English Linguistics).

Articles in journals (peer-reviewed)

[B 13] Fuchs, Robert. Under revision. The acquisition of the /w/-/v/ contrast by German-speaking learners of English - A case of category goodness assimilation.

[B 12] Edwards, Alison and Robert Fuchs. To appear. A cluster-analysis of attitudes to English in the Netherlands and Germany. World Englishes.

[B 11] Stell, Gerald and Robert Fuchs. To appear. Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties: A preliminary analysis of Namibian English vowel systems. English World-Wide 40(3).

[B 10] Parviainen, Hanna and Robert Fuchs. To appear. Indian English as a super-central variety: Diffusion of clause-final focus particles in Asian Englishes. Asian Englishes.

[B 9] Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner. 2018. The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context – myth vs. (corpus) reality. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4(2): 195-224.

[B 8] Fuchs, Robert. 2017. The Americanisation of Philippine English. Recent diachronic change in spelling and lexis. Philippine ESL Journal 19(1): 60-83.

[B 7] Fuchs, Robert. 2017. Do women use more intensifiers than men? Recent change in the sociolinguistics of intensifiers in British English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22(3): 345-374.

[B 6] Gut, Ulrike and Robert Fuchs. 2017. Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora. World Englishes 36(3): 387-403.

[B 5] Werner, Valentin and Robert Fuchs. 2017. The present perfect in Nigerian English. English Language and Linguistics 21(1): 129-153.

[B 4] Davies, Mark and Robert Fuchs. 2015. Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Word Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE). English World-Wide 36(1), 1-28.

[B 3] Fuchs, Robert, Ulrike Gut and Taiwo Soneye. 2013. ‘“We just don’t even know”: The usage of the pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English.’ English World-Wide 34(2): 123-145.

[B 2] Gut, Ulrike and Robert Fuchs. 2013. Progressive aspect in Nigerian English. Journal of English Linguistics 41(3): 243-267.

[B 1] Fuchs, Robert. 2012. Focus marking and semantic transfer in Indian English: the case of 'also'. English World-Wide 33(1): 27-53.

Articles in edited volumes (peer-reviewed)

[C 11] Fuchs, Robert, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut. To appear. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction. In Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia, eds. Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

[C 10] Edwards, Alison and Robert Fuchs. To appear. Endonormative varieties of English in the Netherlands and Germany: A comparative analysis of acceptance rates. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.). English in Germany (working title). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[C 9] Fuchs, Robert. 2018. The phonology of English. In Hewings, Ann, Philip Seargeant and Stephen Pihlaja, eds. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 121-135.

[C 8] Schützler, Ole, Ulrike Gut and Robert Fuchs. 2017. New perspectives on Scottish Standard English: Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English. In Beal, Joan and Sylvie Hancil (eds.). Perspectives on Northern Englishes. Berlin: de Gruyter, 273-302.

[C 7] Fuchs, Robert. 2016. The frequency of the present perfect in varieties of English around the World. In Werner, Valentin, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: de Gruyter, 223-258.

[C 6] Fuchs, Robert, Sandra Götz and Valentin Werner. 2016. The present perfect in learner Englishes: A corpus-based case study on L1 German intermediate and advanced speech and writing. In Werner, Valentin, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: de Gruyter, 297-337.

[C 5] Fuchs, Robert and Ulrike Gut. 2016. Register variation in intensifier usage across Asian Englishes. In Pichler, Heike, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change: Insights from English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 185-210.

[C 4] Fuchs, Robert and Ulrike Gut. 2015. An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English. In Collins, Peter, ed. Grammatical Change in English World-Wide. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 373-387.

[C 3] Fuchs, Robert and Eva-Maria Wunder. 2015. A sonority-based account of speech rhythm in Chinese learners of English. In Gut, Ulrike, Robert Fuchs and Eva-Maria Wunder, eds. Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology? Bridging the Gap between Research on Phonological Acquisition of English as a Second, Third or Foreign Language. Berlin: de Gruyter, 165-183.

[C 2] Fuchs, Robert. 2015. You're not from around here, are you? A dialect discrimination experiment with speakers of of British and Indian English. In Delais-Roussarie, Elisabeth, Mathieu Avanzi and Sophie Herment, eds. Prosody and Language in Contact. Berlin: Springer, 123-148.

[C 1] Fuchs, Robert. 2014. You got the beat: Rhythm and timing. In Raphael Monroy-Casas and Inmaculada de Jesus Arboleda Guirao, eds. Readings in English Phonetics and Phonology. Valencia: IULMA-UV, 165-188.

Articles in journals and edited volumes (not peer-reviewed)

[D 3] Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner. 2018. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research: Introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4(2), 143-163.

[D 2] Davies, Mark and Robert Fuchs. 2015. Reply to the responses to 'Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Word Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE)'. English World-Wide 36(1), 45-47.

[D 1] Gut, Ulrike, Robert Fuchs and Eva-Maria Wunder. 2015. Introduction. In Gut, Ulrike, Robert Fuchs und Eva-Maria Wunder, eds. Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology? Bridging the Gap between Research on Phonological Acquisition of English as a Second, Third or Foreign Language. Berlin: de Gruyter,1-8.

Conference proceedings

[E10] Dyrenko, Natalia and Robert Fuchs. 2018. The Diphthongs of Formal Nigerian English: A Preliminary Acoustic Analysis. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, 2563-2567.

[E9] Fuchs, Robert. 2018. Pitch Range, Dynamism and Level in Postcolonial Varieties of English: A Comparison of Educated Indian English and British English. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 893-897.

[E8] Puga, Karin, Robert Fuchs, Toby Hudson, Jane Setter and Peggy Mok. 2018. The Perception-Production Link in Intonation: Evidence from German Learners of English. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 685-689.

[E7] Puga, Karin, Robert Fuchs, Jane Setter and Peggy Mok. 2017. The Perception of English Intonation Patterns by German L2 speakers of English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, 3241-5.

[E 6] Fuchs, Robert. 2016. The acoustic correlates of stress and accent in English content and function words. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016.

[E 5] Fuchs, Robert and Olga Maxwell. 2016. The effects of mp3 compression on the measurement of fundamental frequency. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016.

[E 4] Fuchs, Robert. 2015. Word-initial glottal stop insertion, hiatus resolution and linking in British English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany.

[E 3] Fuchs, Robert and Olga Maxwell. 2015. The placement and acoustic realisation of primary and secondary stress in Indian English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow.

[E 2] Fuchs, Robert. 2014. Integrating variability in loudness and duration in a multidimensional model of speech rhythm: Evidence from Indian English and British English. In Campbell, Nick, Dafydd Gibbon and Daniel Hirst, eds. Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 290-294. Dublin.

[E 1] Fuchs, Robert. 2014. Towards a perceptual model of speech rhythm: Integrating the influence of f0 on perceived duration. In Li, Haizhou, Helen Meng, Ma Bin, Eng Siong Chng and Lei Xie, eds. Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, Singapore, 1949-1953.