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[A 8] Sayers, D., Glass, M., Kelly-Holmes, H., & Fuchs, Robert (in press). Language in the Human-Machine Era: New technologies and the coming transformation of language. Boston, MA: MIT University Press.
[A 7] Fuchs, Robert (ed). 2023. Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English. Singapore: Springer.
[A 6] Suárez-Gómez, Cristina, Lucía Loureiro Porto and Robert Fuchs (eds.). 2020. World Englishes and Grammatical variation. Special issue of World Englishes 39(3).
[A 5] Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.). 2020. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Benjamins [Reissue of A4 as edited volume].
Reviewed by Yukio Tono, Research in Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 8(2)
[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.
Reviewed by David Deterding, English Language & Linguistics, Vol. 22(3); Shuangshuang Lu, English Today, Vol. 34(1); Jane Setter, International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 17(1); Eivind Nessa Torgersen, Nordic Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16(3)
[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).
[B 26] Gagua, Mariam, Lisa-Christine Altendorf, Christina Nelson, Philipp Meer and Robert Fuchs. From love to mate: Recent diachronic change in affiliative vocatives in British English. Under review with World Englishes.
[B 25] Coats, Steven, Cameron Morin, Alessandro Basile and Robert Fuchs. Fine-Tuning ASR for Corpus Linguistics: Singapore English. Under review with Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
[B 24] Fuchs, Robert, Philipp Meer, Tjorven Halves, Lisa-Christine Altendorf, Jean Antunes, Amna Brdarevic-Celjo, Silvia Calamai, Lili Cavalheiro, Vildana Dubravac, Luís Guerra, Phillip Köhler, Frauke Matz, Laura Melgão, Rosalba Nodari, Julia Schilling, Ricardo Jaime da Silva Pereira, Claudia Soria, Bethany Stoddard and Karoline Wirbatz. Attitudes toward Englishes in European schools: Evidence from a large-scale, cross-national study. Under review with System.
[B 23] Meer, Philipp, Robert Fuchs, Lena Hertzel, Jean Antunes, Amna Brdarević-Čeljo, Giorgio Carella, Lili Cavalheiro, Letizia Cirillo, Vildana Dubravac, Ginevra Galilei, Luis Guerra, Phillip Köhler, Frauke Matz, Souzana Maria Serveta and Karoline Wirbatz . Representations of Global Englishes in ELT textbooks in Europe: A comparative analysis from four countries. Under review with RELC Journal.
[B 22] Schilling, Julia and Robert Fuchs. Viral Metaphors: A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Discourse on Twitter and in British Newspaper. Under revision with Metaphor & Symbol.
[B 21] Schilling, Julia, Esra Bayindir, Robert Fuchs and Jonas Schreyögg. The Impact of Public Discourse on Health Care Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Under review with Scientific Reports.
[B 20] Fuchs, Robert, Xinyue Yao, Peter Collins and Adam Smith. 2025/to appear. Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study. Lingua 322 (103948).
[B 19] Coats, Steven, Carmelo Alessandro Basile, Cameron Morin and Robert Fuchs. 2025. The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts. English World-Wide 46(3), 274-298.
[B 18] Meer, Philipp, Robert Fuchs, Dagmar Deuber, Véronique Lacoste and Eva Canan Hänsel. 2023. Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad. English World-Wide 42(1), 48-72. (Preprint)
[B 17] Meer, Philipp and Robert Fuchs. 2022. The Trini Sing-Song: Sociophonetic variation in Trinidadian English prosody and differences to other varieties. Language and Speech 65(4), 923-957. [Praat script to measure pitch level, range and dynamism]
[B 16] Meer, Philipp, Robert Fuchs, Anika Gerfer, Ulrike Gut and Zeyu Li. 2021. Rhotics in Standard Scottish English. English World-Wide 42(2), 121-144.
[B 15] Fuchs, Robert and Ariane Macalinga Borlongan. 2021. Recent Diachronic Change in the Perfect-Past Alternation in Two Asian Englishes: Endonormativity vs. Americanisation. Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 32(1), 65-89.
[B 14] Rautionaho, Paula and Robert Fuchs. 2021. Recent change in stative progressives: A collostructional investigation of British English in 1994 and 2014. English Language & Linguistics 25(1), 35-60.
[B 13] Fuchs, Robert. 2020. The progressive in 19th and 20th century settler and indigenous Indian English. World Englishes 39(3): 394-410.
[B 12] Stell, Gerald and Robert Fuchs. 2019. Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties: A preliminary analysis of Namibian English vowel systems. English World-Wide 40(2), 144-169.
[B 11] Parviainen, Hanna and Robert Fuchs. 2019. ‘I don’t get time only’: an apparent-time investigation of clause-final focus particles in Asian Englishes. Asian Englishes 21(3): 285-304.
[B 10] Edwards, Alison and Robert Fuchs. 2018. A cluster-analysis of attitudes to English in the Netherlands and Germany. World Englishes 37(4): 653-667.
[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.
[C 24] Fuchs, Robert. 2026/to appear. Duration-based and acoustic speech rhythm metrics. In Meyer, Lars & Antje Strauss, eds. Rhythms of Speech and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 553-565.
[C 23] Lange, Claudia & Robert Fuchs. 2026/to appear. English in India. In Hickey, Raymond & Kate Burridge, eds. New Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[C 22] Fuchs, Robert, Caroline Wiltshire & Priyankoo Sarmah. 2025. The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India. In Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein & Manuela Vida-Mannl, eds. World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 291-316.
[C 21] Fuchs, Robert. 2025. Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide. In Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 135-154. (Preprint)
[C 20] Fuchs, Robert. 2023. Rhythm Metrics and the Perception of Rhythmicity in Varieties of English as a Second Language. In Fuchs, Robert (ed.), Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English. Singapore: Springer, 187-210.
[C 19] Fuchs, Robert. 2023. Colonial lag or feature retention in postcolonial varieties of English. The negative scalar conjunction “and that too” in South Asian Englishes and beyond. In Rautionaho, Paula, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto & Arja Nurmi, eds. Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes: Local and Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, 123-148. (Preprint)
[C 18] Fuchs, Robert. 2023. Analysing the speech rhythm of New Englishes: A guide to researchers and a case study on Pakistani, Philippine, Nigerian and British English. In Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal, eds. New Englishes, New Methods. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 132-155. (Preprint)
[C 17] Fuchs, Robert. 2023. Spelling and punctuation. In Borlongan, Ariane Macalinga, ed. Philippine English: Development, Structure, and Sociology of English in the Philippines. London: Routledge, 113-122.
[C 16] Fuchs, Robert. 2021. Sociolinguistic variation in intensifier usage in Indian and British English: Gender and language in the Inner and Outer Circle. In Tobias Bernaisch, ed. Gender in World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47-68.
[C 15] Werner Valentin, Robert Fuchs & Sandra Götz. 2021. L1 influence vs. universal learning mechanisms: An SLA-driven corpus study on temporal expression. In Le Bruyn, Bert & Magali Paquot, eds. Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 39-66.
[C 14] Fuchs, Robert. 2021. Hong Kong English: Structural features and future prospects. In Siemund, Peter & Jakob Leimgruber, eds. Multilingual Global Cities: Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai. London: Routledge, 285-302.
[C 13] Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner. 2020. The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context – myth vs. (corpus) reality. In Fuchs, Robert & Valentin Werner, eds. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 53-82 [Reprint of B9 in edited volume].
[C 12] Edwards, Alison and Robert Fuchs. 2020. Varieties of English in the Netherlands and Germany. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.). English in the German-Speaking World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 267-293.
[C 11] Götz, Sandra, Valentin Werner & Robert Fuchs. 2019. Temporal adverbials in the acquisition of past-time reference: A cross-sectional study of L1 German and Cantonese learners of English. In Abel, Andrea, Aivars Glaznieks, Verena Lyding & Lionel Nicholas, eds. Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presse universitaires de Louvain, 43-70.
[C 10] Fuchs, Robert, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut. 2019. 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, 37-69.
[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.
[D 7] Fuchs, Robert. 2023. A Synthesis of Research on Speech Rhythm in Native, Learner and Second Language Varieties of English – Introduction to the Volume. In Fuchs, Robert (ed.), Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English. Singapore: Springer, 1-14.
[D 6] Sayers, Dave, Rui Sousa-Silva, Sviatlana Höhn, ..., Robert Fuchs, et al. 2021. The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies. Report for EU COST Action CA19102 ‘Language in The Human-Machine Era’.
[D 5] Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner. 2020. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research. In Fuchs, Robert & Valentin Werner, eds. Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-21 [Reprint of D3 in edited volume].
[D 4] Suárez‐Gómez, Cristina, Lucía Loureiro‐Porto and Robert Fuchs. 2020. World Englishes and grammatical variation. Introduction to the special issue. World Englishes 39(3), 370-6.
[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.
[E 17] Meer, Philipp, Ronald Francis and Robert Fuchs. 2024. Lexical stress perception by Trinidadian English listeners. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, 309–313.
[E 16] Chan, Hoi Ling & Robert Fuchs. 2023. Revisiting the vowels of Hong Kong English - the post-handover generation. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague.
[E 15] Payne, Elinor, Olga Maxwell, Robert Fuchs and Yizhou Wang. 2023. Lexical Stress Perception in Indian Englishes. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague.
[E 14] Maxwell, Olga and Robert Fuchs. 2019. Cross-dialectal speech processing: perception of lexical stress by Indian English listeners. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, 2710-2714.
[E 13] Meer, Philipp and Robert Fuchs. 2019. Pitch level, range and dynamism in Trinidadian English: A comparative study with other varieties of English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, 329-333.
[E 12] Fuchs, Robert. 2019. Almost [w]anishing: The elusive /v/-/w/ contrast in Educated Indian English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, 1382-1386.
[E 11] Jamakovic, Nisad and Robert Fuchs. 2019. The Monophthongs of Formal Nigerian English: An Acoustic Analysis. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, Graz, 1711-1715.
[E 10] Dyrenko, Natalia and Robert Fuchs. 2018. The Diphthongs of Formal Nigerian English: A Preliminary Acoustic Analysis. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, 2563-2567.
[E 9] 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.
[E 8] 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.
[E 7] 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 the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2016, 435-9.
[E 5] Fuchs, Robert and Olga Maxwell. 2016. The effects of mp3 compression on the measurement of fundamental frequency. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2016, 523-7.
[E 4] Fuchs, Robert. 2015. Word-initial glottal stop insertion, hiatus resolution and linking in British English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany, 1675-9.
[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.