Talks and Presentations
Invited Talks
[G 10] Lead paper presenter at the 4th Conference of the Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria, May 2024, Ibadan, Nigeria.
[G 9] Invited speaker at the Summer School of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, July 2022, Online.
[G 8] Plenary speaker at the Joint Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference and 21st English in Southeast Asia Conference, March 2022, Online.
[G 7] Plenary speaker at the 6th International Conference of the Linguistics Association of Pakistan, Nov. 2019, Faisalabad.
[G 6] Invited speaker at the New Englishes, New Methods workshop on phonetics and phonology, May 2019, Münster, Germany.
[G 5] Plenary speaker at Current Trends in Linguistics (CuTLi) 2018, 2019 (Hamburg linguistics conference for early career scholars).
[G 4] Invited speaker/faculty at the Learner Corpus Research Summer School on Learner Corpus Research – Theory and practical applications of the Learner Corpus Association, Bremen, August 2018.
[G 3] Guest speaker at the annual workshop of the Changing English (ChangE) research consortium, University of Eastern Finland, June 2016.
[G 2] Workshop on Corpus Linguistics. Graduate School for Empirical and Applied Linguistics, University of Münster, Germany, June 2014.
[G 1] Further invited talks at the Technical University of Dresden (2018), University of Münster (2018), University of Bamberg (2016, 2020), University of Giessen (2016), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (2019), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016, 2017), Hong Kong Baptist University (2016, 2017, 2018), Hyderabad Central University (2013).
Conference and workshop presentations
(only those without proceedings; see publications for those with proceedings)
[H 70] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2023. Media portrayals of COVID-19 in British newspapers: A comparative sentiment analysis. E-Symposium on Computation Politics, Thessaloniki/online.
[H 69] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Spreading like a virus – Discussing COVID-19 in German and English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022, Ghent, Belgium.
[H 68] Fuchs, Robert & Valentin Werner. 2022. A quasi-longitudinal analysis of the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2022), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
[H 67] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Pandem-onium: Identifying keywords and phrases in British COVID-19 Twitter and newspaper discourse. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2022), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
[H 66] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Discursive strategies and polarisation in British COVID-19 Twitter discourse. Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Mainz, Germany.
[H 65] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Viral discourses: COVID-19 discourse in German and English newspapers. British Association of Applied Linguistics. Belfast, United Kingdom.
[H 64] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. A tale of four nations: British COVID-19 Twitter discourse across time and space. British Association of Applied Linguistics. Belfast, United Kingdom.
[H 63] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Media portrayals of COVID-19 in British newspapers: A comparative analysis. 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
[H 62] Fuchs, Robert & Valentin Werner. 2022. Frequency vs. accuracy in the development of tense and aspect in Learner Englishes. 22. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, online.
[H 61] Fuchs, Robert. 2022. The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English. Methods in Dialectology XVII, Mainz, Germany.
[H 60] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Identifying keywords in British COVID-19 Newspaper Discourse. Methods in Dialectology XVII, Mainz, Germany.
[H 59] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Metaphors in British COVID-19 Newspaper Discourse. X International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS X), Seville, Spain.
[H 58] Schilling, Julia, Esra Eren Bayindir, Jonas Schreyögg & Robert Fuchs. 2022. The Impact of Public Discourse on Health Care Utilisation during the COVID-19 Pandemic. DFG Research Conference Pandemics.
[H 57] Schilling, Julia & Robert Fuchs. 2022. Identifying Keywords in German COVID-19 Twitter Discourse. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft,
[H 56] Meer, Philipp & Robert Fuchs. 2021. The Trini Sing-Song: Sociolinguistic effects on prosodic variation in Trinidadian English and differences to other varieties. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021 (PaPE 2021), Barcelona.
[H 55] Werner, Valentin & Robert Fuchs. 2021. Frequency vs. accuracy: A quasi-developmental perspective on tense and aspect in learner Englishes. Corpus Linguistics 2021, Limerick, Ireland.
[H 54] Fuchs, Robert & Paula Rautionaho. 2020. Dynamic uses of stative verbs – Recent change in spoken British English. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2020), digital conference.
[H 53] Fuchs, Robert. 2019. The syntax of Asian English: Substrate influence and models of World Englishes (invited panel presentation). 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference (ESEA), Singapore.
[H 52] Fuchs, Robert. 2019. The future of Hong Kong English. 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference (ESEA), Singapore.
[H 51] Fuchs, Robert & Valentin Werner. 2019. Tense and aspect in learner English: Frequency vs. accuracy. Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2019), Warsaw, Poland.
[H 50] Knepper, Jasmin & Robert Fuchs. 2019. False friends in upper-intermediate and advanced learner language: Evidence from learner corpora. Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2019), Warsaw, Poland.
[H 49] Maxwell, Olga & Robert Fuchs. 2019. Cross-dialectal perception of lexical stress: evidence from Indian English. Experimental Approaches to the Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP 2019), Münster, Germany.
[H 48] Fuchs, Robert. 2019. Sociolinguistic variation in intensifier usage in Indian and British English: the roles of gender, age and formality. Experimental Approaches to the Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP 2019), Münster, Germany.
[H 47] Fuchs, Robert & Valentin Werner. 2019. Tense and aspect across learner Englishes: Frequency vs. accuracy. International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
[H 46] Knepper, Jasmin & Robert Fuchs. 2019. An actual problem? Factors influencing error rate in the use of false friends. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2019), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
[H 45] Fuchs, Robert & Paula Rautionaho. 2019. Recent change in stative progressives: A collostructional investigation of British English in 1994 and 2014. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2019), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
[H 44] Fuchs, Robert & Jasmin Knepper. 2019. False friends in upper-intermediate and advanced learner language: Evidence from learner corpora. Vocab@Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
[H 43] Meer, Philipp, Robert Fuchs, Anika Gerfer Ulrike Gut & Zeyu Li. 2019. Rhotics in Scottish Standard English. 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Bamberg, Germany.
[H 42] Stell, Gerald and Robert Fuchs. 2019. L1 background and ethnicity in postcolonial ESL varieties: The phonetic features of Namibian English vowels. English in Contact 2019, Fukuoka, Japan.
[H 41] Fuchs, Robert. 2018. Recent diachronic change in spelling and lexis in Philippine English. Anglistentag 2018, Bonn, Germany.
[H 40] Lütjohann, Mila, Beke Hansen and Robert Fuchs. 2018. People mustn't need it really: Negated must in spoken British English between 1994 and 2014. International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality (ICEM'18), Madrid, Spain.
[H 39] Werner, Valentin, Robert Fuchs and Sandra Götz. 2018. Cross-linguistic effects vs. universal learning meachanisms? A case study on temporal expression. TaLC 2018: The 13th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference. Cambridge, UK.
[H 38] Fuchs, Robert. 2018. Recent diachronic change in intensification in British English. International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE5), London, UK.
[H 37] Hansen, Beke and Robert Fuchs. 2018. You mustn’t say that – Recent change in the meaning of modal must in spoken British English. International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE5), London, UK.
[H 36] Fuchs, Robert. 2018. Recent diachronic change in the sociolinguistics of amplifiers in spoken British English. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2018), Tampere, Finland.
[H 35] Valentin Werner, Robert Fuchs and Sandra Götz. 2018. Cross-linguistic effects vs. universal learning mechanisms: A corpus-based case study on temporal expression. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2018), Tampere, Finland.
[H 34] Werner, Valentin, Robert Fuchs and Sandra Götz. 2018. Cross-linguistic effects or universal learning mechanisms? A case study on temporal expression. Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 13), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
[H 33] Fuchs, Robert, and Ariane Borlongan. 2017. Recent diachronic change in the use of the present perfect and past tense in Philippine and Indian English. Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tokyo.
[H 32] Fuchs, Robert. 2017. The importance of dialect, age, gender and social class in the sociolinguistics of intensifier usage. Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tokyo.
[H 31] Fuchs, Robert and Alexandra Esimaje. 2017. Enhancing corpus data through perception studies – a look at intensifier strength in British and Nigerian English. ICAME 38, Prague.
[H 30] Fuchs, Robert. 2017. Sociolinguistic variation in intensifier usage in Indian and British English: Gender and language in the Inner and Outer Circle. ICAME 38, Prague.
[H 29] Fuchs, Robert, and Ariane Borlongan. 2016. Recent diachronic change in the use of the present perfect and past tense in Philippine and Indian English. International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 4), Poznan, Poland.
[H 28] Fuchs, Robert, Valentin Werner and Sandra Götz. 2016. The present perfect in learner Englishes: A corpus-based case study on L1 German intermediate and advanced speech and writing. Teaching and Language Corpora 2016 (TaLC 12), pre-conference workshop on Tense and Aspect in Learner Language, Giessen, Germany.
[H 27] Fuchs, Robert. 2016. Near mergers in postcolonial varieties of English – the /v/-/w/ contrast in Educated Indian English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain.
[H 26] Edwards, Alison and Robert Fuchs. 2016. Attitudes to English in the Netherlands and Germany. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain.
[H 25] Choon, Anja, Ulrike Gut, Robert Fuchs, Petra Wagner, Simon Betz, Henning Reetz, Bernd Möbius, Jürgen Trouvain, Susanne Fuchs and Oliver Niebuhr. 2016. Reichhaltige phonetische Annotation gesprochener Sprachdaten in CLARIN-D: WebMAUS Evaluation und Dokumentation eines Integrationsprozesses anhand des ICE-Scotland Corpus (Rich phonetic annotation of spoken language in CLARIN-D: Evaluation of WebMAUS and documentation of an integration process - the ICE-Scotland corpus. Forum CA3 (CLARIN-D research infrastructure), Hamburg, Germany.
[H 24] Fuchs, Robert. 2015. The Frequency of the Present Perfect in World Englishes. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2015), Istanbul, Turkey.
[H 23] Parviainen, Hanna and Robert Fuchs. 2015. Indian English as a super-central variety: Diffusion of clause-final focus particles in Asian Englishes. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 36), Trier, Germany.
[H 22] Fuchs, Robert and Ulrike Gut. 2015. Speech rate and fluency in native and non-native varieties of English. The Future of the International Corpus of English (ICE) – New Challenges, New Developments, workshop at International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 36), Trier, Germany.
[H 21] Fuchs, Robert and Ulrike Gut. 2015. Rich phonemic annotation of speech corpus data: ICE-Scotland/F-AG 6 curation project. CLARIN-Workshop at Anglistentag 2015, Paderborn, Germany.
[H 20] Fuchs, Robert. 2014. The frequency of the present perfect in varieties of English around the world. Perfect and Perfectivity Re-assessed through corpus studies, workshop at International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 35), Nottingham, UK.
[H 19] Fuchs, Robert and Romana Kopeckova. 2014. Perceptual similarity in Flege's Speech Learning Model: Evidence from the acquisition of Irish English lax and tense vowels by Polish children and adults. Workshop on Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Studies in L2 Phonology, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
[H 18] Fuchs, Robert, Ulrike Gut and Presley Ifukor. 2014. Recent change in the use of the progressive in Nigerian English: An apparent time study. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 35), Nottingham, UK.
[H 17] Fuchs, Robert. 2014. Colonial lag in South Asian Englishes. 2014. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2014), Delhi, India.
[H 16] Werner, Valentin and Robert Fuchs. 2014. The present perfect in Nigerian English. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2014), Delhi, India.
[H 15] Fuchs, Robert. 2013. So ladylike and particularly manly? Determinants of variation in intensifier usage in Indian English. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 34), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
[H 14] Fuchs, Robert. 2013. Speech rhythm in Educated Indian English. Poster bei ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) (Post-)Doctoral Spring School, Freiburg.
[H 13] Fuchs, Robert. 2013. Speech rhythm in Indian English. Gastvortrag am Center for English Language Studies der Hyderabad Central University, Indien.
[H 12] Fuchs, Robert. 2013. Speech rhythm in Indian English and British English: Production and perception. Gastvortrag am Phonetischen Laboratorium der Universität Zürich, Schweiz.
[H 11] Fuchs, Robert. 2012. “I, me, and myself:” Individualism vs. Collectivism in World Englishes. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2012), Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
[H 10] Fuchs, Robert. 2012. Speech rhythm and syllable structure in Educated Indian English and British English. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2012), Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
[H 9] Fuchs, Robert. 2012. A duration-based account of speech rhythm in Indian English, Poster. Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) 13, Stuttgart, Deutschland.
[H 8] Fuchs, Robert. 2012. So ladylike and particularly manly. Intensifier usage in Indian English. Workshop on English(es) and cultural identities in India and Sri Lanka, Gießen.
[H 7] Choon, Anja, Robert Fuchs, Ulrike Gut, Presley Ifukor and Taiwo Soneye. 2012. H-deletion and h-insertion in Nigerian English. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 33), Leuven, Belgien.
[H 6] Fuchs, Robert and Ulrike Gut. 2012. Do women use more intensifiers than men? - Investigating gender and age-specific language use with the International Corpus of English. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 33), Leuven, Belgien.
[H 5] Fuchs, Robert, Lilian Coronel and Ulrike Gut. 2012. Intensifiers in Asian Englishes. English in Asia's Languages Habitats and Europe's Asia competence, Berlin.
[H 4] Fuchs, Robert. 2012. The choice between present perfect and simple past in Nigerian and British English. Symposium: The Pragmatics of Aspect in Varieties of English, Innsbruck, Österreich.
[H 3] Fuchs, Robert, Taiwo Soneye and Ulrike Gut. 2011. "We just don't even know" The pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English. 4th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), Osnabrück.
[H 2] Fuchs, Robert and Lilian Coronel. 2011. Intensifiers across varieties of English. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) 2011, Melbourne, Australien.
[H 1] Fuchs, Robert and Ulrike Gut. 2011. The progressive aspect in Nigerian English. International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 2011, Boston, USA.