PUBLICATIONS
In press
Beaman, Karen V., Fabian Tomaschek & Konstantin Sering (in press): The Cognitive Coherence of Sociolects Across the Lifespan: A Panel Study of Swabian German. In: M. Hoffman, R. Mendes & R. Orozco (eds.): Connections, Contact and Coherence in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2026
Fischbach, Lea, Alfred Lameli & Lucie Flek (2026): Beyond Accuracy: Analyzing Dialect Confusion in Automatic Speech-Based Dialect Classification. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 93–103. https://doi.org/10.63317/5f65nkr6qreo.
Fischer, Hanna & Alfred Lameli (2026): German Dialects Across Situations, Generations, and Regions: The REDE corpus as an Oral Resource for NLP. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 144–152. https://doi.org/10.63317/4fe4dkefqah9.
Kleen, Caroline, Lea Fischbach, Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek & Alfred Lameli (2026): Speaker Normalization via Voice Conversion Reveals a Human-Machine Dissociation in Dialect Classification. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 177–187. https://doi.org/10.63317/3sqk7nxsikhp.
Lameli, Alfred (2026): Evaluating Phonetically Weighted and Unweighted Distance Measures in Dialectometry. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4141–4151. https://doi.org/10.63317/38ndhg759wui.
2025
Beaman, Karen V. (2025): Change and stability: Intra- and inter-individual coherence across the linguistic architecture. In: I. Buchstaller & K. V. Beaman (eds.): Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research. New York: Routledge.
Bülow, Lars, Philip C. Vergeiner & Dominik Wallner (2025): Change of language attitudes in real time. Results from the Ulrichsberg project in Austria. In: Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen Beaman (eds.): Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research. Routledge Studies in Language Change. London: Routledge, 102–124.
Fischbach, Lea, Akbar Karimi, Carolin Kleen, Alfred Lameli & Lucie Flek (2025): Improving Low-Resource Dialect Classification Using Retrieval-based Voice Conversion. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2025, 2780–2784.
Fischbach, Lea, Caroline Kleen, Lucie Flek & Alfred Lameli (2025): Does Preprocessing Matter? An Analysis of Acoustic Feature Importance in Deep Learning for Dialect Classification. In: Proceedings of the 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Tartu: University of Tartu Library, 159–169.
Lameli, Alfred (2025): Gesprochenes Deutsch in den Regionen. Eine Standortbestimmung für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In: Nadine Proske, Thilo Weber, Monika Dannerer & Arnulf Deppermann (Hrsg.): Gesprochenes Deutsch. Struktur, Variation, Interaktion. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 51–79.
Lameli, Alfred & Nadja Spina (2025): The Signs of Time: The Indexical Value of Pre-boundary Lengthening. In: Toke Hoffmeister, Christina Kauschke & Mathias Scharinger (Hrsg.): Repräsentationen aus linguistischer und interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Baden-Baden: Olms, 357–381.
Spina, Nadja & Alfred Lameli (2025): Slow or Long? Generational Variation of Pre-boundary Lengthening in Different Dialect Areas of German. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Tone and Intonation, 60–64.
Vergeiner, Philip C., Lars Bülow & Stephan Elspaß (2025): Analysing dialect (morpho)syntax in Austria: a non-aggregative dialectometric approach. In: Journal of Linguistic Geography (online first), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2024.15.
2024
Beaman, Karen V. (2024): Language Change in Real- and Apparent-Time: Coherence in the Individual and the Community. New York: Routledge.
Kleen, Caroline, Marina Frank & Alfred Lameli (2024): Vertical differences in German Vowel Space Areas. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics (ISAPh 2024), 43–48.
Lameli, Alfred, Simonetta Montemagni & John Nerbonne (Hrsg.) (2024): Dialectal Dynamics. Special issue in: Languages 9/12.
Spina, Nadja & Alfred Lameli (2024): Regional variation in pre-boundary lengthening from a horizontal and vertical perspective: Evidence from German dialect- and standard-targeted speech. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Speech Prosody 2024, 990–994. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-200.
Vergeiner, Philip C., Lars Bülow & Stephan Elspaß (2024): The social versus the regional. A multivariate analysis of (morpho-)syntactic variation in Austria’s rural dialects. In: James M. Stratton & Karen Beaman (eds.): Expanding Variationist Sociolinguistic Research in Varieties of German. London: Routledge, 35–60.
2023
Vergeiner, Philip C. & Lars Bülow (2023): Geolinguistic structures of dialect phonology in the German-Speaking Alpine region. A dialectometric approach using crowdsourcing data. In: Open Linguistics 9(1), 20220252. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0252.
2022
Beaman, Karen V. & Gregory R. Guy (2022): The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning. New York: Routledge.
Beaman, Karen V. & Konstantin Sering (2022): Measuring Change in Lectal Coherence across Real- and Apparent-Time. In: Karen V. Beaman & Gregory R. Guy (eds.): The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning. New York: Routledge, 87–106.
Vergeiner, Philip C., Dominik Wallner & Lars Bülow (2022): Language change in real-time. 40 years of lectal coherence in the Central Bavarian dialect-standard constellation of Austria. In: Karen Beaman & Gregory R. Guy (eds.): The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning. New York/London: Routledge, 281–300.
2021
Beaman, Karen V. (2021): Exploring an approach for modelling lectal coherence. In: Nanna Haug Hilton, Remco Knooihuizen & Hans Van de Velde (eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE10), June 26–28, 2019, Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing House.
Beaman, K. V., F. Tomaschek & K. F. Sering (2021): The Cognitive Coherence of Sociolects Across the Lifespan: A Case Study of Swabian German. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6s73z.
2020
Beaman, Karen V. (2020): Coherence in Real- and Apparent-Time: A Sociolinguistic variationist investigation of language change Swabia. PhD thesis. Queen Mary University of London.