Research Foci
- Varieties of English World-Wide
- Phonetics
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Attitudes
- Corpus Linguistics
- AI and Machine Learning
- Applied Linguistics
CV
Academic Education
- Postdoc in English Linguistics, University of Münster
- PhD student in English Linguistics, University of Münster
- Sandwich PhD / Doutorado Sanduíche, Speech Prosody Studies Group, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
- M.Ed. English & Social Sciences, University of Münster
- B.A. English & Political Science, University of Münster
- Exchange Student at Hastings College, Nebraska, USA
Positions
- Research Associate (Postdoc), Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut), University of Münster
- Research Assistant, Chair of Variation Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber), University of Münster
- Research Assistant, Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut), University of Münster
- Student Research Assistant, Chair of Variation Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber), University of Münster
External Functions
- Teaching English & Teaching In English in Global Contexts (Member)
- Classroom Linguistics (Special Interest Group) (Co-founder)
- Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) (Member)
- European COST Action: Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME) - Working Groups 6 & 8 (Member)
- International Phonetic Association (IPA)
- International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
- Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
- Learner Corpus Association
- Global Englishes in ELT in Germany
- World Englishes in NRW (WEiN)
- Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL)
- International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
Teaching
Seminars
- Seminar: English in the Caribbean [094720]
- [Mon, – | | ES 24]
- Seminar: Pronouncing English: Group I [092579]
- Seminar: Corpus Linguistics [092671]
- Seminar: Pronouncing English: Group II [092580]
- Seminar: Pragmatics: Corpora and Variation [090662]
- Seminar: Pragmatics: Corpora and Variation (II) [090602]
- Seminar: Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in English [098779]
- Seminar: (Acoustic) Sociophonetics (neu!) [096672]
- Seminar: World Englishes in the EFL classroom in Germany [092703]
- Seminar: Varieties of English around the Globe [098682]
Practices
- Practical language course: Academic Skills: Gruppe V [096634]
(in cooperation with Anika Gerfer) - Practice: Gruppe VII: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [094611]
- Practice: Gruppe VII: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [090670]
- Practice: Gruppe VIII: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [096744]
Colloquium
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Linguistics) [094724]
- [Mon, – | | ES 202]
Other Courses
- Basic course: Introduction to English Linguistics II (Group IX) - entfällt -
- Basic course: Introduction to English Linguistics II (Group IX) [096881]
- Basic course: Introduction to English Linguistics I (Gruppe VIII) [094707]
- Workshop: Workshop (Herr Meer)
- Workshop: Global Englishes in English Language Teaching in Germany
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal) - Gastvortrag: Linguistic guest lecture
(in cooperation with Dagmar Deuber and Ulrike Gut) - Conference/Congress: Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality Models, Varieties, Approaches
(in cooperation with Ryan Durgasingh) - Workshop: Linguistic Workshop
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal)
Publications
Books
Book (Monograph)
- Meer, P. (). Trinidadian English: Sociophonetic variation and perception in secondary schools [under contract]. De Gruyter Mouton.
Books (Edited Collections)
- Meer, P., & Gut, U. (ed.) (). English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current approaches and future directions [under contract]. De Gruyter Mouton.
- Meer, P., & Durgasingh, R. (ed.) (). Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards. John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/silv.32.
- Meer, P., & Schmalz, M. (ed.) (). Englishes of the Caribbean (Special Issue of World Englishes). John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/weng.12591.
- Callies, M., Hehner, S., Meer, P., & Westphal, M. (ed.) (). Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106.
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- Gut, U., & Meer, P. (). Consonant clusters in Nigerian English. World Englishes, 45 (1), 19–38. doi: 10.1111/weng.12731.
- Gagua, M., Altendorf, L.-C., Nelson, C., Meer, P., & Fuchs, R. (). From love to mate: Recent diachronic change in affiliative vocatives in British English [under review]. World Englishes, ..
- Meer, P. (). Auto-coding of sociophonetic variation in New Englishes: A case study using pre-trained forced alignment [under review]. Linguistics Vanguard, ..
- Meer, P., Hänsel, E. C., & Deuber, D. (). Vowel variation in English in the Eastern Caribbean: An acoustic phonetic study of monophthongs in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad [under review]. English World-Wide, ..
- Meer, P., Fuchs, R., Hertzel, L., Antunes, J., Brdarević-Čeljo, A., Carella, G., Cavalheiro, L., Cirillo, L., Dubravac, V., Galilei, G., Guerra, L., Köhler, P., Matz, F., Serveta, S. M., & Wirbatz, K. (). Representations of Global Englishes in ELT textbooks in Europe: A comparative analysis from four countries [under review]. RELC Journal, ..
- Meer, P., & Elbwart, K. (). Classroom Linguistics: Bridging linguistics and English language education in Germany [under review]. Anglistik, ..
- Fuchs, R., Meer, P., Halves, T., Altendorf, L.-C., Brdarević-Čeljo, A., Calamai, S., Cavalheiro, L., Dubravac, V., Guerra, L., Köhler, P., Matz, F., Nodari, R., Schilling, J., Soria, C., Stoddard, B., & Wirbatz, K. (). Attitudes toward Englishes in European schools: Evidence from a large-scale, cross-national study [under review]. System, ..
- Meer, P., Hänsel, E. C., & Deuber, D. (). Consonantal variation in English in the Eastern Caribbean: Investigating (th), rhoticity, and /-Ct, -Cd/-deletion in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad [under review]. World Englishes, ..
- Li, Z., Gut, U., & Meer, P. (). Covariation of phonological features in Standardised Scottish English. World Englishes, 44 (1-2), 95–107. doi: 10.1111/weng.12692.
- Lenhardt, L. L., & Meer, P. (). Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students.Preprint. English Today, Online First. doi: 10.1017/S026607842510059X.
- Hänsel, E. C., & Meer, P. (). Comparing attitudes toward Caribbean, British, and American accents in Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States. World Englishes, 42 (1), 130–149. doi: 10.1111/weng.12618.
- Meer, P., Fuchs, R., Deuber, D., Lacoste, V., & Hänsel, E. C. (). Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad. World Englishes, 42 (1), 48–72. doi: 10.1111/weng.12615.
- Meer, P., & Fuchs, R. (). The Trini Sing-Song: Sociophonetic variation in Trinidadian English prosody and differences to other varieties. Language and Speech, 65 (4), 923–957. doi: 10.1177/0023830921998404.
- Meer, P., Hartmann, J., & Rumlich, D. (). Attitudes of German high school students toward different varieties of English. Applied Linguistics, 43 (3), 538–562. doi: 10.1093/applin/amab046.
- Hänsel, E. C., Westphal, M., Meer, P., & Deuber, D. (). Context matters: Grenadian students' attitudes towards newscasters' and teachers' accents. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37 (1), 16–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00085.han.
- Meer, P., Hartmann, J., & Rumlich, D. (). Folklinguistic perceptions of Global Englishes among German learners of English. European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9 (2), 391–416. doi: 10.1515/eujal-2020-0014.
- Meer, P., Brato, T., & Matute Flores, J. A. (). Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes: A comparison of different methods. English World-Wide, 42 (1), 54–84. doi: 10.1075/eww.00060.mee.
- Meer, P., Fuchs, R., Gerfer, A., Gut, U., & Li, Z. (). Rhotics in Scottish Standard English. English World-Wide, 42 (2), 121–144. doi: 10.1075/eww.00070.mee.
- Meer, P. (). Automatic alignment for New Englishes: Applying state-of-the-art aligners to Trinidadian English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147 (4), 2283–2294. doi: 10.1121/10.0001069.
- Meer, P., Westphal, M., Hänsel, E. C., & Deuber, D. (). Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 34 (1), 83–125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- Meer, P., Francis, R., & Fuchs, R. (). Lexical stress perception by Trinidadian English listeners. in ISCA (ed.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody (pp. 309–313). International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-63.
- Silva Jr., L., Silva, J., & Meer, P. (). Prosodic aspects of Brazilian L2 English: A comparison of duration-based rhythm and F0 measures with American English, Indian English, and Brazilian Portuguese. in ISCA (ed.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody (pp. 101–105). International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-21.
- Ahlers, W., & Meer, P. (). Sibilant variation in New Englishes: A comparative sociophonetic study of Trinidadian and American English /s(tr)/-retraction. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz, Austria. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1821.
- Meer, P., & Fuchs, R. (). Pitch level, range, and dynamism in Trinidadian English: A comparative study with other varieties of English. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia.
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Lind, M., Dippold, D., Barbu Mititelu, V., Beňuš, Š., Liebeskind, C., Meer, P., Oleskeviciene, G. V., Schaub, S., Shakir, M., & Vallentin, R. (). Language variation and change, interaction, and pragmatics [fc.]. in Sayers, D., Kelly-Holmes, H., & Fuchs, R. (ed.), Language in the Human-Machine Era: New Technologies and the Coming Transformation of Language (p. .–.). MIT Press.
- Schneider, B., Migge, B., Meer, P., & al., e. (). Normative concepts of language in the human-machine era: Observations, thoughts, and perspectives [fc.]. in Sayers, D., Kelly-Holmes, H., & Fuchs, R. (ed.), Language in the Human-Machine Era: New Technologies and the Coming Transformation of Language (p. .–.). MIT Press.
- Hackert, S., & Meer, P. (). Caribbean Englishes and American linguistic influence [fc.]. in Hackert, S. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean English (p. .–.). Oxford University Press.
- Meer, P., & Schmalz, M. (). The role of Global Englishes in high school curricula in Switzerland [fc.]. in Reckermann, J., & Römhild, R. (ed.), Advances in Global Englishes Language Teaching: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (p. .–.). Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Gut, U., & Meer, P. (). The NURSE-DRESS merger in Nigerian and Ghanaian English: A corpus-based, multifactorial acoustic study [fc.]. in Werner, V., Schützler, O., Schlüter, J., Knappe, G., Sönning, L., & Vetter, F. (ed.), Juggling intra- and extralinguistic factors in the study of variation and change (p. .–.). De Gruyter Mouton.
- Francis, R., & Meer, P. (). Crosslinguistic influence vs. simplification in L2 English morphosyntax: A comparative analysis of St. Lucian and German learner writing [fc.]. in De Lisser, T. (ed.), Language and Linguistics in Education (p. .–.). Language Science Press.
- Meer, P. (). (th)-variation in Nigerian English. A large-scale corpus phonetic study [fc.]. in Meer, P., & Gut, U. (ed.), English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current approaches and future directions (p. .–.). De Gruyter Mouton.
- Grondelaers, S., Maegaard, M., & Meer, P. (). Consolidation and innovation: Studying language attitudes and ideologies in multilingual and multilectal communities [fc.]. in Lanza, E., Røyneland, U., & Wei, Li. (ed.), Current Approaches in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research (p. .–.). John Wiley & Sons.
- Meer, P., & Gut, U. (). Mapping the field: Current trends in English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology [fc.]. in Meer, P., & Gut, U. (ed.), English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current approaches and future directions (p. .–.). De Gruyter Mouton.
- Gut, U., & Meer, P. (). Looking ahead: Progress and possibilities in English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology [fc.]. in Meer, P., & Gut, U. (ed.), English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology: Current approaches and future directions (p. .–.). De Gruyter Mouton.
- Meer, P., Fuchs, R., Hertzel, L., Köhler, P., & Halves, T. (). The German context. in Guerra, L., Cavalheiro, L., Pereira, R., & Antunes, J. (ed.), Handbook on Counteracting Accent Discrimination in Education (p. .–.). Edições Húmus.
- Meer, P. (). Standard Trinidadian English [under review]. in Ball, M. J., & Hu, F. (ed.), A Survey of Diphthongs and Triphthongs (pp. 1–10). University of Toronto Press.
- Meer, P., & Durgasingh, R. (). Caribbean Creoles and Englishes: Sociophonetic and morphosyntactic variation. in Bolton, K. (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes (pp. 1–10). Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00294.
- Jackson, S., Meer, P., & Schmalz, M. (). Trinidad and Tobago, English and Creoles in. in Bolton, K. (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes (pp. 1–13). Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00291.
- Meer, P., & Durgasingh, R. (). Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality – The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity. in Meer, P., & Durgasingh, R. (ed.), Pluricentricity and Pluriareality (pp. 1–14). John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/silv.32.01mee.
- Durgasingh, R., & Meer, P. (). Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarity. in Meer, P., & Durgasingh, R. (ed.), Pluricentricity and Pluriareality (pp. 187–195). John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/silv.32.09dur.
- Meer, P. (). Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adolescent and adult speakers. in Schmalz, M., Vida-Mannl, M., Buschfeld, S., & Brato, T. (ed.), Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches (pp. 279–306). De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110733723-013.
- Römhild, R., & Meer, P. (). Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Language Education: Current trajectories and alternative perspectives. in Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F., & Siepmann, P. (ed.), Rethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education (pp. 137–153). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Hehner, S., Meer, P., Callies, M., & Westphal, M. (). Global Englishes and challenges for English Language Teaching and teacher education in higher education in Germany. in Brandt, A., Buschmann-Göbels, A., & Harsch, C. (ed.), Fremdsprachen in Lehre und Forschung: Vol. 53. Rethinking the Language Learner: Paradigmen - Methoden - Disziplinen. Erträge des 7.Bremer Symposions (pp. 284–292). AKS Verlag.
- Meer, P. (). Global Englishes in the secondary school curriculum in Germany: A comparative analysis of the English language curricula of the federal states. in Callies, M., Hehner, S., Meer, P., & Westphal, M. (ed.), Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany. (pp. 85–103). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106-8.
- Hölscher, V., & Meer, P. (). Global Englishes in the second phase of teacher education in Germany: Teacher educators’ perspectives on ELT and teacher education. in Callies, M., Hehner, S., Meer, P., & Westphal, M. (ed.), Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany (pp. 28–45). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106.
- Meer, P., & Deuber, D. (). Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model. in Buschfeld, S., & Kautzsch, A. (ed.), Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes (pp. 274–297). Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.003.0013.
AbstractThesis (Doctoral or Postdoctoral)
- Meer, P. (). Standard English in Trinidadian secondary schools: Accent variation and attitudes. [Dissertation thesis, University of Münster] doi: 10.17879/18988575787.
Other Scientific Publications
- Reckermann, J., & Meer, P. (). Review: Iwai, Melissa. 2021. Dumplings for Lily, Norton Young Readers.
- Schmalz, M., & Meer, P. (). Englishes of the Caribbean: A research bibliography. doi: 10.1111/weng.12614.
- Meer, P., & Schmalz, M. (). Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean. doi: 10.1111/weng.12616.
- Meer, P. (). Ideologies and biases in linguistic speech processing tools. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.25867.36649.
- Meer, P. (). Select phonetic and phonological features of Caribbean varieties of English: An overview. Open Science Framework. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q98AD.
- Callies, M., Hehner, S., Meer, P., & Westphal, M. (). Introduction. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106-1.
- Meer, P. (). 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. doi: 10.17879/satura-2018-3137.
