Our research projects include:
- Scottish Standard English - phonological and morphosyntactic features and their variation (2018-2021)
Funded by the DFG - Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of phonology and phonetics by multilimngual children and adults (2017-2019)
Funded by the DFG - Prosody and gesture in multilingual speakers (2014 - 2016)
Funded by the VW Foundation - Phonetic Annotation of the ICE Scotland Corpus (2015 - 2016)
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (via Max Planck Society) - ICE Scotland (2013 -) Compilation of a written and spoken corpus of English in Scotland
- ICE Nigeria (2007 - 2013) Compilation of a written and spoken corpus of English in Nigeria
- Pacx (since 2007) Development of an integrated platform for annotating, searching and building copora in XML
- LeaP (2001 - 2003) A phonological corpus of learner English and learner German