Megumi Terada

Megumi Terada is a researcher at the Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik within Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, actively contributing to the Collaborative Research Center 1412 (CRC 1412) under project C06: Seemingly Free (Morpho)Phonetic Variation. She specializes in phonetics, phonology, and language register analysis, with a focus on German spontaneous speech patterns and digital communication impacts.

• Affiliation: CRC 1412, SFB Project C06
• Key Research: Register variation in historical/modern contexts, Zoom-mediated speech effects, L2 German phonetics

Her work integrates corpus linguistics with multimodal analysis, examining how situational factors like videoconferencing alter phonetic realizations (e.g., 11.9% reduced vowel space in Zoom contexts). She develops annotation frameworks for spoken corpora (BeDiaCo, CoNNAR), emphasizing inflectional endings, dialogue structure, and acoustic measures.

Recent publications address schwa realization in German verbs, orthographic influence on L2 phonetics, and register trends across 2021-2024 datasets. While her awards and student mentoring details aren't explicitly stated, her collaborations with researchers like Christine Mooshammer and Anke Lüdeling demonstrate interdisciplinary engagement in phonetic modeling and register theory.