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Bianca Maria Sell is a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, working at the Institute of German Language and Linguistics. She is actively involved in Collaborative Research Center 1412 (CRC 1412) 'Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation' where she contributes to project C06 'Seemingly free (morpho)phonetic variation'.
Her research focuses on language register variation in German spontaneous speech, with particular attention to phonetic realization in different dialogue contexts. She has made significant contributions to corpus development, notably co-creating the Berlin Dialogue Corpus (BeDiaCo) and the Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR), which document spontaneous dialogues in various communicative situations.
Sell's work examines how linguistic elements like schwa realization in verbal inflection vary across different dialogue registers, including free conversation versus task-based dialogues. Her research employs corpus-based methods combined with acoustic analysis to investigate how social and functional contexts influence phonetic variation in German.
Her publications demonstrate a strong focus on methodological approaches to studying register variation, with emphasis on corpus documentation, annotation guidelines, and experimental materials development for speech production and perception research.
Sell collaborates extensively with researchers including Robert Lange, Megumi Terada, Malte Belz, and Christine Mooshammer, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her work at the intersection of phonetics, corpus linguistics, and register variation studies.
