Erika Brandt

Dr. Erika Brandt is a Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), part of the DFG-funded SFB 1412 project on language-users' knowledge of situational-functional variation. Her role focuses on Research Area 1 'Laboratory Phonology'. She teaches courses at Humboldt University of Berlin, including 'Foreign Language Accent' and 'Basic Linguistics'.

Her research investigates linguistic variation in situated interaction, particularly phonetic register coding and discourse markers like pauses. Recent work explores how formal vs. informal speech contexts shape phonetic features and register distinctions. She actively contributes to collaborative research on cross-situational speech variation.

Teaching Affiliations: Humboldt University of Berlin.
Key Projects: DFG Project C02 'Variation in Situated Interaction' (SFB 1412).
Research Focus: Experimental phonetics, sociolinguistic variation, discourse analysis.