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Melanie Weirich is a Professor and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. She contributes to the DFG project C02 'Variation in situated interaction' within the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Her work intersects phonetics, sociolinguistics, and multimodal speech research.
- Research Focus: Register variation, f0 modulation, acoustic-phonetic modeling, social meaning of speech.
- Methodology: Virtual reality experiments, mobile app elicitation, corpus-based analysis (e.g., German Plapper Corpus).
Recent publications analyze gender-based f0 variation, vowel dispersion, pause patterns, and multimodal cues in speech. Her work has been presented at major phonetics conferences like Interspeech, ICLAVE, and DGfS. She received the prestigious Heisenberg-Professorship (2021) for her research on phonetic-sociolinguistic interfaces.
- Scientific Awards:
- Heisenberg-Professorship (2021)
She collaborates with Stefanie Jannedy, Daniel Duran, and other researchers in the CRC 1412 network, contributing to laboratory phonology and speech technology innovation.
