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Sabine Zerbian is a Professor of English Phonology at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Linguistics, affiliated with the Division of English Linguistics (IfLA). Her research focuses on typological variation, learner variation, and contact variation in phonology, with special attention to South African English and the phonology/tonology of Southern Bantu languages like Tswana and Sepedi. She also investigates experimental phonology and heritage language maintenance.
Key projects include the RUEG Corpus (Recording US Heritage Russian in Germany), exploring intonation patterns in heritage and monolingual Russian speakers. Her work spans intonation analysis, prosodic boundary phenomena, and tonal processes in Bantu languages. She has collaborated on the BULB project for under-resourced language documentation using innovative technologies.
Her publications address topics such as pre-boundary lengthening in German, word order variation in heritage Russian, and prosodic marking of focus across South African English varieties. She teaches courses on English phonetics and phonology, and her office hours are arranged via email.
