Schmitz, D., Stein, S. D., & Schneider, V. (2024). Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness. Berlin, Boston: düsseldorf university press.
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Books
Schmitz, D. (2022). Production, perception, and comprehension of subphonemic detail: Word-final /s/ in English. Studies in Laboratory Phonology 11. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7267830
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Articles, Chapters & Proceedings
Preprints
Schmitz, D. (2024). Differences in semantics explain differences in comprehension: Generic masculines and gender star forms in German from a discriminative perspective. Preprint.
Schmitz, D., Blessing-Plötner, J. E., Cinar, N., Dang, N. M., Hoffmanns, H., Khadouj, N., Luther, A., Peksen, I., Robke, T. L., Stürmer, G., Taei, I., Tsioli A.-S., & Vohra, S. A. (2024). Form identity and gendered associations: L2 English –er facilitates the bias of L1 German –er. In Schmitz, D., Stein, S. D., and Schneider, V. (Eds). Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness. Berlin, Boston: düsseldorf university press.
Schmitz, D. (2024). Pronoun comprehension from a discriminative perspective: A proof of concept. In Schmitz, D., Stein, S. D., and Schneider, V. (Eds). Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness. Berlin, Boston: düsseldorf university press.
Schmitz, D. (2023). In German, all professors are male. In Pfeifer, J., Arndt-Lappe, S., Dorgeloh, H., Kunter, G., and Uffmann, Ch. (Eds). INGO 6.0. The Proceedings. New empirical Insights about laNguage, presented on a Great day Out in September. Preprint available on PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/yjuhc
Accepted
Schmitz, D. (2024). Homophonous semantic minimal pairs differ in their subphonemic acoustic durations: The case of generic and specific masculines in German. Proceedings of 20. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), 01-02 October, 2024.
Schmitz, D. (2024). Genderpragmatik. Bericht zur Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (ALP e.V.) an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum am 27. Februar 2024. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik.
Published
Muschalik, J., Schmitz, D., Kakolu Ramarao, A., & Baer-Henney, D. (2024). Typing /s/ – Morphology between the keys? Reading and Writing (2024). doi: 10.1007/s11145-024-10586-9
Schmitz, D., & Baer-Henney, D. (2024). Morphology renders homophonous segments phonetically different: Word-final /s/ in German. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024 (SP2024), Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-119
Schmitz, D., Cicek, D., Nguyen, A. K., & Rottleb, D. (2023). Cuteness modulates size sound symbolism at its extremes. Open Linguistics, 9(1), 20220257. doi: 10.1515/opli-2022-0257
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2023). No genericity in sight: An exploration of the semantics of masculine generics in German. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1). doi: 10.5070/G6011192
Coretta, S., Casillas, J. V., …, Schmitz, D., …, Roettger, T. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3). doi: 10.1177/25152459231162567
Jeong, C., Schmitz, D., Kakolu Ramarao, A., Stein, A., & Tang, K. (2023). Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection. Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 138-150.
Schmitz, D., Baer-Henney, D., & Plag, I. (2021). The duration of word-final /s/ differs across morphological categories in English: Evidence from pseudowords. Phonetica, 78(5-6), 571-616. doi: 10.1515/phon-2021-2013
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., Baer-Henney, D., & Stein, S. D. (2021). Durational differences of word-final /s/ emerge from the lexicon: Modelling morpho-phonetic effects in pseudowords with linear discriminative learning. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680889
Talks
2025
2024
2023
Schmitz, D., Cicek, D., Nguyen, A. K., & Rottleb, D. (2023). In sound symbolic effects, visual dimensions interact: The case of vowel quality and cuteness. Iconicity Seminar 2023 (IcoSem20223), online. 25 November.
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2023). A discriminative account of masculine generics and their masculine bias in German. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-11 August.
Schmitz, D., Cicek, D., Nguyen, A. K., & Rottleb, D. (2023). Cuteness amplifies effects of size sound symbolism: A cute /i/ is smaller than an ugly one. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-11 August.
Baer-Henney, D., & Schmitz, D. (2023). Learning morphology with the help of subphonemic detail? 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-11 August.
Muschalik, J., Schmitz, D., Kakolu Ramarao, A., & Baer-Henney, D. (2023). Typing /s/ – Morphology between the keys? 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-11 August.
Schneider, V., Schmitz, D., & Plag, I. (2023). Denominal and deverbal eventuality-related nominalizations from a discriminative perspective. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-11 August.
Muschalik, J., Schmitz, D., Kakolu Ramarao, A., & Baer-Henney, D. (2023). Typing /s/ – Morphology between the keys? Writing Words Workshop 2023, Universität Potsdam, Germany. 12-14 July.
Baer-Henney, D., & Schmitz, D. (2023). Learning to distinguish morphological categories based on subphonemic detail? 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands. 2-4 June.
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2023). Die semantische Repräsentation des generischen Maskulinums. 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln, Germany. 07-10 March.
2022
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2022). Out of sight, out of mind: The pseudo-genericity of German role nouns. 3rd International Twitter Conference on Linguistics – Linguistweets, Abralin: Brazilian Linguistics Association, online. 05 December.
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2022). An exploration of the underlying semantic features of masculine generics in German. InSemantiC 2022, University of Porto, Portugal. 21-23 November.
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2022). Evidence for a non-generic masculine generic in German. EDLL 2022: The Second International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language, University of Tübingen, Germany. 01-03 August.
Schmitz, D., Baer-Henney, D., & Plag, I. (2022). Morpho-phonetic detail influences listeners’ comprehension. 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, University of the Aegean, Greece. 19-22 May.
Schmitz, D., Esser, J., Schneider, V., Sternke, K., & Rohde, N. (2022). One form, two meanings: On the semantics of the specific and the generic masculine in German. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 2022, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. 31 March-02 April.
Schmitz, D., Engemann, M., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2022). Subphonemic detail affects morphological processing. Morphology in Production and Perception: Phonetics, Phonology and Spelling of Complex Words (MPP 2022), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-09 February.
Engemann, M., Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2022). Morpho-phonetic detail can be perceived: Evidence from stems and suffixes. Morphology in Production and Perception: Phonetics, Phonology and Spelling of Complex Words (MPP 2022), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 07-09 February.
2021
Schmitz, D., Engemann, M., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2021). Subtle morpho-phonetic differences in English stems and word-final /s/ influence listeners’ comprehension. Words in the World International Conference 2021, online. 26-27 November.
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2021). Reconsidering pseudowords in morphological research. 5th American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM5). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. 26-29 August.
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2021). The duration of word-final /s/ across morphological categories in English: Evidence from pseudowords. Interfaces of Phonetics. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. 18-19 May.
2020
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2020). Durational differences of homophonous suffixes emerge from the lexicon: Evidence from nonce words. Words in the World International Conference 2020, online. 16-18 October.
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2020). The duration of word-final /s/ across morphological categories in English: Evidence from pseudowords. 16. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Universität Trier, Germany. 10-11 September.
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2020). Subphonemic differences between different types of /s/ in English: Evidence from pseudowords. UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Birmingham, England. 28-30 July.
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2020). How real are acoustic differences between different types of final /s/ in English? Evidence from pseudowords. 19th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria. 06-08 February.
2017
Posters
2025
Schmitz, D., Müller-Spitzer, Carolin, Ochs, Samira, & Rüdiger, Jan Oliver (2025). Context doesn’t matter: The male bias of generic masculines in German remains stable across different context windows. Poster presented at 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. 04-07 March.
2024
Baer-Henney, D., & Schmitz, D. (2024). Homophones are not homophonous: The case of word-final /s/ in German. Poster presented at 20. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. 01-02 October.
Schmitz, D., & Baer-Henney, D. (2024). Morphology renders homophonous segments phonetically different: Word-final /s/ in German. Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2024 (SP2024), Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. 02-05 July.
Schmitz, D., & Baer-Henney, D. (2024). Subphonemic durational differences in word-final /s/ induced by morphological categories in German. Poster presented at 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. 27-29 June.
2023
Baer-Henney, D., & Schmitz, D. (2023). Tapping into morphology with the help of subphonemic detail. Poster presented at 19. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Universität Bern, Switzerland. 06-07 October.
Muschalik, J., Schmitz, D., Kakolu Ramarao, Akhilesh, & Baer-Henney, D. (2023). Acoustic duration and typing timing – same, same… but different? Poster presented at 19. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Universität Bern, Switzerland. 06-07 October.
Muschalik, J., Schmitz, D., Kakolu Ramarao, Akhilesh, & Baer-Henney, D. (2023). Acoustic duration and typing timing – same, same… but different? Poster presented at 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands. 02-04 June.
2022
Schmitz, D., Baer-Henney, D., & Plag, I. (2022). Listeners make use of subphonemic information in comprehension. Poster presented at 18. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. 06-07 October. doi: 10.11576/pundp2022-1002
Schmitz, D., Baer-Henney, D., & Plag, I. (2022). Morphological processing is affected by subphonemic detail. Poster presented at 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), online. 23-25 June. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16023.04000
2021
Schmitz, D., Engemann, M., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2021). Are listeners sensitive to morpho-phonetic differences in English stems and word-final /s/? Poster presented at 17. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. 29-30 September. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17465.29282
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2021). Durational differences of word-final /s/ emerge from the lexicon: Evidence from pseudowords. Poster presented at 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. 21-23 June. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36280.26883
2020
Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Baer-Henney, D. (2020). What causes subphonemic differences between different types of /s/ in English? Evidence from pseudowords. Poster presented at 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 06-08 July. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24176.17927
2018
Invited Talks
Schmitz, D. (2023). Gender and language: When form meets semantics in computational models. Master Colloquium “Phonological & Psycholinguistic Research” by Katharina Spalek & Ruben van de Vijver, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. 20 December.
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2022). Generic masculines in German – Why all teachers are masculine. Talk Series “Diversity in Linguistics” by Association for Diversity in Linguistics, online. 30 November.
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2022). What semantic vectors tell us about the masculine generic in German. Biased Language Technology in a Social World by Kevin Tang, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. 01 June.