About

Oct 2023 – Present
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Postdoc Position
Department of English Language and Linguistics
DFG Project: Form and meaning in English compounds: the role of prosody
Teaching Assignment in Summer 2024

Nov 2022 – Sep 2023
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Postdoc Position
Department of English Language and Linguistics
DFG Project: The semantics of derivational morphology
Teaching Assignments in Winter 2022/2023 & Summer 2023

Nov 2018 – Oct 2022
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Doctoral Research Assistant
Department of English Language and Linguistics
DFG Research Unit FOR 2373: Spoken Morphology
Teaching Assignments in Winters 2019/2020 & 2021/2022

2018 – 2020
University of Cologne, Germany

Teaching Assignments
Department of Linguistics, initiated by the Student Council for Linguistics and Phonetics
Seminar “Applied Statistics” for Students of Linguistics, funded by Quality Improvement Funds

May 2019
University College London, England

Visiting Researcher
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Organisation, implementation and execution of a production experiment
Collaboration with international researchers

Aug 2015 – Mar 2019
Deutscher Bundesverband für Logopädie e.V., Frechen, Germany

Student Assistant
Project manager of evidenssst.org – Online platform for evidentiality based logopedics
Member of the department for IT and Internet | Sep 2015 – Mar 2019
Member of the department for Further and Advanced Education | Nov 2017 – Mar 2019
Member of the department for Finances and Membership Management | Nov 2017 – Jan 2018

Apr 2017 – Sep 2017
University of Cologne, Germany

Research Assistant
Department of English
Research Assistant to Professor Christiane M. Bongartz, SFB 1252; IT & web administration

Nov 2018 – Aug 2022
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

PhD English Linguistics | Grade: summa cum laude
Spoken Morphology: Phonetics and phonology of complex words | DFG Research Unit FOR 2373
PhD project: Final S in English – The role of acoustic detail in morphological processing
Thesis: Production, Perception, and Comprehension of Subphonemic Detail: Word-Final /s/ in English

Oct 2015 – Oct 2018
University of Cologne, Germany

Master of Arts: Linguistics
Major fields of study: Acoustic Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology, Prosody and Intonation; Second Language Acquisition
Thesis: Tonal Alignment and Segmental Composition in German

Oct 2011 – Sep 2015
University of Cologne, Germany

Bachelor of Arts: Linguistics & Phonetics and Japanese Studies
Major fields of study: Acoustic Phonetics, Prosody;
Pre-modern and modern topics of Japanese history
Thesis: Tonal Alignment in German – Stability and Variability

Apr 2014 – Aug 2014
Sophia University Tokyo 上智大学, Tokyo, Japan

Academic Exchange
Japanese language
General and Japanese linguistics

Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender

International workshop @ Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Planning, Coordination, Website, Marketing, Participant Management

Morphology in production and perception

International conference @ Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Planning, Coordination, Platform Management

Forensic Linguistics Short Course

International Summer School on Forensic Linguistics @ div-ling e.V.
Marketing, Website, Planning, Coordination, Participant Management | 6 editions

Karrieretag “Perspektiven für Linguistik”

Career Day “Perspectives for Linguistics” @ University of Cologne
Marketing, Website, Planning, Coordination | 3 editions

dbl-Kongress

Annual Conference on Logopedics @ dbl e.V.
Website, Coordination, Participant Management | 2 editions

Bullock, Barbara E., Russi, Cinzia & Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline (eds.). 2023. A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. (Open Romance Linguistics 2). Berlin: Language Science Press. (3 Chapters)

Kawaletz, Lea. 2023. The semantics of English -ment nominalizations. (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax). Berlin: Language Science Press. (2 Chapters)

Diversität in der Linguistik e.V. | Association for Diversity in Linguistics

The Association for Diversity in Linguistics was founded with the aim of promoting diversity within linguistics. Diversity here is understood as the promotion of diverse perspectives and points of view in linguistics, and as diversity among those who practice linguistics.

I am president of the association since its founding in October 2021. The Forensic Linguistics Short Course – a summer school I co-organise – and the Statistics for Linguistics workshop – a workshop on statistics I co-teach – are now part of the association.

Cognitive Science Society
January 2023 – Present
Member

Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
August 2021 – Present
Member

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft DGfS
February 2021 – Present
Member

Association for Laboratory Phonology
May 2020 – Present
Member

FörderLink e.V.
Jul 2019 – Present
Member

Cologne Center for Gender Studies GeStiK
Jun 2016 – Present
Member

International Phonetic Association IPA
Jan 2016 – Present
Member

Cologne Center of Language Sciences CCLS
Sep 2015 – Present
Member

Student Council for Linguistics and Phonetics
Oct 2015 – Oct 2018: Member
Nov 2018 – Aug 2022: Advisory Member

Linguistic Society of America
June 2021 – June 2022
Member

Data Center for the Humanities DCH
Jul 2018 – Mar 2019
Advisory Council