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 Assignments in Summer 2024, Winter 2024/2025 & Summer 2025
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
International workshop @ Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Planning, Coordination, Website, Marketing, Participant Management
International conference @ Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Planning, Coordination, Platform Management
International Summer School on Forensic Linguistics @ div-ling e.V.
Marketing, Website, Planning, Coordination, Participant Management | 6 editions
Career Day “Perspectives for Linguistics” @ University of Cologne
Marketing, Website, Planning, Coordination | 3 editions
Annual Conference on Logopedics @ dbl e.V.
Website, Coordination, Participant Management | 2 editions
CogSci 2023
CogSci 2024
CogSci 2025
IcoSem 2023
16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
LabPhon18
Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender
Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender 2
Linguistic Society of America – Annual Meeting 2023
Linguistic Society of America – Annual Meeting 2024
Linguistic Society of America – Annual Meeting 2025
Morphology in Production and Perception
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)
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