Schmitz, D., Stein, S. D., & Schneider, V. (2025). Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness. Berlin, Boston: düsseldorf university press.
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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., Blessing-Plötner, J. E., Cinar, N., Dang, N. M., Hoffmanns, N., Luther, A., Peksen, I., & Robke, T. (forthcoming). 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. (forthcoming). 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
Baer-Henney, D., & Schmitz, D. (forthcoming). The role of phonemic and subphonemic cues in morphological learning. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 13.
Schmitz, D. (forthcoming). 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.
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. (2025). Gendered realities: How language encodes bias and reflects society’s stereotypes. Journeys across Worlds: Deconstructing Realities through Language and Literature, conference by students of the comparative studies master’s programme, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. 31 January.
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, Germany. 20 December.
Schmitz, D. (2023). Von Algorithmen zu Geschlechterfragen: Wie computerlinguistische Methoden die Genderlinguistik bereichern. GAL Research School “Empirische Methoden in der Genderlinguistik”, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim, Germany. 13 October. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12162.45762
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, Germany. 01 June.