Talks

Muschalik, J., Baer-Henney, D., & Schmitz, D. (2026). Three modalities, multiple perspectives, shared insights? 48. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Trier, Germany. 25-27 February.

Schmitz, D. & Keller, J. (2025). Polysemes have no common sense duration. 21. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Leipzig University, Germany. 06-07 October.

Bell, M., Schmitz, D., & Plag, I. (2025). Mutual predictability of English compound prominence and compound semantics. 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 01-04 September.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Time is all they needs: Factors influencing the processing of generic and specific singular they. Lavender Language and Linguistics, LavLang31, Manchester Metropolitan University, England. 20-22 August.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Fine-semantic differences lead to fine-phonetic variation: Word-final /ɐ/ in generic and specific masculines in German. 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. 04-07 March.

Schmitz, D., Plag, I., & Bell, M. (2025). Modeling the relationship between prominence and semantics in English compounds. 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. 04-07 March.

Schmitz, D. (2024). A first discriminative account of the comprehension of gender star forms in German. Perspektiven der Movierungsforschung (Gender Marking for Female Beings), Université du Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. 08-10 October.

Schmitz, D. (2024). Homophonous semantic minimal pairs differ in their subphonemic acoustic durations: The case of generic and specific masculines in German. 20. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. 01-02 October.

Schmitz, D. (2024). Replacing one bias with another? The gender star form in German. Lavender Language and Linguistics, LavLang30, University of Brighton, England. 21-23 August.

Schmitz, D. (2024). Instances of genericity: A distributional semantic approach to generic and specific masculines’ semantics in German. Konstanz Linguistics Conference, Universität Konstanz, Germany. 21-22 March.

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.

Schmitz, D. (2023). He, she, they, they: A first discriminative analysis of third-person pronoun semantics. Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 20-21 July. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12243.96801

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.

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. (2022). Cuteness modulates size sound symbolism at its extremes. Iconicity Seminar 2022 (IcoSem2022), online. 14 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.

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.

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.

Schmitz, D., Cho, H.-E, & Niemann, H. (2017). Vowel shortening in German as a function of syllable structure. 13. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. 28-29 September.

Invited Talks

Schmitz, D. (2025). Perceiving fine-phonetic detail: The case of word-final /s/ in English. Processing of complex words by Annika Schebesta, University of Siegen, Germany. 15 December.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Gendered language and the mental lexicon: Computational insights. Modelling the mental lexicon by Sabine Arndt-Lappe, University of Trier, Germany. 08 December.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Computational methods in gender linguistic research: Distributional semantics and discriminative learning. Graduiertenschule für empirische und angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, University of Münster, Germany. 01 December.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Word Embeddings und genderlinguistische Forschung. GENELLI: An Empirical Look into the Language-Cognition Interface, Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany. 20 October.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Generic and specific masculines in German: Semantic and phonetic differences and similarities. Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender 2, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 12-13 August.

Schmitz, D. (2025). They across space and time: Capturing the nature of a multifaceted pronoun. Bremen Student Conference in English Linguistics, BSCEL 5, University of Bremen, Germany. 11 July.

Schmitz, D. (2025). Gendered words, gendered worlds: How language and gender interrelate. 2nd Queer Science Event, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. 24 June.

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. (2024). Comprehension difficulty renders the -er suffix in generic masculines longer than in specific masculines. Talk Series “Diversity in Linguistics” by Association for Diversity in Linguistics, online. 18 December.

Schmitz, D. (2024). Gender star semantics and comprehension from a linear discriminative learning perspective. Talk Series “Diversity in Linguistics” by Association for Diversity in Linguistics, online. 19 June.

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. (2022). In German, all professors are male. INGO 6.0, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. 01 September.

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.