Student Assistants

Student assistants

Yasmina Bouziani

I am a 2-Fach Master student of Anglophone Studies and Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a student assistant, I am part of a team of tutors who offer student-led tutorials to the “Introduction to Linguistics II” lecture. I also code data for the LaVaLi project.
 In my studies I am particularly interested in the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and sexuality/gender, as well as interpersonal pragmatics.

Laura Seidel

I'm a joint honours masters student (Anglophone Studies / German as a Second and Foreign Language) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a student assistant in the Sociolinguistics Lab, I code data from the LaVaLi corpus in ELAN. I am also interested in societal linguistic diversity and heritage language education.

Berna Ünal

I am a Master's student in English and Biology with a focus on secondary education (Lehramt GyGe). As a student assistant in the Sociolinguistics Lab, I contribute to the LaVaLi project by coding data using ELAN. My personal interests lie at the intersection of sociolinguistics and language change, with a particular focus on ethnolectal variation and social indexicality - how language reflects and constructs social identities.

Former student assistants

Carina Ahrens

I am a master’s student in sociolinguistics (UDE) and psycholinguistics (RUB). I am interested in sociophonetics and multilingualism and its change over the lifespan. Currently, I am working on my master’s thesis in which I investigate vowels. As a student assistant in the LaVaLi project I am mainly working with Praat and Elan to code and process the data.

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Hannah Sawall

I'm a 2-Fach M.A. student (Anglophone Studies and Germanistik) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a student assistant in the Sociolinguistics Lab, I transcribe and code data from the LaVaLi corpus in ELAN. I am also interested in Lavender Linguistics and Linguistic Landscapes.

Jonas Wrase

I am a Bachelor's student in English and History (Lehramt Gym/Ge). In my work I am concerned with vowel-checking in Praat for the LaVaLi project. My personal areas of interests include phonetics and phonology, varieties of Englisch (mainly of the British Isles and the northeast of the US), and semantics.