Moosmüller, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sylvia
Head
Acoustic Phonetics
Acoustics Research Institute
Austria
Biography
Sylvia Moosmüller received her Ph.D. (dissertation title: "Soziale und psychosoziale Sprachvariation: eine quantitative und qualitative Untersuchung zum gegenwärtigen Wiener Deutsch") in General and Applied Linguistics from the University of Vienna in 1984. She worked in various research projects dealing with phonetic and phonological variation in Standard Austrian German and with linguistic gender studies. She joined the Acoustics Research Institute with her work on a forensic phonetics project in 1992. In 2007, she finished her post-doctoral thesis on the "Vowels in Standard Austrian German: an acoustic-phonetic and phonological analysis." She has been a qualified Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, Phonetics, and Phonology since 2008.
Research Interest
Sylvia Moosmüller lectures on acoustic phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistics at the University of Vienna and at the Fachhochschule "Logopädie - Phoniatrie - Audiologie". Her research fields include phonetic and phonological variation in the varieties of Austrian German, acoustic phonetic description of vowels of selected insufficiently described languages, forensic phonetics, sociolinguistics, and clinical phonetics.
Publications
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Moosmüller, S., Schmid, C., Sellner, M. (2017): Phonetik in und über Österreich (Veröffentlichungen zur Linguistik und Kommunikationsforschung Vol. 31). Wien (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). (book) BibTex
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lingler, N., Moosmüller S., Scheutz, H. (2017): Vowel and Consonant Sequences in three Bavarian Dialects of Austria, in: Proc. Interspeech 2017. Stockholm, Sweden, 2983-2987. (proceedings) BibTex
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Brandstätter, J., Moosmüller, S. (2017): Die Distinktion von standardsprachlich /e:/ und /E/ im Lichte der mittelbairischen Ë-Verwirrung", in: Lenz, A., Breuer, L.M., Ernst, P., Glauninger, M., Kallenborn, T., Patocka, F. (eds.), Bayerisch-österreichischer Varietäten zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts - Dynamik, Struktur, Funktion. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte. Stuttgart (Steiner), 163-176 (collection) BibTex
