Fuchs, Robert
Research Assistant Professor
English Language and Literature
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
Robert has done his Dr. phil. (equivalent to PhD) at University of Münster, Germany and M.A at Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Research Interest
Experimental phonetics and phonology, World Englishes/(postcolonial) varieties of Englishes, corpus linguistics, gender and language, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition (esp. speech learning) DRNAs Hong Kong Studies World Englishes Gender Literature and Language in the Asian Context
Publications
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Robert F (2016) The frequency of the present perfect in varieties of English around the World. In Werner, Valentin, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: de Gruyter.
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Robert F (2016) Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English. Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English. Singapore: Springer.
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Robert F (2017) Do women use more intensifiers than men? Recent change in the sociolinguistics of intensifiers in British English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
