Annika Schebesta M.A.
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Research
Research interest
- Acoustic phonetics and acoustic analysis
- Morpho-phonology and morpho-phonetics
- Prosodic Phonology
- Speech production
- Statistical modeling of speech data
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Interface of phonetics and semantics of complex words
PhD project (2015-2024)
In my PhD project, I investigate the morpho-phonetic interface in English NNN compounds. I examine whether the morphological structure of triconstituent compounds is accessed by the phonetic signal during speech production. Previous research has provided evidence that sub-phonemic detail reflects morphological structure although a number of categorical approaches to speech productio, explicitly or implicitly, reject the existence of such an interplay.
I ran a corpus study and two production experiments with native speakers of North American English. I test the effect of morphological structure on (i) acoustic duration of compound constituents, and (ii) plosive reduction/deletion.
This PhD project is part of Morphological Embedding and Phonetic Reduction (associated project of the DFG Research Unit Spoken Morphology, FOR 2373). I completed my PhD in January 2025.
Courses taught
Universität Siegen
- Introduction to linguistics
- Language and medicine
- Methods in syntactic research
- Morpho-Phonetics
- Morphology
- Phonetics and phonology in language acquisition
- Phonology
- Processing complex words
- Researching phonology
- Second Language Acquisition
- Syntax
Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
- Introduction to English linguistics
- Phonetics
- Phonetics & Phonology
- Syntax
Short CV
Education
2012 B.A. Romance Studies (French/Spanish), English Studies; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2015 M.A. Comparative Studies in English and American language, literature and culture, main focus: linguistics; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Fall quarter 2013 Linguistics (Graduate classes); University of California Davis
2025 Promotion (PhD) in English Linguistics; Universität Siegen
Positions
2015 - 2018 Research assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiterin), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2018 - Research assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiterin), Universität Siegen
10/19 - 08/20 and 02/23 - 02/24: parental leave
Memberships
FörderLink e.V. - Förderkreis der Allgemeinen Linguistik an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
LabPhon - Association for Laboratory Phonology
DGfS - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
Publications & talks
Publications
Schebesta, Annika & Jessica Nieder. 2025. Semantic transparency affects the phonetic signal. In Sven Grawunder & Neda Mousavi, P&P20 - 2024 Tagungsband zum 20. Jahrestreffen Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, 103-110. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/116710. PDF
Schebesta, Annika & Gero Kunter. 2022. Constituent durations in English NNN compounds: A case of strategic behavior? Journal of Phonetics 94(6). DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101164. PDF
Presentations & posters
Schebesta, Annika & Jessica Nieder. 2025. Contextual semantic effects in compound processing. Talk presented at 47. DGfS-Jahrestagung, 4-7 March 2025, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
Schebesta, Annika & Jessica Nieder. 2024. Semantic transparency affects the acoustic signal. Poster presented at 20. P&P, 1-2 October 2024, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Schebesta, Annika & Gero Kunter. 2022. Reduction in English NNN compounds: Evidence for a default pattern in compound production. Talk presented at Morphology in production and perception, 7-9 February 2022, online.
Schebesta, Annika. 2022. Phonetic reduction in NNN compounds: Lexical frequency tricks morphological structure. Invited talk at the English Linguistics Circle at the Universität Trier, 12 January 2022, online.
Schebesta, Annika & Gero Kunter. 2021. Triconstituent compounds and phonetic variation: Plosive deletion and constituent durations. Poster presented at Words in the World International Conference, 26-27 November 2021, online.
Schebesta, Annika. 2021. Dreigliedrige Komposita und phonetische Variation: Plosivtilgung und Konstituentendauer. Poster presented at 17. P&P, 29-30 September 2021, online.
Schebesta, Annika. 2021. Does frequency solve it all? The interface of frequency and morphological embeddedness. Talk presented at Internal Workshop FOR 2373 "Spoken Morphology", 18-19 March 2021, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
Schebesta, Annika. 2018. Was beeinflusst das akustische Signal in komplexen Wörtern? Der Fall englischer NNN-Komposita. Talk presented at Sprachwissenschaftlich-sprachdidaktisches Kolloquium der Universität Siegen, 7 November 2018, Universität Siegen, Germany.
Schebesta, Annika & Gero Kunter. 2018. Morphological structure, plosive deletion and acoustic reduction: the case of NNN compounds. Poster presented at LabPhon 16: Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology, 19-22 June 2018, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Schebesta, Annika. 2018. What affects variation in the phonetics of NNN compounds? Looking at the impact of morphological structure and more linguistic factors. Talk presented at Alberta Phonetics Lab Meeting (APhL Edmonton), 7 February 2018, University of Alberta, Canada.
Schebesta, Annika. 2017. What affects variation in the phonetics of NNN compounds? Looking at the impact of morphological structure and more linguistic factors. Talk presented at 2nd Workshop on Spoken Morphology, 23-25 August 2017, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
Schebesta, Annika & Gero Kunter. 2017. Phonetic reduction in NNN compounds: the role of boundary strength. Poster presented at 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, 22-25 June 2017, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
Schebesta, Annika. 2016. Phonetic reduction in triconstituent compounds. An investigation of acoustic constituent durations. Talk presented at Alberta Phonetics Lab Meeting (APhL Edmonton), 26 September 2016, University of Alberta, Canada.
Schebesta, Annika. 2016. Against Bracketing Erasure in English triconstituent compounds: an investigation of acoustic constituent durations. Talk presented at 1st Workshop on Spoken Morphology, 24-25 August 2016, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.