Fields of interest:
- phonetics/phonology; German dialects; historical linguistics; Indo-European linguistics; language typology
His area of research expertise is the area of Germanic Linguistics and his primary interests include phonetics/phonology, dialects of German, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics and language typology.
My research interests include: Phonetics, Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Dialectology.
My current research projects includes an in-depth investigation of Austrian dialects with particular regard for the phenomenon of l-rounding, whereby a front vowel is rounded before a lateral.
Some of my most recent research projects include: Vowel Prothesis before /r/ revisited: Acoustics and Typology; Prefixless past participles in West Central German: Phonology or Perfective aspect?; l-rounding in the Dialect of Graz
Though my primary research interests lie within Germanic languages, I have had experience with other languages, including Sanskrit, French, Spanish, Latin, Ukrainian and Old Church Slavonic, such that I do find myself on occasion interested in questions of Indo-Iranian, Romance or Slavic linguistics.
