Research Interests

• English as a lingua franca
• Corpus linguistics: mark-up (esp. POS-tagging)
• Second language aquisition (esp. phonetics and phonology)
• Foreign language teaching

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Publications and Presentations

• 2008. 'Aspiration, [Ø] / [ð] und /r/ in Englisch als Lingua Franca, eine psycholinguistische Pilotstudie zu drei Vorschlägen des Lingua Franca Core'. University of Vienna (unpublished MA thesis).
• 2009. "Decoding sounds: an experimental approach to intelligibility in ELF". /Vienna English Working PaperS/ 18/1, 64-89. Available online at http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/dep_anglist/weitere_Uploads/Views/0901final.pdf
• 2009. Verständlichkeit in Englisch als Lingua Franca. Die Rolle von Aspiration, [?]/[ð] und /r/. Saarbrücken: VDM-Verlag Müller.
• 2010. "Testing the intelligibility of ELF sounds". Speak Out! 42, 14-18.
• (forthc.) "Evaluating the applicability of existing POS practices for a corpus of English as a lingua franca (VOICE)". Hoffmann, Sebastian; Rayson, Paul; Leech, Geoffrey (eds.). Corpus linguistics and variation in English: Focus on Nonnative Englishes (Proceedings of ICAME 30). Helsinki: VARIENG.

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• Aspiration, [?]/[ð] and /r/ in Englisch als Lingua Franca – a psycholinguistic approach." Individual paper, 2nd International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Southampton, 6-8 April 2009.
• 'Will VOICE go POS?'. Visual Presentation, 3rd International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Vienna, 22-25 May 2010.
• 'Evaluating the applicability of existing POS-taggers for a corpus of English as a lingua franca (VOICE)'. Individual work-in-progress paper, ICAME 31, Giessen, 26-30 May 2010.
• with Breiteneder, Angelika; (forthc.) 'Multiple voices: Highlighting aspects of form and function in ELF'. Symposium on 'East-West dialogue on English as a Lingua Franca, Part Two: ELF in Europe', convened by Jennifer Jenkins and Anna Mauranen. AILA: Beijing, 23-28 August 2011.
• with Patkin, John; Radeka, Michael. (forthc.) 'VOICE and ELFiA: Challenges in the collection and processing of ELF data'. Symposium on 'The VOICEs of Europe and Asia: diversity of data but harmony in approach', convened by Barbara Seidlhofer and Andy Kirkpatrick. AILA: Beijing, 23-28 August 2011.

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Ruth Osimk studied General and Applied Linguistics and English as well as German as a foreign language at the University of Vienna. She holds a CELTA diploma and has been teaching English and German as a foreign language in Austria and in the UK. Ruth has been working freelance for VOICE since June 2005 and joined the VOICE project as a researcher in June 2009. In her MA thesis, she approached the topic of intelligibility in ELF-communication from a segmental point of view, testing the influence of aspiration as well as different realizations of the interdental fricative and /r/ on intelligibility with psycholinguistic methods. Her current research interest is POS-tagging for ELF with the aim to extend the mark-up of the VOICE corpus.