Consultation hours: Tuesday 5:30-6:30 pm
Research interests
Language evolution
Language change
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Psycholinguistics
Historical linguistics
Cognitive science & behavioural sciences
Animal cognition & communication
CV
Publications
Baumann A, Matzinger T. 2021. Correlates in the evolution of phonotactic diversity in English: linguistic structure, demographics, and network characteristics. Language Sciences.
Baumann A, Kazmierski K, Matzinger T. 2020. Scaling laws for phonotactic complexity in spoken English language data. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920944445
Matzinger T, Ritt N & Fitch WT. 2020. Non-native speaker pause patterns closely correspond to those of native speakers at different speech rates. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0230710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230710
Matzinger T, Auersperg AMI & Bugnyar T: Problem-solving and tool-use in Common Ravens (C. corax) and Carrion Crows (C. corone) (in prep)
Sima MJ, Matzinger T, Bugnyar T & Pika S. 2018. Reconciliation and third-party affiliation in carrion crows. Ethology 124, 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12699.
Matzinger T. 2014. Teiche in der Landschaft – Bedeutung, Funktionen und Gefährdung. Schriftenreihe des Bundesamtes für Wasserwirtschaft, Band 36. http://www.baw.at/images/pdf/oeko/downloads/teiche_landschaft_ebook.pdf
Conference contributions
SLE 2019: 52th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea; Leipzig, D, August 21-24, 2019. Matzinger T, Ritt N. Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening produced canonical word form shapes.
ICLC 2019: 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Cognitive Linguistics; Nishinomiya, JP, August 6-11, 2019. Matzinger T, Schwarz M, Ritt N, Fitch WT. The effects of prosodic cues on word segmentation in an artificial language learning task.
ICLC 2019: 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Cognitive Linguistics; Nishinomiya, JP, August 6-11, 2019. Matzinger T, Baumann A, Kazmierski K. Phonotactics is less affected by statistical scaling laws than the lexicon.
PLM 2018: 48th Poznan Linguistic Meeting; Poznan, PL, September 13-15, 2018. Matzinger T, Ritt N, Fitch WT. Characteristics of pauses in L2 speech in different speech tempi.
SLE 2018: 51th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea; Tallinn, EE, August 29-September 1, 2018. Matzinger T, Ritt N, Fitch WT. The effects of final lengthening and pauses on word segmentation in artificial language learning.
ICL 2018: 20th international congress of linguists; Capetown, ZA, July 2-6, 2018. Baumann A, Matzinger T. Ecological and linguistic correlates of the dynamics of phonotactic diversity: a diachronic case study. Joint presentation with Baumann A.
EVOLANG 2018: 12th international conference on language evolution; Torun, PL, April 16-19, 2018. Baumann A, Matzinger T, Ritt N. Linguistic and non-linguistic correlates in the evolution of phonotactic diversity. Joint presentation with Baumann A.
ESHP 2017: Third Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology; Edinburgh, UK, November 30-December 1, 2017. Matzinger T, Ritt N. Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening and statistical (mor-)phonotactics.
SLE 2017: 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europeae; Zurich, CH, September 10-13, 2017. Matzinger T, Ritt N. /l/-darkening in Austrian learner English.
Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society 2017: From Sensory Perception to Behaviour; Bonn, D, February 22-24, 2017. Matzinger T, Aust U. Visual discrimination of natural and artificial stimuli in pigeons (Columba livia).
ASAB Summer Conference 2015: Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Summer Conference; Lincoln, UK, August 26-27, 2015. Matzinger T, Auersperg AMI, Von Bayern AMP & Bugnyar T. Problem-solving and tool-use in Common Ravens (C. corax) and Carrion Crows (C. corone).
ECBB 2014: European Conference of Behavioural Biology; Prague, CZ, July 17-20, 2014. Matzinger T, Auersperg AMI, Von Bayern AMP & Bugnyar T. Problem-solving, tool-use and insight in Common Ravens (C. corax) and Carrion Crows (C. corone).
Summer school participations
Perspectives in Neuroaestehtics 2018; London, UK, September 24-28, 2018.
Statistical Design for Small Sample Sizes 2018; Vienna, A, August 27-31, 2018.
IK 2017: Interdisciplinary College in Cognitive Science - Creativity and Intelligence in Brains and Machines; Günne, D, March 10-17.
Awards, scholarships and grants
2019: SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) award for the best presentation by a PhD student at the 52th Annual Meeting of the SLE
2017: Conference Travel Grant of the Ethological Society
2012, 2014: ASAB Conference Travel Grants
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (2x), 2014, 2017: Academic excellence scholarship (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna.
Teaching
FS Research Seminar – Experimental Approaches to Language Change: SS 2018; University of Vienna.
PS Proseminar Linguistics 1 - Phonetics and Phonology: WS 2017/18, SS 2018, WS 2018/19, SS 2019, SS2020; University of Vienna.
Hast du Lust auf eine Reise zum Alien-Planeten?
Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker), Vanja Vukovic (Speaker), Irene Amparo Böhm (Speaker) & Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Phonotactically probable word shapes represent attractors in the evolution of sound patterns - An introduction to a database of Early Middle English sound patterns
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The role of prosody in language learning, change and evolution
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Phonotactically probable word shapes represent attractors in the evolution of sound patterns
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Combining artificial language learning with behavioural economics to study shared language as a predictor of trust
Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker) & Theresa Matzinger (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Aesthetic perception of prosodic patterns as a factor in speech segmentation
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Eva Specker (Contributor), Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor) & William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Linguistic markers of group affiliation increase trust as much as other biological and cultural tags
Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker), Theresa Matzinger (Contributor) & Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Phonotactically probable word shapes represent attractors in the evolution of sound patterns
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Quantifying changes in gender bias in the Google Books Corpus
Nikolaus Ritt (Speaker), Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker), Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Andreas Baumann (Speaker) & Vanja Vukovic (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Assessing the effect of shared language and other social group markers on trust
Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker), Theresa Matzinger (Contributor) & Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Haben Sprachen Geschwister?
Vanja Vukovic (Speaker), Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker) & Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Workshop: "Visualization of linguistic data with ggplot2"
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker) & Vanja Vukovic (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Workshop: "Visualization of linguistic data with ggplot2"
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker) & Vanja Vukovic (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Testing shared language as a source of trust in an investment game
Magdalena Schwarz (Speaker), Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening produced canonical word form shapes
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Phonotactics is affected by statistical scaling laws less than the lexicon
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Andreas Baumann (Speaker) & Kamil Kazmierski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Phonotactics is less affected by statistical scaling laws than the lexicon
Andreas Baumann (Contributor), Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Kamil Kazmierski (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The effects of prosodic cues on word segmentation in an artificial language learning task
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Magdalena Schwarz (Contributor), Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor) & William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Characteristics of pauses in L2 speech in different speech tempi
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor) & William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The effects of final lengthening and pauses on word segmentation in artificial language learning
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor) & William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Können Tiere Werkzeuge benutzen?
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Ecological and linguistic correlates of the dynamics of phonotactic diversity: a diachronic case study
Andreas Baumann (Speaker) & Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Linguistic and non-linguistic correlates in the evolution of phonotactic diversity
Andreas Baumann (Speaker), Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Von Aliensprache zur Muttersprache: wie Kinder unsere Sprache lernen
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening and statistical (mor-)phonotactics
Nikolaus Ritt (Speaker) & Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
/l/- darkening in Austrian learner English
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Nikolaus Ritt (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Visual discrimination of natural and artificial stimuli in pigeons (Columba livia)
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker) & Ulrike Aust (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Technical Problem Solving and Tool Use in Ravens (Corvus corax) and Carrion Crows (Corvus corone)
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Alice Auersperg (Contributor), Auguste von Bayern (Contributor) & Thomas Bugnyar (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Teiche in der Landschaft – Bedeutung, Funktionen und Gefährdung
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Teiche in der Landschaft – Bedeutung, Funktionen und Gefährdung
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Technical problem-solving, tool-use and insight in common ravens and carrion crows
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Alice Auersperg (Speaker), Auguste von Bayern (Speaker) & Thomas Bugnyar (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Teiche in der Landschaft – Bedeutung, Funktionen und Gefährdung
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
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