Language sciences
Language evolution
Language change
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Psycholinguistics
Historical linguistics
Cognitive science & behavioural sciences
Animal cognition & communication

2021- : Visiting post-doctoral researcher, Center of Language Evolution Studies, University of Toruń 2020- : Lecturer, Department of English, University of Vienna. 2017-2021 : PhD, Department of English & Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna. Fellow of the Doctoral Programme "Cognition & Communication" and the Vienna Doctoral School 'Cognition, Behaviour and Neuroscience'. Supervisors: Prof. Nikolaus Ritt, Prof. W. Tecumseh Fitch. 2016-2020: University Assistant (prae-doc), Department of English, University of Vienna. 2014-2021: AHS (high school) teacher for English and Biology. 2015-2016: Studies of English Language and Linguistics, University of Vienna. 2011-2015: MSc in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition, University of Vienna. 2008-2014: Mag. rer. nat. in Biology and English (Lehramt), University of Vienna. 2008-2011: BSc in Biology (Microbiology and Genetics), University of Vienna.

Matzinger T, Ritt N & Fitch WT. 2021. The influence of different prosodic cues on word segmentation. Frontiers in Psychology 12:622042. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.622042

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

Protolang 2019: Lisbon, PT, September 9-13, 2019. Schwarz M, Matzinger T, Ritt N. Testing shared language as a source of trust in an investment game. Joint presentation with Schwarz M.

SLE 2019: 52^th 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: 15^th 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: 15^th 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: 48^th 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: 20^th 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: 12^th 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).

Birmingham Statistics for Linguists Summer School 2019; Birmingham, UK, June 17-21, 2019.

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.

2019: Science Communication Grant of the Vienna Business Agency for designing and presenting an exhibit at the Vienna Science Festival 2020
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.

AR Research methods in linguistics (statistics sessions): WS 2018/19, SS 2019; University of Vienna.
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.