Invited talks
2021. Intensivkurs gemischte Modelle. Workshop given at University of Vienna (remotely), July 2021.
2021. Computational Models for Language Contact and Language Shift. Talk given at the Old Frisian Summer School (remotely), Leeuwarden, July 2021.
2020. Statistische Methoden für Linguisten. Workshop given at University of Vienna (remotely), October 2020.
2019. Is sound change predictable? Deep learning and diachrony. Presentation given at the 7th workshop of the SimPhon network. Konstanz, November 2019.
Conference presentations
2021. Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems. Talk, 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP5), December 2021.
2021. The greater Sahara in the historical linguistic geography of Africa. Talk (together with Johanna Nichols), Talk, Workshop on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Diedrich Westermann, Berlin, Germany, November 2021.
2021. Prospects of computational internal reconstruction: machine learning and phonological predictability. Online-presentation given at Proto-Indo-European Reconstruction: Problems, possibilities and new perspectives, Cambridge, October 2021.
2021. Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior. Online-presentation given at EACL, April 2021.
2019. Old Frisian breaking revisited - Context and chronology of a complex change. Presentation given at the 10th Conference on Frisian Linguistics. Leeuwarden, October 2019.
2019. Sound change in German verbs: effects of paradigmatic and lexical confusability (Co-author: Fabian Tomaschek, University of Tübingen). Presentation given at "Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung". Düsseldorf, September 2019.
2019. Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using deep neural networks. Presentation given at RUSE symposium. Manchester, August 2019.
2019. Predicting Historical Phonetic Features using Deep Neural Networks: A Case Study of the Phonetic System of Proto-Indo-European. Poster presented at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Florence, Italy. August, 2019.
2019. Neues zu einer alten Sprache – die Korpuslinguistik und das Vandalische. Presentation given at the Nomen et Gens annual meeting. Köln, May 2019.
Other presentations
2022. Why does language change? Approaches and discussions: a dialogue between linguistics and philosophy. Presentation given at the Fachbereichskolloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz. February, 2022.
2021. Germanic phylogeny: computational simulations and phylogenetics. Presentation given at the Fachbereichskolloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz. July, 2021.
2019. Die Germanen - Herkunft und Entwicklung aus linguistischer Perspektive. Presentation given at the Fachbereichskolloquium, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz. December, 2019.
2018. Discovering Vandalic - A statistical approach towards investigating a scarcely attested language. Presentation given at the seminar Historical linguistics (lecturer Fabrício Marcel Ferraz Gerardi), Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen. February, 2018.
2017. Vandalisch - Versuch einer Analyse. Presentation given at the University of Tübingen Medieval German Literature Research Colloquium. July, 2017.
2016. E-Learning: Lernmodule für Gotisch und Althochdeutsch. Presentation given at the University of Tübingen Medieval German Literature Research Colloquium. November, 2016.