Heidi Altmann, Ph.D.          

Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft

Universität Konstanz

Heidi.Altmann at uni-konstanz.de

 

Educational Background:

 

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Delaware, USA, 2006

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Delaware, USA, 2000

M.A. in Foreign Languages (German), University of Wyoming, USA, 1998

Graduate Studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, 1993-1996

Exchange studies in Chinese, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1992-1993

B.A. in Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, 1992

B.A. in English, Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, 1992

 

Professional Experience:

 

Since 2007: full-time Lecturer, Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz

2006-2007: part-time instructor (Lehrbeauftragte), Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz

2003-2004: Instructor (ESL and DAF), Inlingua, Konstanz

2001-2003: Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware

2000-2001: Editorial Assistant, Language and Speech

2000-2003: Instructor, English Language Institute, University of Delaware, USA

1998-2000: Instructor and Research Assistant, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Delaware

1996-1998: Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Modern Languages, University of Wyoming

 

Teaching:

 

BA and MA courses taught at the University of Konstanz (since 2006)

 

Second Language Acquisition Theories, WS 2008/2009

Sprache und Geschlecht, WS 2008/09

New Englishes, WS 2008/09

BA Kolloquium, WS 2008/09

Sociolinguistics, WS 2008/09

Phonologie I (in German), SS 2008

English Phonology, SS 2008

Stylistics, SS 2008

Sociolinguistics, SS 2008

L2 Learner Types and Language Assessment, WS 2007/08

New Englishes, WS 2007/08

Second Language Acquisition, WS 2007/08

Structure and History of Chinese, WS 2007/08

Foreign Language Teaching Methods, SS 2007

English Stylistics, SS 2007

Language and Gender, SS2007

Survey of Applied Linguistics, WS 2006/07

 

Undergraduate courses taught at the University of Delaware (1998-2003)

 

Language and Gender

Introduction to Linguistics (several)

Language, Mind, and Society

English for International Teaching Assistants (several; English Language Institute)

Pedagogy for International Teaching Assistants (several; English Language Institute)

German (elementary and intermediate)

 

Undergraduate courses taught at the University of Wyoming (1996-1996)

 

Elementary German (several)

Intermediate German (several)

 

Research interests:

 

Phonology, Morphology, and their interfaces

First and Second Language Acquisition

First Language Attrition

German and German dialects

English as a Second Language

Mandarin Chinese morphology

Language and Gender

Language Teaching and Testing

 

 

Academic work:

 

§         The Perception and Production of Second Language Stress: A Crosslinguistic Experimental Study. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Delaware. Click here to download.

 

§         L2 speakers’ stress placement in the production of novel words. Paper presented at EUROSLA 2007, Newcastle, UK, September 2007.

 

§         What more regularity means for the perception of L2 stress: the case of Thurgovian and Standard German (with S. Weber). Paper presented at EUROSLA 2007, Newcastle, UK, September 2007.

 

§         Tenacity of L1 Phonological Knowledge (with B. Kabak). Invited talk delivered at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, Linguistics Program, April 2007 (with B. Kabak)

 

§         German children’s perception of (non)separable prefix verbs (with B. Kabak). Paper presented at the workshop The Acquisition of L1 Phonology, Konstanz, January 2007.

 

§         The Perception of L2 Stress Paper presented at EUROSLA 2006, Antalya, Turkey, September 2006

 

§         The Perception of L2 Stress: The role of L1 Poster presented at Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 2006.

 

§         Second Language Stress: Perception and Production (with I. Vogel). Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingualism 4, Tempe, Arizona, May 2003.

 

§         L2 Acquisition of Stress: the Role of L1 (with Irene Vogel). Paper presented at the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) Jahrestagung in Mannheim, Germany, March 2002.

 

§         The Role of L1 in the L2 Acquisition of Stress.  Paper presented at the University of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science Colloquium Series 2002.

 

 

Work-in-progress:

 

§         Early vs. Late Bilinguals’ perception of consonant clusters. In prep. (with B. Kabak)

 

§         The Perception of Second Language Stress. In prep.

 

§         Second Language Speakers’ Production of English Stress. In prep.

 

§         Plural Formation in Western Dutch and Southern German: Rhythm, segment structure and individual variation. (with J. Grijzenhout). In prep. University of Konstanz.

 

§         What more regularity means for the perception of L2 stress: The case of Thurgovian and Standard German. Manuscript submitted to EuroSLA Yearbook (with S. Weber).

 

§          American English Speakers’ Verb Placement Patterns in German (with B. Kabak). In prep.

 

§         Plural Formation in a Southern German Dialect: An Experimental Study. Ms. (to be submitted)

 

§         The use of prosodic information for disambiguating German (in)separable prefix verbs: An experimental investigation”  (with B. Kabak). Ms. (downloadable from Baris Kabak’s homepage)

 

 

Contact Information:

 

Heidi Altmann

FB Sprachwissenschaft

University of Konstanz

Fach 180

78457 Konstanz, Germany

 

E-mail: Heidi.Altmann at uni-konstanz.de

Tel: (0)7531-88-5213

Fax: (0)7531-88-4157