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Tobias Leonhardt studied English, Sociolinguistics and Sports Science at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He graduated in 2013 and has been working as an assistant in Modern English Linguistics. His main research interests are post-colonial Englishes, ethno- and anthropological linguistics, language variation and change, phonetics and phonology (specifically acoustic phonetics, sociophonetics, first and second language phonology). In 2015, he started working as a PhD student at the University of Bern, on a project focussing on the history, development and structure of Kiribati English in Micronesia. He formally completed the PhD project in early 2019.
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Feb 2019
PhD project complete!
Dissertation written and successfully defended. My PhD project on English in Kiribati is completed. Other projects continue.
PhD project complete!
Dissertation written and successfully defended. My PhD project on English in Kiribati is completed. Other projects continue.
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Dec 2016
My project made news! The research magazine Horizons, published jointly by the Swiss National Science Foundation (funding our Micronesia project) and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, has put together a short report about my research on Kiribati. |
Entire Issue: Horizons (Dec 2016)
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TEACHING
SS 2020 SS 2017 SS 2016 SS 2016 AS 2015 AS 2014 AS 2014 AS 2014 SS 2014 AS 2013 SS 2013 |
“Experimental Phonetics” (Leonhardt, T.) MA seminar, Center for the Study of Language and Society, University of Bern, Switzerland “The Sociolinguistics of Islands” (Leonhardt, T., & Bürki, D.) BA statistics workshop, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “ ‘I’m like, it’s all about the local dialect and that / U när I so, es geit ume Dialäkt hie u so’ ” (Leonhardt, T., & Bürki, D.) MA statistics workshop, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “Introduction to Slavic Linguistics” (Leonhardt, T., & Schneider, C.) BA acoustic phonetics workshop, Department of Slavistics, University of Bern, Switzerland “Englishes of the Pacific” (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “East Anglian English” (Leonhardt, T., & Bürki, D.) MA statistics workshop, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “Statistics for Linguists” (Leonhardt, T., & Bürki, D.) BA and MA workshop, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “Sociophonetics: Acoustic Analysis of Different Speech Styles” (Leonhardt, T.) BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “The Phonology of Second Language Acquisition” (Leonhardt, T.) BA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “Analysing grammatical variation and change: Relative clauses and verbs of possession” (Leonhardt, T., & Bürki, D.) MA statistics workshop, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland “Phonetics and Phonology” (Leonhardt, T., Weber, D., & Bürki, D.) BA workshop, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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PRESENTATIONS
April 2021 October 2020 October 2018 September 2018 June 2018 June 2018 June 2018 January 2018 October 2017 October 2017 October 2017 September 2017 September 2017 August 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 June 2017 May 2017 May 2017 May 2017 March 2017 March 2017 March 2017 March 2017 December 2016 November 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 September 2016 August 2016 June 2016 June 2016 June 2016 May 2016 May 2016 April 2016 April 2016 April 2016 March 2016 March 2016 November 2015 October 2015 October 2015 March 2015 March 2015 |
Phil.hist. Forschungstag 2021, University of Bern, Switzerland Kiribati-English Dictionary Project: Making research output accessible beyond academia (Poster) (Leonhardt, T.) Guest lecture for Acoustic Sociophonetics MA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland Understanding voice onset time (Talk) (Leonhardt, T.) Kiribati Education Improvement Program (KEIP) seminar, Ministry of Education, Kiribati English in Kiribati from a variationist sociolinguistics perspective (Talk; repetition) (Leonhardt, T.) Kiribati Education Improvement Program (KEIP) seminar, Ministry of Education, Kiribati English in Kiribati from a variationist sociolinguistics perspective (Talk) (Leonhardt, T.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, New Zealand KiriApp: Creating a smartphone dictionary app for Kiribati (Poster) (Leonhardt, T.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, New Zealand Changes in progress: Voice onset times (VOT) in Kiribati and Kiribati English (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, New Zealand Localised reactions to the challenges of climate change: Comparing language policy in Kiribati and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Presentation) (Buchstaller, I., Leonhardt, T., Autio, P.) Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBK): Beiratssitzung, University of Bern, Switzerland The Sociolinguistics of Micronesian Islands (Presentation) (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) Guest lecture for Fieldwork Methods in Sociolinguistic Dialectology MA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland 3 months in Kiribati: Fieldwork experiences (Talk) (Leonhardt, T.) Forschungskoll. Berner Linguistik / Research coll. Bernese Linguistics (BeLing), University of Bern, Switzerland No [b,d,g] in Swiss German or English: Laryngeal specifications versus traditional labels (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Statistical standards for scientific discovery in linguistics (Workshop), University of Zurich, Switzerland From palm trees and coconuts to inference trees and other tough nuts to crack: Doing statistics with linguistic data from Micronesian islands (Presentation) (Hess, D., & Leonhardt, T.) Phonology of Contemporary English 2017 Conference (PAC 2017), Paris Nanterre University, France Aspirated versus affricated /t/: Production strategies of I-Kiribati learners of English (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) 47th Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2017), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland From a one-variant system to a two-variant system: Acoustic properties of alveolar plosives in Kiribati and Kiribati English (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) AustraLex 2017, University of the South Pacific, Cook Islands "And to what purpose?”: About language and change in the Gilbert Islands (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Methods in Dialectology XVI, University of Tokyo, Japan Kiribati and the outside: About language contact in a remote and isolated Pacific island nation (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) 11th European Society for Oceanists Conference (ESfO 11), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Financing Kiribati: An overview of money flows and climate adaptation projects (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE9), University of Malaga, Spain Contact and exposure to the English language in Kiribati across time (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Pacific Englishes II (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Analysing a numeric DV along dominant extra-linguistic influences (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Guest lecture for The Sociolinguistics of Islands BA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland About contact in Kiribati: Aspects of colonisation and globalisation (Talk) (Leonhardt, T.) Phil.hist. Forschungstag 2017, University of Bern, Switzerland The development of English varieties in Micronesia (Poster) (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Relocation of an island nation: Climate change issues in Kiribati (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Linguistic Landscapes 9 (LL9), University of Luxembourg The scarce linguistic landscape of Kiribati’s outer islands (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) 4th Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG 4), University of Greifswald, Germany /t, d/-affrication in Kiribati as a manifestation of on-going cultural and linguistic globalization (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) 4th Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG 4), University of Greifswald, Germany The dynamics of language contact in Micronesia (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Studies of Paradise: Where language meets culture in the Pacific, University of Bern, Switzerland Conference organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) 'Migration with Dignity’ and the role of English in Kiribati (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Bilingual Workshop in Variationist Sociolinguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland Introducing Rbrul, a statistics tool for linguists: Two case studies (Poster) (Bürki, D., & Leonhardt, T.) Der Identitätsbegriff in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften (Workshop) Klimawandeleffekte auf Identitätsfragen in Kiribati (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Language and Place (Workshop), University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kiribati’s linguistic landscape: Snapshots from North and South Tarawa in 2015 and 2016 (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Input and Language Learning (Workshop), University of Fribourg, Switzerland Exposure and motivation: The history and status of English in Kiribati (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific (SHLP 5), Potsdam, Germany Researching English in Kiribati (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Big data bad data (CUSO Workshop), University of Lausanne, Switzerland Micronesian Data Mining: Searching for Sense in the South Seas (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Phonetics Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England Sounds of the South Seas: Insights into three acoustic variables (Talk) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Pacific Englishes (Workshop), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany Intra- and extra-linguistic explanations for the occurrence of [ts] and [dz] in Kiribati English (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain Kiribati and English: Bridging linguistic and cultural obstacles with alveolar plosives (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain Kiribati, Kosrae and Saipan: Effects of Mobility on Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik / Research colloquium Bernese linguistics (BeLing), University of Bern, Switzerland Mobility Effects on Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) English Department Retreat, Kiental, Switzerland Kiribati, Kosrae and Saipan: Sociolinguistic overview of Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Forum Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH), University of Bern, Switzerland English in paradise?: Emergent varieties in Micronesia (Poster) (Bürki, D., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP 4), National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Post-alveolar fricatives and affricates in Kiribati English (Poster) (Leonhardt, T.) Guest lecture at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Colloquium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands English in Paradise?: Challenges, opportunities and early results from work on New Englishes in Micronesia (Talk) (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., Matsumoto, K., & Mettler, L.) 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2016), University of Malaga, Spain English in las Islas de los Garbanzos: Developing a multi-locality corpus of Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., Matsumoto, K., & Mettler, L.) Peripheral Dialects II (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Measuring acoustic properties of alveolar plosives (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Micronesia Tea Break, University of Bern, Switzerland Organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Kiribati 2015: Fieldwork experiences (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Peripheral Dialects (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Double Conjunctions in Kiribati English (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2015), Bogazici University, Istanbul English in Kiribati: Its historical development and an initial linguistic description (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Conducting sociolinguistic research on Englishes near and far (CUSO Workshop), Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., & Leonhardt, T.) English in Kiribati: A pre-fieldwork overview (Presentation) (Leonhardt, T.) Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik / Research colloquium Bernese linguistics (BeLing), University of Bern, Switzerland English in paradise?: Emergent varieties in Micronesia (Presentation) (Bürki, D., & Leonhardt, T.) |
