I did my bachelor’s degree in English and Business Studies (Kulturwirt) and then changed to English and German for my master’s. During my studies I focused on sociolinguistics, and I’m particularly interested in the way linguistic and social factors influence the way we speak.  

I am currently working on my PhD thesis in which I aim to analyze the malleability of quotatives and the phonetic realization of the first-person possessive in a comprehensive and dynamic panel sample that covers the lifespan as a whole. This production research will be combined with reception research to explore the indexicalities of the variables.

Contact:

anne-marie.moelders@uni-due.de

Research Interests:

• Language Change across the Lifespan
• Morphosyntactic Change
• Panel Research

Conference Contributions and Talks:

Moelders, A.-M. (2023). A panel investigation of quotative be like across the lifespan. United Kingdom Variation and Change, University of Edinburgh.

Moelders, A.-M. (2023). Exploring gendered reactions to quotative be like across the adult lifespan. LinPin1, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Moelders, A.-M., & Buchstaller, I. (2023). Learning to be (un)hip in panel data—Exploring quotative be like across the adult lifespan. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51, New York.

Grama, J., Moelders, A.-M., Buchstaller, I., & Bauernfeind, L. (2023). Ageing in style: Towards disentangling style shifting and lifespan change. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51, New York.

Moelders, A.-M. (2022). A real-time investigation of intra-speaker malleability in the phonetic realization of the first-person possessive. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50, Stanford University.

Moelders, A.-M. (2022). Professionals of the language? Intra-speaker malleability in the Phonetic Realization of the First Person Possessive. Linguisttweets.

Moelders, A.-M. (2021). Investigating language change across the lifespan: A real-time panel study of hyper -s and first-person singular possessive in North-eastern English. United Kingdom Variation & Change 13, University of Glasgow.

Publications:

Moelders, A.-M., & Buchstaller, I. (in prep). Tracing quotative strategies across a complex panel sample. To be submitted to Diachronica.

Moelders, A.-M. (under review). Navigating the vernacular across the lifespan: A panel study of the phonetic realization of the first person possessive. Submitted to English Language & Linguistics.

Grama, J., Buchstaller, I., Moelders, A.-M., Bauernfeind, A. L., & Eiswirth, M. E. (accepted, subject to revisions). Ageing in style: Towards disentangling style-shifting and lifespan change. In Connecting the individual and the community: Contributions from sociolinguistic panel research. Routledge.

Bergan, P., Moelders, A.-M., Rehring, K., Ahlemann, F., Decker, S., & Reining, S. (2020). Towards designing effective governance regimes for smart city initiatives: the case of the city of Duisburg. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2020.283