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Anglistik & Amerikanistik
Department of Cultural Studies
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  • Language change across the lifespan
  • Second dialect acquisition
  • Vernacular varieties of English
  • Northern Englishes

11/2025 – today: Postdoctoral researcher/Habilitandin in English Linguistics at Technische Universität Dortmund

04/2022 - 10/2025: Ph.D. Student in Anglophone Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Investigating Intraspeaker Malleability across the Lifespan – An empirical panel study  (Final grade: summa cum laude, “with distinction”) 

01/2024 - 02/2024: Visiting Scholar at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, United Kingdom

10/2018 - 08/2021 : 2-Fach M.A. in Anglophone Studies and German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Final grade: 1.1, “with distinction”)

10/2014 - 09/2018: B.A. in Kulturwirt (Anglophone Studies and Business Studies) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Final grade: 1.5, “with distinction”)

Dissertation

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2025. Investigating Intraspeaker Malleability across the Lifespan: An empirical panel study. Paper-based PhD dissertation, University of Duisburg-Essen. 

 

Journal articles & conference proceedings

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2025. A panel approach to micro and macro perceptions of Tyneside English across the lifespan. English World-Wide, 46(3), 243–273. 

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2025. Learning to be (un)hip in panel data: Exploring quotative be like across the adult life‑span. Diachronica 42(5). 555–593. 

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2025. Navigating the vernacular across the lifespan: A panel study of the phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive. English Language & Linguistics 29(1). 132–158. 

Bergan, Peder, Anne-Marie Moelders, Kevin Rehring, Frederik Ahlemann, Stefan Decker & Stefan Reining. 2020. Towards designing effective governance regimes for smart city initiatives: The case of the city of Duisburg. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2323–2332.

 

Chapters in edited volumes

Grama, James, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne-Marie Moelders, Lea Bauernfeind & Mirjam Elisabeth Eiswirth. 2026. Ageing in style: Towards disentangling style-shifting and lifespan change. In Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen Beaman (eds.), Connecting the Individual and the Community: Contributions from Sociolinguistic Panel Research. New York: Routledge. 17–45.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. under review. On the real-time perception of Tyneside English features. In Claire Childs & Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Linguistic Variation and Change in the North-East of England.

Moelders, Anne-Marie, James Grama, Lea Bauernfeind & Isabelle Buchstaller. to appear. Adulthood. In Mary Kohn (ed.), Language and the Lifespan.

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Johanna Mechler. to appear. Experimental methods in perception research across the lifespan. In Mary Kohn (ed.), Language and the Lifespan.

 

Anne-Marie Moelders. accepted. Understanding the post-adolescent lifespan: An investigation of the drivers behind intraspeaker malleability in adulthood. accepted. Poster accepted for presentation at the 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE13), to be held at the University of Lausanne.

Grama, James, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne-Marie Moelders & Lea Bauernfeind. accepted. Putting sociolinguistic axioms to the test: Assessing the importance of stylistic, linguistic, and social constraints using random forests. Paper accepted for presentation at the 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE13), to be held at the University of Lausanne.

Grama, James, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne-Marie Moelders & Lea Bauernfeind. accepted. A new perspective on life-span (in)stability: Using random forests to assess the importance of stylistic variation, diachronic change and linguistic constraints. Paper accepted for presentation at the 7th International Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe7), to be held at Tongji University, Shanghai.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2025. A panel approach to linguistic perception: Exploring age and gender-related effects on real time reactions to speech. Presented at the DACH Language Variation and Change Conference, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2024. Age, gender, and “be like”: A study on real-time speech reactions across the life-span. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 (NWAV52), Florida International University and the University of Miami.

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Carina Ahrens. 2024. An acoustic study of the first-person possessive in the Northeast of England. Presented at the 25th Sociolinguistics Symposium, Curtin University, Perth.

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2024. Quotative variation across the lifespan: Findings from a longitudinal panel study. Presented at the International Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging 6 (CLARe6), University of Tübingen.

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2024. Drawing surrogate information from panel research: Exploring the principles underlying change in the quotative system in the Northeast of England. Presented at the Northern Englishes Workshop 10 (NEW10), University of Chester.

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2024. A life-span perspective on longitudinal changes in the quotative system – findings from a dynamic panel corpus. Presented at the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 12 (ICLaVE12), University of Vienna.

Ahrens, Carina & Anne-Marie Moelders. 2024. Me and my accent - analyzing acoustic patterns of the first-person possessive and object “me”: Evidence from Tyneside English. Presented at the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 12 (ICLaVE12), University of Vienna.

Ahrens, Carina & Anne-Marie Moelders. 2024. Exploring acoustic realisations of Tyneside English: Homophonous realisation of the First-Person Possessive and Object “me”?. Presented at Methods in Dialectology XVIII, La Trobe University Melbourne.

Bauernfeind, Lea, Anne-Marie Moelders, James Grama & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2024. The stylistic correlates of ageing: Evidence from a dynamic panel corpus that covers the adult life-span. Presented at the International Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging 6 (CLARe6), University of Tübingen.

Grama, James, Lea Bauernfeind, Anne-Marie Moelders & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2024. Honing in on the intersection of stylistic shift and life-span change: Results from a dynamic panel corpus that covers the adult life-span. Presented at the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 12 (ICLaVE12), University of Vienna.

Grama, James, Anne-Marie Moelders, Lea Bauernfeind & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2024. Disentangling style-shifting and life-span change: A panel study of FACE and 1st person possessive me in the North-East of England. Presented at Methods in Dialectology XVIII, La Trobe University Melbourne.

Grama, James, Anne-Marie Moelders, Isabelle Buchstaller & Lea Bauernfeind. 2023. Ageing in style: Towards disentangling style shifting and lifespan change. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51 (NWAV51), Queens College New York.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2023. Exploring gendered reactions to quotative be like across the adult lifespan. Presented at Linguistics PhDs in NRW 1 (LinPin1), University of Duisburg-Essen.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2023. A panel investigation of quotative be like across the lifespan. Presented at United Kingdom Language Variation and Change 14 (UKLVC14), University of Edinburgh.

Moelders, Anne-Marie & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2023. Learning to be (un)hip in panel data - Exploring quotative be like across the adult lifespan. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51 (NWAV51), Queens College New York.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2022. Professionals of the language? Intra-speaker malleability in the phonetic realization of the first person possessive. Presented at Linguisttweets. Online.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2022. A real-time investigation of intra-speaker malleability in the phonetic realization of the first-person possessive. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50 (NWAV50), Stanford University.

Moelders, Anne-Marie. 2021. Investigating language change across the life span: A real-time panel study of hyper -s and first-person singular possessive in North-Eastern English. Presented at United Kingdom Language Variation and Change 13 (UKLVC13), University of Glasgow.

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  • Linguistics 2
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Dialectology