Ludger Paschen

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Ludger Paschen
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Pariser Str. 1
10719 Berlin
Germany

Email: paschen [ät] leibniz-zas [döt] de

I am a linguist interested in the sounds and sound systems occurring in natural language.

I am editor of the DoReCo corpus and Principal Investigator in the AIRAL project at ZAS Berlin.

Previously, I held positions as a stand-in professor at University of Potsdam and as a postdoctoral researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS).

I received my PhD from the University of Leipzig, with a thesis on the interaction of reduplication and mutation.

Topics I am working on include

Speech corpora and databases for cross-linguistic comparison
Endangered and understudied languages
The interface between phonetics, phonology and morphology
Speech pauses and their relation to segmental duration, prosodic word domains, and speech rhythm

My latest publications:

Paschen, Ludger. (2025). Acoustic disambiguation of homophonous morphs is exceptional. Journal of Linguistics. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226725100777.
Paschen, Ludger. (2025). Phonetic Corpora. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1085.