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Picture could not be displayed Ludger Paschen
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Gebäude PT, Zi. 3.0.40
Universität Regensburg
93053 Regensburg

Email: ludger.paschen [ät] ur [döt] de

I am a linguist interested in typology, especially based on real-world corpus data. I am actively engaged in the creation of tools and resources for cross-linguistic comparison of spoken language data.

In the winter term 2025/2026, I am acting as Interim Professor at University of Regensburg. Previously, I was leader of the research project AIRAL (2022-2025, funded by DFG) at ZAS Berlin.

I am editor of DoReCo, a corpus with time-aligned data from 53 endangered and low-resource languages.

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

My latest publications:

Paschen, Ludger. (2025b). The ubiquity of word-internal pauses. Linguistic Typology. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2024-0093.
Paschen, Ludger. (2025a). Acoustic disambiguation of homophonous morphs is exceptional. Journal of Linguistics. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226725100777.