Jessica Nieder
Chair Assistant
Dr. Jessica Nieder
Phone: +49(0)851/509-3486
Room: HK14d 315
Curriculum vitae
I have studied General Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf with a specialisation in foreign languages (Spanish/French) and Semantics/Pragmatics. Following my Master of Arts I completed my PhD on the topic of "Maltese Plurals Phonotactics, Variation and the Structure of the Mental Lexicon“ at HHU from 2015 until 2021 at the Department of Phonetics and Phonology.
As a postdoc at HHU, I worked on the computational modelling of speech production and comprehension with a special focus on the Semitic language Maltese. In an additional collaborative project with the English linguistics department at HHU I did research on the misperception of German song lyrics by German native speakers.
Since July 2023 I am affiliated to the Department of Multilingual Computational Linguistics at University of Passau and will focus on my Habilitation project that concerns the computational modelling of language contact and language comprehension.
As a postdoc at HHU, I worked on the computational modelling of speech production and comprehension with a special focus on the Semitic language Maltese. In an additional collaborative project with the English linguistics department at HHU I did research on the misperception of German song lyrics by German native speakers.
Since July 2023 I am affiliated to the Department of Multilingual Computational Linguistics at University of Passau and will focus on my Habilitation project that concerns the computational modelling of language contact and language comprehension.
Publications
Current Pre-Prints
- Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R., & Ussishkin, A. (2023). Emerging roots: Processing of Maltese verbs. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hwumf
Publications from 2024
- Rubehn, A., J. Nieder, R. Forkel, and J.-M. List (forthcoming): Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats. In: : Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. 7.04271. 1-12.
- Nieder, J. & List, J.-M. 2024. A Computational Model for the Assessment of Mutual Intelligibility Among Closely Related Languages. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pages 37–43, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Publications from 2023
- Nieder, J., & Tang, K. 2023. "Kriech nicht da rein" – a new corpus of naturalistic misperception of German misheard sung speech. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 506-511. Guarant International.
- Coretta S., Casillas J.V., ...Nieder, J., ... & Timo B. Roettger. 2023. Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231162567
- Nieder, J., & Tomaschek, F. 2023. Maltese as a merger of two worlds: A cross-language approach to phonotactic classification. PLoS ONE 18(4): e0284534. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284534.
- Nieder, J., Chuang, Y., van de Vijver, R., & Baayen, H. 2023. A discriminative lexicon approach to word comprehension, production, and processing: Maltese plurals. Language 99(2), 242-274. doi:10.1353/lan.2023.a900087.
Publications from 2022
- Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R., & Tomaschek, F. 2022. „All mimsy were the borogoves” – A discriminative learning model of morphological knowledge in pseudo-word inflection, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2127805.
Publications from 2021
- Nieder, J. , Tomaschek, F. , Cohrs, E. & van de Vijver, R. 2021. Modelling Maltese noun plural classes without morphemes. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 37(3), 381-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1977835
- Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R. & Mitterer, H. 2021. Priming Maltese Plurals: Representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon. The Mental Lexicon 16(1).
- Nieder, J. , van de Vijver, R. & Mitterer, H. 2021. Knowledge of Maltese singular-plural mappings: Analogy explains it best. Morphology 31, 147–170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-020-09353-7
Recent Talks & Posters
2024
- Nieder, J. and J.-M. List (2024): A computational model for the assessment of mutual intelligibility among closely related languages. Talk presented at SIGTYP 2024, 2024/03/21-22, Valletta, Association for Computational Linguistics.
- List, J.-M., van Dam, K. P. & Nieder, J. (2024). Computer-Assisted Approaches to Lexical Compositionality. Talk presented at the Complex words colloquium, 2 February, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
- List, J.-M., Rubehn, A. & Nieder, J. (2024). Computer-Assisted and Cross-Linguistic Approaches to
Phonetics and Phonology. Talk presented at the DLM colloquium, 26 January, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
2023
- Nieder, J. (2023). "I got my first real sex dream" - about miscperceptions and mondegreens. Talk presented at the Lecture series on Language and Music lead by Dr. Jasmin Peifer, 16 November, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
- Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R. & Ussishkin, A. 2023. Maltese auditory word comprehension explained through discriminative learning. Talk presented at the 8th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, 18-20 September, Universität Bremen, Germany.
- Nieder, J. & Tomaschek, F. 2023. Classifying the origin of Maltese nouns – A cross-language approach employing phonotactics. Talk presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26), 4-8 September, Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
- Nieder, J. & Tang, K. 2023. A corpus study of naturalistic misperceptions in German sung speech. Talk presented at PaPE Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2023, 2-4 June, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.
- Nieder, J. 2023. A discriminative model of subliminal priming in Maltese auditory word comprehension. Talk presented at PiF2023 Psycholinguistics in Flanders, 29-31 May, Universiteit Gent, Ghent.
2022
- Nieder, J. & Tomaschek, F. 2022. Maltese morphophonology – A merger of two worlds. Poster presented at the Phonetik & Phonologie Tagung im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 2022), 6-7 October, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld.
- Nieder, J. & Tomaschek, F. 2022. Between two worlds: The case of Maltese morphology. Talk presented at the The Second International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL2022), 1-3 August, University of Tübingen, Tübingen.
- Nieder, J., Chuang, Y.-Y., van de Vijver, R. & Baayen, H. 2022. Comprehension, production and processing of Maltese noun inflections: A modeling approach using LDL. Poster presented at the Winter(Summer) School 2022: Coping with the complexity in speech production and perception, University of Groningen, Chorin.
- Nieder, J., Chuang, Y.-Y., van de Vijver, R. & Baayen, H. 2022. Maltese noun plural inflections in the discriminative lexicon. Talk presented at the 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, 19-22 May, University of the Aegean, Rhodes.
- Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R. & Tomaschek, F. 2022. Insights into Maltese pseudo word inflections – a discriminative model of Semitic morphology. Talk presented at the Workshop on Semitic Morphology at the 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, 19-22 May, University of the Aegean, Rhodes.
- Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R. & Tomaschek, F. 2022. What’s the knowledge in Wug tests? Maltese pseudo word inflection is based on discriminative learning. Talk presented at the Morphology in Perception and Production: Phonetics, phonology and spelling of complex words (MPP 2022), 7-9 February, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf.
Focus areas
- Interaction of Phonology and Morphology
- Semitic Morphology
- Human language processing
- Computational models of human language processing
- Computer-assisted language comparison
Courses
Summer semester 2024
- 41611 Phonetik und Phonologie
- 41630 Prosodie und Reim - Theoretische und computationelle Perspektiven
- 41621 Sprachliche Diversität: Maltesisch und Deutsch im Kontrast
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