The University of Bern is represented in the CLARIN-CH Consortium by Prof. Sandrine Zufferey, from the Institute of French Language and Literature.
The community from the University of Bern provides CLARIN-CH language resources and expertise in language sciences.
Language resources
The Online Corpus of Linear Elamite Inscriptions (OCLEI) is a tool for computer-assisted analysis of Linear Elamite, an undeciphered syllabic writing system used in the late 3rd millennium BC. It supports a Unicode version of all the sign variants and allows for a statistical analysis of the texts. Currently, 50 Linear Elamite inscriptions and fragments are known (41 when collating the fragments of a single artefact).
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
English Department
Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:
Dialectological data collection
Digital discourse
Discourse studies
Language variation
Language ideologies
Language and dialect obsolescence
Language and global mobility
Linguistic anthropology
Relationship between language and identity
Sociolinguistics
The dialectological consequences of geographical mobility
The dialectology – human geography interface
Variation and change in contemporary English
Variationist sociolinguistics
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Institute of French Language and Literature
Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:
Acquisition of prosody in L2
Contrastive linguistics
Computational linguistics
Discourse
Language acquisition
Lexical segmentation and foreign accent
Linguistic change
History and epistemology of linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Perception and production of temporal variables
Prosody and regional variation (in French and Spanish)
Relationship between linguistics and psychoanalysis
Saussurean linguistics
Semantics
Semiology/semiotics
Speech technology
Structuralism
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Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:
Construction grammar
Contrastive German studies and language typology
Corpus linguistics
Dialectology
Grammaticalisation
Graphematics
(Historical) syntax and text linguistics
Language history and language change
Morphology/word formation
Onomastics (surname geography, name grammar)
Variation (text type variation)
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Institute of Italian Language and Literature
Institute of Spanish Language and Literature
Institute of Linguistics
Digital Humanities
Areas of expertise:
Critical Algorithm Studies
Digital History
Epistemology of the Digital
Machine Learning in the Humanities
Text processing and information extraction after digital editing
Theory of the digital humanities
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Center for the Study of Language and Society
Areas of expertise:
Dialectology
Ethnography
Experimental Sociolinguistics
Interactional Sociolinguistics
Language variation and change
Language and Identity (particularly gender, sexuality, race, nation)
Language, Inequality and Bias
Sociophonetics
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