Nicole Marie Benker

2025 – today: Researcher at English Department (Hans-Jörg Schmid), LMU

2024 – today: Researcher at Graduate School for Linguistics and Literature, LMU

2017 – 2024: Different positions as student assistant at the department of English Studies and the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU

2025 – today: Researcher at English Department (Hans-Jörg Schmid), LMU

2024 – today: PhD in English Linguistics, LMU

Thesis: “The emergence and development of epistemic markers”, supervised by Hans-Jörg Schmid and Lars Bülow

2021 – 2023: MA Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics, LMU

Thesis: “Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation of Singleton Onsets and Codas in Quebec French”, supervised by: Miriam Oschkinat

2019 – 2021: MA English Studies, LMU

Thesis: “Prosody and chunking”, supervised by: Hans-Jörg Schmid

2016 – 2019: BA Anglistik, LMU

Thesis: “Prepositional variation in prepositional constructions”, supervised by: Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer

Benker, N. (in prep). “I don't even think he's that great a player, to be honest with you” – Frequency, peripheries and (inter)subjectivity.

Benker, N. (submitted). ‘To tell you the truth, that’s not my style’: The development and usage of near-synonymous pragmatic markers containing the words tell and truth.

Benker, N. (submitted). Entrenchment in the pragmatic domain: Tracing intra-individual variation of pragmatic markers over time.

Benker, N. (2025). The prosodic development of the sort of/ kind of/ type of-construction in English. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of Phonetics and Phonology in the German-speaking Area (PundP20).

Franke, M., Falk, S., Benker, N., & Hoole, P. (2025). The effect of rhythm on inter-gestural coupling of onset and vowel gestures and predictive timing in stuttering. Journal of Phonetics, 112, 101432.

Benker, N. (2025). ‘Not gonna lie, that’s a real bummer’ – The usualization of the pragmatic marker not gonna lie. Languages, 10(8), 186.

Burroni, F., Maspong, S., Benker, N., Hoole, P., & Kirby, J. (2024). Spatiotemporal features of bilabial geminate and singleton consonants in Italian. In Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production.

Franke, M., Benker, N., Falk, S., & Hoole, P. (2023). Synchronization type matters: Articulatory timing in different rhythmic conditions in persons who stutter. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Coretta, S., Casillas, J., Roessig, S., Franke, M.… Benker, N. …, Roettger, T. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human-speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3), 25152459231162567.

JUL 2026 11th BICLCE, Klagenfurt: “Leveraging video game livestreams to explore intra-individual variation of pragmatic markers over time” (talk)

MAY 2026 47th ICAME, Koblenz: “Exploring functional differentiation of near-synonymous pragmatic markers using historical corpora” (talk)

OCT 2025: 21. Jahrestreffen für Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (PundP21), Leipzig: “Prosodic properties of discourse marker sequences (poster presentation)

SEP 2025: Social Grammars, Munich: “’I don't even think he's that great a player, to be honest with you.’– How the functions of clause peripheries shape the form of pragmatic markers.” (talk)

MAI 2025: 30th LIPP Symposium, Munich: “Tracing intraindividual variation of pragmatic markers over time.” (talk)

APR 2025: Sprachvariation und Wandel im deutschsprachigen Raum (DACH-LVC), Munich: “Investigating prosodic change in real-time: The case of kind of” (talk)

OCT 2024: 20. Jahrestreffen für Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (PundP20), Halle a.d. Saale: “The prosodic development of the sort of/ kind of / type of-construction in English” (poster presentation)

SEP 2024: LVII Congresso internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), online: “The SKT-construction and prosody: a diachronic perspective”(talk)

SEP 2024: 10th International Conference of the GCLA (DGKL), : “The usualization of not gonna lie” (talk)

JUNE 2024: The 19th Conference of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon): “Monitoring speech timing via auditory feedback in French” (together with Miriam Oschkinat (first author), Philip Hoole, Simone Falk, Simone Dalla Bella; poster presentation)

MAY 2024: 13th International Seminar of Speech Production (ISSP):

“Probing the impact of musical training on the temporal malleability of timing in French” (together with Miriam Oschkinat, Philip Hoole, Simone Falk, Simone Dalla Bella; poster presentation);

“Spatiotemporal features of bilabial geminate and singleton consonants in Italian” (together with Francesco Burroni (first author), Sireemas Maspong, Philip Hoole, James Kirby; poster presentation);

“The role of the supplementary motor area in speech production: Evidence from participants who do, and do not stutter” (together with Charlotte Wiltshire (first author), Anton Gadringer, Rosa Hufschmidt, Philip Hoole; poster presentation)

AUG 2023: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) “Synchronization type matters: Articulatory timing in different rhythmic conditions in persons who stutter” (together with Mona Franke (first author), Simone Falk, Philip Hoole; poster presentation)

NOV 2026 31st LIPP Symposium, Munich: “Digital Linguistics On- and Offline”

NOV 2020 Language & Literature, virtual student conference

2025 – today Representative of Doctoral Candidates of the Graduate School Language and Literature, LMU

2024 – 2025 Representative of Doctoral Candidates of the Class of Language, LMU

2021 – 2023 Volunteer at LMU “Schnupperstunden”

2020 Peer-to-Peer Mentor, LMU

2019 – 2020 Peer-to-Peer-PLUS Mentor, LMU