Publications

Monographs

Stein, Simon David. 2022. The phonetics of derived words in English: Tracing morphology in speech production. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783111025476.

Edited volumes

Schmitz, Dominic, Simon David Stein & Viktoria Schneider (eds.). 2025. Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. doi: 10.1515/9783111388694.

Articles

Schmitz, Dominic, Samira Ochs, Anne Rosar, Jeff Roxas, Aline Siegenthaler, Simon David Stein, Lena Völkening & Viktoria Schneider. 2025. Defining gender linguistics: A statement from the editorial team. Gender Linguistics 1. doi: 10.65020/dr8xah93.

Stein, Simon David, & Viktoria Schneider. 2025. Effects of English generic singular they on the gender processing of L1 German speakers. In Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein & Viktoria Schneider (eds.), Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness, 111–126. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. doi: 10.1515/9783111388694-007.

Dorgeloh, Heidrun, Lea Kawaletz, Simon David Stein, Regina Stodden & Stefan Conrad. 2024. Using discourse connectives to test genre bias in masked language models. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2024): 27-38.

Stein, Simon David. In press. “Shūmatsu not yet”: Analyzing the use of English in Japanese popular music. In Jasmin Pfeifer, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Heidrun Dorgeloh, Gero Kunter & Christian Uffmann (eds.), INGO 6.0 – The Proceedings: New empirical Insights about laNguage, presented on a Great day Out in September. Preprint doi: 10.31219/osf.io/nhy67.

Stein, Simon David. 2023. Space rednecks, robot butlers, and feline foreigners: Language attitudes toward varieties of English in videogames. Games and Culture 18.8: 1043-1070. doi: 10.1177/15554120221150156.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2022. How relative frequency and prosodic structure affect the acoustic duration of English derivatives. Laboratory Phonology 13.1. doi: 10.16995/labphon.6445.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2021. Morpho-phonetic effects in speech production: Modeling the acoustic duration of English derived words with linear discriminative learning. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 678712. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.678712.

Schmitz, Dominic, Ingo Plag, Dinah Baer-Henney, & Simon David Stein. 2021. Durational differences of word-final /s/ emerge from the lexicon: Modelling morpho-phonetic effects in pseudowords with linear discriminative learning. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 680889. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680889.

Talks

Stein, Simon David. Coming in 2026. Sonority sounds beautiful, round, friendly, erotic—but why? Effects of iconicity and indexicality on language attitudes. 4^th Iconicity Seminar and 15^th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature. 21–23 February 2026, Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities, Japan.

Stein, Simon David. 2025. Do we like sonority? Indexical and iconic effects in language attitudes. 21. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung. 6–7 October 2025, Leipzig University, Germany.

Stein, Simon David. 2025. Language attitudes: Iconicity or indexicality? The case of /x/. 58^th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 26–29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France.

Stein, Simon David, & Viktoria Schneider. 2025. Is they less biased than he? How German speakers process generic singular pronouns. Invited talk at Queer Science Event. 10 June 2025, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

Stein, Simon David. 2025. Iconicity versus indexicality: The case of /x/. 3^rd Iconicity Seminar. 8–9 February 2025, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2022. Using linear discriminative learning to model the acoustic duration of English derived words. EDLL 2022: The Second International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language. 1–3 August 2022, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2021. Effects of morphological categories without morphemes: Modeling the acoustic duration of English derivatives with linear discriminative learning. 5^th American International Morphology Meeting. 26–29 August 2021, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2021. Modeling the acoustic duration of English derivatives with linear discriminative learning. PaPE: 4^th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference. 21–23 June 2021, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Stein, Simon David. 2021. Videospiele und Sprachideologien: Wie lassen sich Games linguistisch untersuchen? – Videogames and language ideologies: How can we investigate games linguistically? Invited talk at Arbeitskreis Critical Game Studies. 25 May 2021, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2021. The phonetics of derivation: Segmentability effects on the acoustic duration of affixed words in English. Interfaces of Phonetics. 18–19 May 2021, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2021. Modeling derivative durations with linear discriminative learning. FOR 2373 Workshop. 19 March 2021, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2020. Farewell to relative frequency? A closer look at frequency effects on the acoustic duration of English derivatives. Words in the World International Conference 2020. 16–18 October 2020.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2020. Lexical storage and morphological segmentability effects on the production of English derivatives. 19^th International Morphology Meeting. 6–8 February 2020, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2019. Lexical storage and morphological segmentability effects on the production of English derivatives. NZ Ling Soc: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference. 28–29 November 2019, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Stein, Simon David & Ingo Plag. 2019. Lexical storage and morphological segmentability effects on the production of English derivatives. MoProc 2019: International Morphological Processing Conference. 4–6 November 2019, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2019. The phonetics of derivation: Segmentability (and other) effects on the acoustic duration of affixed words. NZILBB Seminar Series. 17 October 2019, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2019. The phonetics of derivation: Segmentability effects on the acoustic duration of affixed words in English. 15^th Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung. 26–27 September 2019, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

Stein, Simon David, & Ingo Plag. 2019. Lexical storage and morphological segmentability in speech production: New evidence from English derivational affixes. 12^th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. 27–30 June 2019, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Posters

Stein, Simon David. 2026. Sonority and language attitudes: Indexicality versus iconicity. OCP23: 23^rd Old-World Conference in Phonology. 14–16 January 2026, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Stein, Simon David. 2025. How do we feel about /x/? The role of iconicity and indexicality for language attitudes. PaPE: 6^th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference. 25–27 June 2025, University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain.

Stein, Simon David, & Viktoria Schneider. 2023. Effects of English generic singular they on the gender processing of L1 German speakers. LILG: Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender. 20–21 July 2023, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.