Matthias Warmuth is a PhD Candidate in Germanic Studies with an interest in linguistics, SLA, and L2 pedagogy. His dissertation focuses on how language death and language attrition, i.e., the process of forgetting a native or first language, affect the pronunciation of Texas German.
More specifically, his research addresses a variety of changes in the sound system, contrasting data collected by Glenn Gilbert in the 1960s with more recent data collected by the TGDP. His focus lies on developments that are most likely due to transfer from American English (AE), the dominant language for all current speakers of TxG. Matthias has been working with the TGDP since 2017.
matthiaswarmuth@utexas.edu