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Dr. Frederik Hartmann

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Linguistics

Email: Frederik.Hartmann@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, The University of Konstanz - Germany, 2021
    Major: Linguistics

Professional Memberships

  • Society for German Linguistics. (June 2023 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 4290 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 5290 - Natural Language Processing, 7 courses.
  • CSCE 6290 - Advanced Topics in Human/Machine Intelligence, 2 courses.
  • INFO 6660 - Readings in Information Science, 1 course.
  • INFO 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 4 courses.
  • LING 4140 - Computational Linguistics, 3 courses.
  • LING 4900 - Special Problems, 2 courses.
  • LING 5360 - Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, 1 course.
  • LING 5410 - Foundations of Computational Linguistics, 3 courses.
  • LING 5412 - Advanced Models of Language, 2 courses.
  • LING 5415 - Special Topics in Computational Linguistics, 2 courses.
  • LING 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Workshop, University of California, Los Angeles, 8 participants. (October 2023 - October 2023).
  • Workshop, University of North Texas, 20 participants. (May 2023 - May 2023).
  • Workshop, University of Potsdam, 15 participants. (April 2023 - April 2023).

Directed Student Learning

  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Linguistics. (January 2023).
  • Major Professor, "How MUSE Models Language: An Evaluation of MUSE’s Formation of Multilingual Semantic Spaces," Linguistics. (January 2023 - May 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Hartmann, F. (2023). Germanic phylogeny. 304. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Hartmann, F. (2020). The Vandalic Language - Origins and Relationships. 157. Heidelberg, Winter. https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-4752-9/Hartmann_The_Vandalic_Language/

    • Book Chapter

  • Bäumler, L., Hartmann, F., Elissa, P., Van den Berghe, C.Q., Weiland, V. (2023). Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish Acoustic vowel analysis using multilevel regression models. Corpus dialectology. 106 – 132. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.110.05bau

    • Book Review

  • Hartmann, F. (2020). Review of Edgar Büttner (Hrg.) (2017). Unser vrouwen klage / Der Spiegel. (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek 124), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 275-276. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48594632
  • Hartmann, F. (2020). Review of Rudolf Schützeichel (2012). Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch. 7., durchgesehene und verbesserte Auflage, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 116-118. S. Hirzel Verlag. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48594581

    • Conference Proceeding

  • Hartmann, F. (2019). Predicting historical phonetic features using deep neural networks: A case study of the phonetic system of Proto-Indo-European. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 98-108. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/W19-4713/

    • Journal Article

  • Heiszenberger, E., Reinisch, E., Hartmann, F., Brown, E., Pustka, E. (2024). Perceptually easy second language phones are not always easy: the role of orthography and phonology in schwa realization in second language French. Language and Speech. 32.
  • Hartmann, F., Walkden, G. (2024). The strength of the phylogenetic signal in syntactic data. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. 1 (9) 1-25.
  • Hartmann, F. (2024). An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families. 330-354. Diachronica.
  • Hartmann, F., Roberts, S., Valdes, P., Grollemund, R. (2024). Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models. 26. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
  • Hartmann, F., Jäger, G. (2023). Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees. 16. Open Research Europe.
  • Hartmann, F. (2022). Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems. Lingua. (273) 103308.
  • Hartmann, F. (2022). Methodological problems in quantitative research on environmental effects in phonology. 95-119.
  • Pustka, E., Heiszenberger, E., Hartmann, F. (2022). Pronunciation in progress: A longitudinal study on the development of obligatory liaison in French as a foreign language. 45-88.
  • Hartmann, F., Riegger, C. (2022). The Burgundian language and its phylogeny – A cladistical investigation. 42-80.
  • Luo, J., Hartmann, F., Santus, E., Barzilay, R., Cao, Y. (2021). Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 9 69-81.
  • Hartmann, F. (2021). Old Frisian breaking and labial mutation revisited. 462-475.
  • Hartmann, F. (2021). The phonetic value of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals - A computational study using deep neural networks. 1-59.

    • Webpage

  • Hartmann, F. (2017). Gotisch-Lernmodul.

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), GramAdapt Symposium, Geospatial models for analyzing contact effects, Helsinki, Finland. (2024 - 2024).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang)., Causal approaches to investigating language evolution: New studies of the association between phonology and climate, Madison, WI, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Workshop at the University of Potsdam, Workshop: Statistik neu entdecken (‘Workshop: discover statistics’), University of Potsdam, Germany. (2023 - 2023).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Workshop at the University of Vienna, Intensivkurs gemischte Modelle (‘Intensive course: mixed models’), University of Vienna, Austria. (2022 - 2022).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Workshop at the University of Vienna, Statistische Methoden für Linguisten (‘Statistical methods for linguists’), Austria. (2021 - 2021).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Old Frisian Summer School, Computational Models for Language Contact and Language Shift, Netherlands. (2021 - 2021).

    • Keynote/Plenary Address

  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 7th workshop of the SimPhon network, Is sound change predictable? Deep learning and diachrony, Germany. (2019 - 2019).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Advantages of advanced quantitative methods in linguistics, Vienna, Austria. (2024 - 2024).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Replication & reproducibility in quantitative typology, 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Replicability and Causality in Typological Research, Singapore, Singapore. (2024 - 2024).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences, Causal approaches for testing the effect of humidity on tone, Cambridge, UK, United Kingdom. (2024 - 2024).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Salmons, J. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, The Verschärfung and Germanic subgrouping: Inheritance by proxy, Bloomington, IN, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Thirty-Fourth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC), Simulation Models of Wave-like Diversification: A Novel Tool for IndoEuropean Cladistics?, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), Analysing the early development of the Germanic family using Bayesian phylogenetics and agent-based models, Canada. (2023 - 2023).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics Colloquium, Methodological pitfalls in research on environmental effects in phonology: a computational investigation, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Third AMC symposium: Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?, Syntax vs. phonology in language relatedness, United Kingdom. (2022 - 2022).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics Colloquium, Agent-based models of language diversification and language change, Germany. (2022 - 2022).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families, United Kingdom. (2022 - 2022).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP5), Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Nichols, J. (Author & Presenter), Workshop on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Diedrich Westermann, org. by Tom Güldemann, The greater Sahara in the historical linguistic geography of Africa, Germany. (2021 - 2021).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Proto-Indo-European Reconstruction: Problems, possibilities and new perspectives, Cambridge, Prospects of computational internal reconstruction: machine learning and phonological predictability, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Germanic phylogeny: computational simulations and phylogenetics, Germany. (2021 - 2021).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 10th Conference on Frisian Linguistics, Old Frisian breaking revisited - Context and chronology of a complex change, Netherlands. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Tomaschek, F. (Author), Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung (P&P), Sound change in German verbs: effects of paradigmatic and lexical confusability, Germany. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Vandalisch – Versuch einer Analyse (‘Vandalic – An analysis attempt’), Germany. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), RUSE symposium, Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using deep neural networks, United Kingdom. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Nomen et Gens Tagung 2019, Neues zu einer alten Sprache — die Korpuslinguistik und das Vandalische (‘News from an old language – corpus linguistics and the Vandalic language’), Germany. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, The phonetic value of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals, Germany. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Why does language change? Approaches and discussions: a dialogue between linguistics and philosophy, Germany. (2019 - 2019).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Die Germanen – Herkunft und Entwicklung aus linguistischer Perspektive (‘The Germanic peoples – Origins and developments from a linguistic perspective’), Germany. (2018 - 2018).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics colloquium, E-Learning: Lernmodule für Gotisch und Althochdeutsch (‘E-learning: units for Gothic and Old High German’), Germany. (2017 - 2017).

    • Poster

  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang), Investigating the diachronic development of phonological complexity as a latent process - A computational study using deep neural networks, Madison, WI, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Luo, J. (Author & Presenter), Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior, United Kingdom. (2020 - 2020).
  • Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Predicting Historical Phonetic Features using Deep Neural Networks: A Case Study of the Phonetic System of Proto-Indo-European, Italy. (2019 - 2019).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Xiao, T. (Principal), Ding, J. (Co-Principal), Albert, M.V. (Supporting), Alam, Z.S. (Supporting), Hartmann, F. (Supporting), Wang, Y. (Supporting), Liang, L. (Supporting), Chen, H. (Supporting), Du, J. (Supporting), Azad, R.K. (Supporting), "NSF REU site: Beyond Language: Training to Create and Share Vector Embeddings across Application," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $403547 Funded. (2023 - 2025).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Computing Committee. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Admissions Commitee. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2023 - Present).
  • Faculty Advisor, UNT Linguistics Student Organization. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2024 - 2024).