Dr. Sven Leuckert

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Academic Activities
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Conference Talks
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Sven Leuckert © Sven Ellger

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Dr. Sven Leuckert

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Chair of English Linguistics

Chair of English Linguistics

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Education

  • 2013-2017: PhD studies, TU Dresden
  • 2011-2013: M.A. European Languages, TU Dresden
  • 2007-2011: B.Ed. Teaching Degree (English/German), TU Dresden

Research Interests

  • World Englishes

    • South and Southeast Asian Englishes; English in Madeira; English as a Lingua Franca

  • Applied Linguistics

    • corpus linguistics and computer-mediated communication; lexicology and lexicography of Mountaineering English; language in horror films

  • Morphology and Syntax

    • historical word-formation processes; structural change; non-canonical syntax

Academic Activities

Membership in Editorial Boards:

Peer Review for Journals:

  • Asian Englishes; Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies; Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; English Today; English World-Wide; Frontiers in Communication (Language Sciences); Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences); Heliyon; Journal of English Linguistics; Journal of Medical Internet Research; Journal of Pragmatics; Language and Cognition; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Sciences; Lingua; Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads; Linguistics Vanguard; Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning; Pragmatics; Pragmatics and Society; Research in Corpus Linguistics; Studia Neophilologica; Theory and Society; World Englishes

Publications

Monographs, Textbooks, and Cambridge Element

Leuckert, Sven, Claudia Lange, Tobias Bernaisch, & Asya Yurchenko (2023). Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century: Unity and Diversity in Lexicon and Morphosyntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Elements in World Englishes)
10.1017/9781009323796

Lange, Claudia & Sven Leuckert (2020). Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. (Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides)
10.4324/9780429489433

Leuckert, Sven (2019). Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in World Englishes)
10.4324/9781351000437


Edited Collections and Special Issues

Leuckert, Sven & Teresa Pham (eds.) (fc. 2025). Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Studies in English Language)

Rüdiger, Sofia, Sven Leuckert, & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (eds.) (fc. 2025). World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes)

Rüdiger, Sofia, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld (eds.) (2025). World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (New Directions in World Englishes Research)
10.1515/9781399527866

Buschfeld, Sarah & Sven Leuckert (eds.) (2021). Focus on Orality, Literacy - and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance. Special Issue von Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32(2).
10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/2 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (eds.) (2021). Discourse Markers and World Englishes. Special Issue von World Englishes 40(4).
10.1111/weng.12564 (Open Access)


Journal Articles

Neels, Jakob, Sven Leuckert & Arne Lohmann (fc. 2025). "Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: Assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora." Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Leuckert, Sven (fc. 2025). "Good cheese and nutritious carbs: Evaluation and engagement features in mountaineering food blogs." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 36(2).

Messerli, Thomas C., Daria Dayter, Sven Leuckert, Aatu Liimatta, Hanna Mahler, Axel Bohmann, Gustavo Kozma & Rafaela Tosin (2025). "Digital debating cultures: Communicative practices on Reddit." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 40(1): 227–240..
10.1093/llc/fqaf005 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven (2024). "From Mount Cook to Aoraki? A diachronic analysis of mountain names and naming practices in the New Zealand Alpine Journal." Namenkundliche Informationen 116(1): 231–249.
10.58938/ni744 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven & Asya Yurchenko (2024). "'Her language, herself': The language of female protagonists in horror films." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35(3): 121–147.
10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/10 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven (2024). "'Stop focusing on what the dictionary says!' Metaperspectives on lexicographical resources of Mountaineering English on Reddit." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 45(2): 373–401.
10.1353/dic.2024.a944944

Leuckert, Sven (2024). "Lexicographical resources for mountaineers: A usage survey." Lexicographica 40(1): 277–307.
10.1515/lex-2024-0012 (Open Access)

Buschfeld, Sarah, Sven Leuckert, Claus Weihs, & Andreas Weilinghoff (2024). "How real is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the new normal in linguistics." ICAME Journal 48(1): 1–22.
10.2478/icame-2024-0001 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven (2024). "Moving lexicographical mountains for the community: A comparison of print and online resources of Mountaineering English." International Journal of Lexicography 37(1): 29–49.
10.1093/ijl/ecad032

Leuckert, Sven, Theresa Neumaier, & Asya Yurchenko (2023). "English in Madeira: History and features of a lesser-known variety in the Atlantic." English Today 39(1): 2–11.
10.1017/S0266078421000328 (Open Access)

Yurchenko, Asya, Sven Leuckert, & Claudia Lange (2021). “Comparing written Indian Englishes with the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE).” ICAME Journal 45(1): 179–205.
10.2478/icame-2021-0006 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (2020). “Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English.” English World-Wide 41(1): 33–58.
10.1075/eww.00039.leu

Leuckert, Sven (2017). "How interactional needs shape information structure: An analysis of the discourse functions of topicalization in three L2 varieties of English." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 5(1): 25–42.
10.1515/gcla-2017-0003

Leuckert, Sven (2017). “Typological interference in information structure: The case of topicalization in Asia.“ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65(3): 283–302.
10.1515/zaa-2017-0029

Leuckert, Sven & Theresa Neumaier (2016). “Copula deletion in English as a Lingua Franca in Asia.” 10plus1Living Linguistics 2: 86–103.
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-344764 (Open Access)

Koch, Christopher, Claudia Lange, & Sven Leuckert (2016). ““This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes.” International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2(2): 151–176.
10.1075/ijlcr.2.2.02koc


Contributions to Edited Volumes

Neumaier, Theresa & Sven Leuckert (fc. 2025). “Non-canonical syntax in English as a Lingua Franca: Minus-plurals between language contact and emergent grammar.” Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 307–330. (Studies in English Language)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (fc. 2025). “Talking about (non-)canonicity: A study of linguistic terminology.” Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 14–39. (Studies in English Language)

Rüdiger, Sofia & Sven Leuckert (fc. 2025). “Valuing (Asian) Englishes on YouTube: Using video comments for World Englishes research.” World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Sven Leuckert, & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 175–198. (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes)

Bernaisch, Tobias & Sven Leuckert (2024). “Short-term diachronic and variety-internal approaches to textual functionality in South Asian Englishes: Evidence from newspaper language.” Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative Corpus Approaches within and beyond Linguistics. Eds. Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff, & Lisa Westermayer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 190–214. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 119)
10.1075/scl.119.08tob

Lange, Claudia & Sven Leuckert (2021). “Tag questions and gender in Indian English." Gender in World Englishes. Ed. Tobias Bernaisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69–93.
10.1017/9781108696739.004

Leuckert, Sven & Martin Leuckert (2020). "Towards a digital sociolinguistics: Communities of practice on Reddit." Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Eds. Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 15–40. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98)
10.1075/scl.98.01leu

Labade, Sachin, Claudia Lange, & Sven Leuckert (2020). “English in India: Global aspirations, local identities at the grassroots." Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach towards Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Varieties. Eds. Sarah Buschfeld & Alexander Kautzsch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 85–111.
10.1515/9781474445887-008

Leuckert, Sven (2020). “Rethinking community in linguistics: Language and community in the Digital Age.” Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research. Ed. Bettina Jansen. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 111–125.
10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8_7

Leuckert, Sven & Ashleigh D. Moeller (2020). “Identity through the looking glass: Voices of drag in past and present.” (Dis-)Harmony: Amplifying Voices in Polyphone Cultural Productions. Eds. Julia Andres, Brian Rozema, & Anne Schröder. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 117–136. (Bielefelder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft 30)
link to the book

Koch, Christopher, Claudia Lange, & Sven Leuckert (2018). ““This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes.” Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-Native Englishes. Eds. Samantha Laporte, Sandra C. Deshors & Sandra Götz. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 21–46. (Benjamins Current Topics 98) [reprint]
10.1075/bct.98.02koc

Leuckert, Sven (2018). “Adverbial subordination across variety types: A synchronic analysis of the syntax and semantics of since- and while-clauses in ENL, ESL, and EFL.” Subordination in English. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Eds. Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña & Ignacio Palacios-Martínez. Berlin: de Gruyter, 235–262. (Topics in English Linguistics 101)
10.1515/9783110583571-011


Other Contributions

Leuckert, Sven & Teresa Pham (fc. 2025). “Synopsis: Concepts, approaches, and methods in non-canonical syntax.” Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 331–336. (Studies in English Language)

Pham, Teresa & Sven Leuckert (fc. 2025). “Introduction: New perspectives on non-canonical English syntax.” Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–13. (Studies in English Language)

Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger, & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (fc. 2025). “Englishes online and online Englishes.” World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Sven Leuckert, & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes)

Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier & Sarah Buschfeld (2025). “Synopsis: The present and future of the Dynamic Model.” World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 379–388. (New Directions in World Englishes Research)
10.3366/jj.17733036.27

Neumaier, Theresa, Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger & Sarah Buschfeld (2025). “Introduction: Twenty years of the Dynamic Model.” World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 3–21. (New Directions in World Englishes Research)
10.3366/jj.17733036.8

Pham, Teresa, Sven Leuckert, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Christine Günther, Kathrin Kircili, Claudia Lange, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier, & Sofia Rüdiger (2024). "Defining non-canonicity: An integrated approach to modelling syntactic variation." OSF Preprints.
10.31219/osf.io/92zhg (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven & Sarah Buschfeld (2021). "Modelling spoken and written English: An introduction." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32(2): 7-14.
10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/4 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (2021). "Discourse markers and world Englishes." World Englishes 40(4): 482-487.
10.1111/weng.12535 (Open Access)


Contributions to The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press)

Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (2022). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year’s Work in English Studies 101: 74-97.

Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (2021). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year’s Work in English Studies 100: 80-102.

Leuckert, Sven (2020). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year’s Work in English Studies 99: 114-124.

Leuckert, Sven (2019). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year's Work in English Studies 98: 96-110.

Kautzsch, Alexander & Sven Leuckert (2018). “New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year's Work in English Studies 97: 121-134.


Reviews

Leuckert, Sven (2025). “Review of Loureiro-Porto, Lucía. 2024. Pragmatic Markers in World Englishes: kind of and sort of as a Case in Point. València: Publicacions de la Universitat de València. ISBN: 978-84-1118-306-2. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7203/PUV-OA-307-9” Research in Corpus Linguistics 13(1): 238-242.
10.32714/ricl.13.01.13

Leuckert, Sven (2025). “Raquel P. Romasanta, Probabilistic variability in clausal verb complementation in World Englishes (Linguistic Insights 301). Bern: Peter Lang, 2023. Pp. xvi + 349. ISBN 9783034347020.” English Language and Linguistics FirstView.
10.1017/S1360674324000182

Leuckert, Sven (2022). “Marzieh Sadeghpour and Farzad Sharifian, eds. 2021. Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes. (Cultural Linguistics) Singapore: Springer. xii + 399 pp. EUR 106.99. ISBN 78-981-15-4695-2 (hc). EUR 74.89. ISBN 978-981-15-4698-3 (sc).“ English World-Wide 43(3): 390-396.
10.1075/eww.22002.leu

Leuckert, Sven (2019). “Hoffmann, Sebastian, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Lisa Marie Dillmann (eds.) (2018). Corpora and Lexis. Leiden: Brill. (Language and Computers 81)” ICAME Journal 43: 129-133.
10.2478/icame-2019-0006 (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven (2017). “Pietikäinen, Sari et al. (2016). Sociolinguistics from the Periphery.Small Languages in New Circumstances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.” LinguistList.
link (Open Access)

Leuckert, Sven (2016). “Edwards, Alison (2016). English in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.” LinguistList.
link (Open Access)

Conference Talks

2025, Bristol. "'Un abrazo desde England': A corpus-linguistic investigation of Spanish-English language contact on the YouTube show Spaniards in London" (with Maja Spieß genannt Bongard). 11th Spanish in Society Conference. Juni 2025. University of Bristol.

2024, Vigo. "Ready for the sufferfest: A corpus-based study of –fest in the specialised register of mountaineers." ICAME45. June 2024. Universidade de Vigo.

2024, Vigo. "‘Bad’ Indian English: The lexicology of multilingual swearing" (with Claudia Lange). ICAME45. June 2024. Universidade de Vigo.

2024, Dresden. "Bundók and campinger: Global variation in mountaineering lexicography." Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering. March 2024. TU Dresden.

2024, Wittenberg. "Fachlexikographie am Rande der Professionalisierung: Eine Fallstudie zu 'Mountaineering English'." Wissenschaftssprache, Fachlexikographie, Fachdokumentation – Meeting of the research group "Historische Gelehrten- und Wissenschaftssprachen (HiGeWiS)". March 2024. Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

2023, Dresden. "Xenomorphing gender roles: A corpus-linguistic analysis of gendered language use in Alien and Aliens." Disruptive Imaginations. Joint Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the German Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF). August 2023. TU Dresden.

2023, Düsseldorf. "'I used to really think that uhm languages did have to be simple': Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes" (with Jakob Neels und Arne Lohmann; presented by Jakob Neels). August 2023. ICLC16. HHU Düsseldorf.

2023, Sheffield. "Investigating grammaticalisation via synchronic variation: The development of habitual [used to V] in World Englishes" (with Jakob Neels und Arne Lohmann; presented by Sven Leuckert). July 2023. ICEHL-22. The University of Sheffield.

2023, Brisbane (digital). "Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: Assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora" (with Jakob Neels und Arne Lohmann; presented by Jakob Neels). June 2023. ISLE7. The University of Queensland.

2022, Ljubljana. "English in Madeira or English in Portugal? – A corpus-based study of lexical and morphosyntactic variation" (with Theresa Neumaier and Asya Yurchenko). September 2022. 9th BICLCE. University of Ljubljana.

2022, Ljubljana. "'Asian accent is awesome' – Valuing Englishes on YouTube" (with Sofia Rüdiger). September 2022. 9th BICLCE. University of Ljubljana.

2022, Mainz. "'Her language, her body, herself': The linguistic construction of women in horror films" (with Asya Yurchenko). September 2022. Anglistentag 2022. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

2022, Cambridge. “'How 'real' is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the 'new normal' in Corpus Linguistics'“ (with Sarah Buschfeld, Andreas Weilinghoff and Claus Weihs; presented by Sarah Buschfeld and Claus Weihs). July 2022. ICAME43. Anglia Ruskin University.

2022, Tokyo (digital). “'Science has no business in the mountains': Stance-taking and expert knowledge on r/Mountaineering.“ July 2022. Digital Humanities 2022. The University of Tokyo.

2021, Dortmund. “The plurality of Indian English(es): Syntactic variation in the Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper English (CORINNE)“ (with Asya Yurchenko and Claudia Lange). August 2021. ICAME42. TU Dortmund University.

2021, Bonn (digital). "English in Madeira: A lesser-known variety – at the grassroots?" (with Theresa Neumaier and Asya Yurchenko). June 2020. BAELc10. Universität Bonn.

2021, Joensuu (digital). “Less is more? – Zero number marking in Asian and European ELF” (with Theresa Neumaier). June 2020. ISLE6. University of Eastern Finland.

2021, Joensuu (digital). “Asian Englishes on YouTube” (with Sofia Rüdiger). June 2020. ISLE 6. University of Eastern Finland.

2019, Neuchâtel. “Linguistic creativity on the ‘front page of the internet’: Studying lexical and semantic innovations using Reddit as a corpus.” June 2019. ICAME40. Université de Neuchâtel.

2019, Neuchâtel. “Tracing the origin of ‘intrusive as’ in spoken Indian English” (with Claudia Lange). June 2019. ICAME40. Université de Neuchâtel.

2018, London. “‘Lots of alcohol they have’: Features of dislocation in spoken Korean(ized) English” (with Sofia Rüdiger). July 2018. ISLE5. University College London.

2017, Dresden. “Feature omission in ELF interaction” (with Theresa Neumaier). September 2017. NoCaSynE - International Symposium "New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English". Technische Universität Dresden.

2017, Dresden. “Non-canonical syntax in spoken Korean(ized) English” (with Sofia Rüdiger). September 2017. NoCaSynE - International Symposium "New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English". Technische Universität Dresden.

2017, Prague. “Indian English tag questions revisited: the role of gender and style in social interaction” (with Claudia Lange). May 2017. ICAME38. Charles University.

2016, Hamburg. “Topicalization in Asian Englishes – a transfer feature? A comparison of word-order typologies.” September 2016. Anglistentag 2016. University of Hamburg.

2015, Tübingen. “‘Immediately they say it’s not possible’: Topikalisierungsstrategien im asiatischen Englisch.” Oktober 2015. 7. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (STaPs). Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.

2015, Trier. ““This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – Tracing the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes” (with Christopher Koch and Claudia Lange; presented by Christopher Koch). May 2015. ICAME36. University of Trier.

2014, Noida. “This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – the origins of the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian Englishes” (with Christopher Koch and Claudia Lange). Dezember 2014. IAWE20. Amity University Noida.

2014, Dresden. “Non-finiteness in language contact: A corpus-based study of Asian Englishes.” July 2014. 4. Korpuslinguistik- und Digital Humanities-Tag. Technische Universität Dresden.

2014, Freiburg i. Br. “Topicalization in Asian Englishes.” July 2014. Frequency Effects in Language Contact: Asian Englishes. Workshop at Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg.

Poster Presentations

2018, Bonn. “Introducing LinguApp: An Android-based teaching app for introductions to linguistics” (with Martin Leuckert). September 2018. Anglistentag 2018. Universität Bonn.

2016, Poznań. “Zero copula in spoken Asian ELF” (with Theresa Neumaier). 18-21 September 2016. 4th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4). Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

2015, Dresden. “ELAS: E-Learning in der Anglistischen Sprachwissenschaft“ (with Christopher Koch). 25 February 2015. 1. E-Teaching-Day. Dresden University of Technology.

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