SpeechNet BaWü+

Institute of English Linguistics (IfLA)

Information about SpeechNet BaWü+ project

  

SpeechNet BaWü+

SpeechNet BaWü+ is a research network of (female) experimental linguists working on speech. The scientists are located at the southern German universities of Freiburg, Konstanz, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Trier. The members of SpeechNet have expertise in cross-language and native- versus second-language processing with special focus in prosody and in listening to variable and accented speech, with different methodological approaches. The network provides a platform for mutual exchange on experimental speech research in the region (and beyond), thereby enriching the scientific learning experience for early career researchers and fostering national and international collaborations.

TiPToP: Trends in pedagogical transmission of prosody. October 12-13, 2021 - virtual conference

Workshop "Trends in Pedagogical Transmission of Prosody"

Ann-Kathrin's and Katharina's research stay in Sydney and meeting with Anne Cutler and Heather Kember

Ann-Kathrin's and Katharina's research stay in Sydney and meeting with Anne Cutler and Heather Kember

Project meeting with Anne Cutler and Heather Kember in Freiburg, June 2016

First SpeechNet BaWü meeting in Tübingen, February 2016

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, German Department - German Linguistics

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, English Department and department of psychology

Universität Konstanz, Department of Linguistics

Universität Stuttgart, Institute of English Linguistics

Universität Trier, department of phonetics

Former members: 

  • Dr. Yuki Asano
  • Ann-Kathrin Grohe
  • Dr. Margaret Zellers

1. Andrea Weber (University of Tübingen)

Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2021). Intelligibility and recall of sentences spoken by adult and child talkers wearing face masks. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 1674-1681.
 
Truong, T. L., Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2021). The impact of face masks on the recall of spoken sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 142-144.
 
Asano, Y., Yuan, C., Grohe, A.-K., Weber, A., Antoniou, M., & Cutler, A. (2020). Uptalk interpretation as a function of listening experience. In N. Minematsu, M. Kondo, T. Arai, & R. Hayashi (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020 (pp. 735-739). Tokyo: ISCA.
 
Kessler, R., Weber, A. & Friedrich, C. K. (2020). Activation of literal word meanings in idioms: Evidence from eye tracking and ERP experiments. Language and Speech. 0023830920943625. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920943625
 
Truong, T. L., Schild, U., Friedrich, C., & Weber, A. (2019). Phonetic-to-lexical mapping in listening to adult and child speech. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2543-2547). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
 
Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2018). Memory advantage for produced words and familiar native accents. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2018.1499659
 
Kember, H., Grohe, A.-K., Zahner, K., Braun, B., Weber, A., & Cutler, A. (2017). Similar prosodic structure perceived differently in German and English. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, (pp. 1388-1392). Stockholm, Sweden.
 
Asano, Y., & Weber, A. (2016). Listener sensitivity to foreign-accented speech with grammatical errors. Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.) (2016). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1775 - 1780).
 
Grohe, A.-K., Downing, M., & Weber, A. (2016). Similarity in global accent promotes generalized learning of accent markers. Proceedings of the 16th Speech Science and Technology Conference, (pp. 61-64). Sydney, Australia.
 
Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2016). The Penefit of salience: salient accented, but not unaccented words reveal accent adaptation effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 864.
 
Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2016). Learning to comprehend foreign-accented speech by means of production and listening training. Language Learning, 66, 187-209.

 

2. Bettina Braun (University of Konstanz)

Braun, B., Czeke, N., Rimpler, J., Zinn, C., Probst, J., Goldlücke, B., Kretschmer, J., & Zahner-Ritter, K. (in press). Remote testing of the familiar word effect with non-dialectal and dialectal German-learning 1-2-year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology
 
Kutscheid, S., Zahner, K., Leeman, A. & Braun, B. (2021). How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2021.1946109)
 
Dehé, N.,  Braun, B.,  Einfeldt, M.,  Wochner, D. &  Zahner, K. (2020). The prosody of rhetorical questions: A cross-linguistic view. Linguistische Berichte 31, 1-42 (ms).
 
ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 3 (1), 24-52.
 
Zahner, K., Kutscheid, S. & Braun, B. (2019). Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical stress. Journal of Phonetics 74, 75-95.
 
Braun, B., N. Dehé, J. Neitsch, D. Wochner & Zahner, K. (2019). The prosody of rhetorical and information-seeking questions in German.  Language and Speech. 62(4), 779-807. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918816351.
 
Braun, B., Asano, Y. & Dehé, N. (2019). When (not) to look for contrastive alternatives: the role of pitch accent type and additive particles. Language and Speech. 62(4), 751–778.
 
Zahner, K., Pohl, M. & Braun, B. (2016). The limits of metrical segmentation: intonation modulates infants' extraction of embedded trochees. Journal of Child Language 43(6), 1338-1364. (ms)

 

3. Sabine Zerbian (University of Stuttgart)

Turco, G. & Zerbian, S. (2021). Processing of Prosody and Semantics in Sepedi and L2 English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-020-09746-z

S. Zerbian & G. Turco. (2019): Processing focus and accents across dialects. In S. Calhoun et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (2272-2276). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

N. Schauffler, M. Zellers & S. Zerbian (2019). Stress shift and prosodic focus marking in L1 and L2 English. In S. Calhoun et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (2499-2503). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

S. Zerbian, G. Turco, N. Schauffler, M. Zellers, A. Riester. (2016). Contrastive topic constituents in German. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 345- 349. Boston.

 

4. Adriana Hanulíková (University of Freiburg)

Hanulíková, A. (2021). Do faces speak volumes? Social biases in speech comprehension and evaluation across three age groups. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259230

Levy, H. & Hanulíková, A. (2021). Language input effects on children’s words and vowels: An accent categorization and rating study. Language Sciences 89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101447

Levy, H., Hanulíková, A. (2019). Variation in children’s vowel production: Effects of language exposure and lexical frequency. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 10(1): 9. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.131 more

Levy, H., Konieczny, L., Hanulíková, A. (2019). Processing of unfamiliar accents in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of type and amount of accent experience. Journal of Child Language, 46/2, 368-392.  DOI:10.1017/S030500091800051X

 

5. Katharina Zahner (University of Trier)

Braun, B., Czeke, N., Rimpler, J., Zinn, C., Probst, J., Goldlücke, B., Kretschmer, J., & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2021). Remote Testing of the Familiar Word Effect With Non-dialectal and Dialectal German-Learning 1–2‑Year-Olds. Frontiers in psychology, 12.
 
Kutscheid, S., Zahner-Ritter, K., Leemann, A. & Braun, B. (2021) How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1946109
 
Zahner, K., Kutscheid, E. & Braun, B. (2019). Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical prominence. Journal of Phonetics, 74, 75-95.
 
Zahner, K. & Yu, J. (2019). Compensation strategies in non-native English and German. Proc. of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, Australia, 1670-1674.
 
Yu, J. & Zahner, K. (2018). Truncation and compression in Southern German and Australian English. Proc. of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2018), Hyderabad, India, 1833-1837.
 
Kember, H., Grohe, A.-K., Zahner, K., Braun, B., Weber, A. & Cutler, A. (2017). Similar prosodic structure perceived differently in German and English. Proc. of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, 1388-1392.
 
Zahner, K., Kember, H. & Braun, B. (2017). Mind the peak: When museum is temporarily understood as musical in Australian English. Proc. of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, 1223-1227.
  • TiPToP: On 12/13 October 2021 we conducted a very successful workshop with over 80 participants, 5 Keynote talks and 21 oral and poster presentations on Trends in pedagocial transmission of prosody.

    Prosody is one of the aspects learners often struggle with when learning foreign languages (L2). The teaching of prosody is in fact still wildly overlooked, both in L1 and L2 – even though explicit prosodic knowledge will help to improve the learner’s language skills in both intelligibility and comprehension.

    TiPToP     was a great start to bridge the gap between prosodic research and research on teaching practices by bringing together researchers working on cross-linguistic aspects of prosody, on prosody in L2 acquisition, and the teaching of prosody. For details please visit the workshop website.

Invited speakers:

  • Anne Cutler (MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University)
  • Lieke van Maastricht (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Tamara Rathcke (University of Kent)
  • Marnie Reed (Boston University, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development)
  • Christiane Ulbrich (University of Konstanz)

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  • Workshop on "Processing prosody across languages, varieties and nativeness";

31.8.-1.9.2017 at the University of Tuebingen.

Doctoral students working on different aspects related to prosody processing in different languages are invited to present their work. For workshop details klick here.

Key-note speaker:

  • Anne Cutler (MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University)

Invited speakers:

  • Sarah A. Bibyk (Center for Language Sciences, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dept., University of Rochester / Vanderbilt University)
  • Heather Kember (MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University)
  • Kiwako Ito (The Ohio State University)
  • Giuseppina Turco (Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Sorbinne Nouvelle, Paris)

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  • SpeechNet BaWü and Prof. Anne Cutler (University of Western Sydney) have received funding (16.000 Euro) under the 2015-2016 Universities Australia – Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme for the project “Processing prosody across languages, varieties and nativeness”!!!

Funding period: 2016 + 2017

  • JProf. Adriana Hanulíková external referee for PhD Thesis (Katharina Zahner, supervision: Prof. Dr. Betina Braun, Prof. Dr. Janet Grijzenhout)
  • Prof. Anne Cutler, mentor in the MEiN 2016 programme (Mentoring with Experts and international Networking) funded by the University of Konstanz (awarded to Katharina Zahner)
  • Prof. Anne Cutler, mentor in the Zukunftskolleg mentorship programme (awarded to Katharina Zahner)

Further information

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Sabine Zerbian

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Professor English Phonology

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