Speech Dynamics Lab

In a joint project with Simon Roessig and Doris Mücke, Lena found signatures of visual prosody in the kinematic profiles of speech-accompanying head motion, differentiating focus conditions in monologic as well as dialogic settings.

Lena is standing on a stage, next to the sign "6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe", giving a talk. Behind her, you can see a slide on experimental methods.

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A big thanks to the organisers of #PaPE2025 for putting together a great conference on the stunning island of #Mallorca @uib.cat! Within a satellite workshop on #multimodality, Lena Pagel was able to present our latest work on the role of continuous head movements in the encoding of focus structure.

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CONGRATULATIONS for this wonderful habilitation to @annehermes.bsky.social in Paris @lppparis.bsky.social! 🥳

Photo of Sam Kirkham giving a talk. He is standing in front of a white wall and pointing towards a slide that shows results on phonetic accommodation.

As part of the #ViTraLiP transnational course, our virtual guest was @samkirkham.bsky.social from Lancaster University. During our exchange in #Paris, we were able to attend his talk at the #SRPP colloquium. Thanks to @lppparis.bsky.social for inviting us! Read more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.

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We are happy to report that last semester's #ViTraLiP (Virtual Transnational Linguistic Project) co-operative Master seminar between @unicologne.bsky.social and @upcite.bsky.social was a great success! We particularly enjoyed our exchange in #Paris - find out more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.

We're happy to have Lyle Tadmor join our lab! In her PhD work, Lyle investigates #articulatory and #respiratory coordination, to gain insight into #aging and #Parkinson's Disease. She is supervised by Michael Barbe (@uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social, neurology) and Doris Mücke (@unicologne.bsky.social).

Welcome to the lab, Erik Morris! Supervised by Doris Mücke in Cologne (@unicologne.bsky.social) and Ioana Chitoran and Hi-Yon Yoo in Paris (@upcite.bsky.social), Erik is working on #dialect exposure and speaker variability in L2 acquisition, investigating segmental and prosodic features of #Greek.

We're thrilled to welcome two new PhD students to our #SpeeDyLab group! 🥳 Lyle Tadmor and Erik Morris were awarded scholarships by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities in Cologne, and have started to work on their projects in April. Great to have you on board!

The Offermann-Hergarten Foundation has awarded the 2024 Offermann-Hergarten Prize to @tabeathies.bsky.social and @aviadalbert.bsky.social for their dissertations honoring outstanding young researchers at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Congrats! 🎉

Justine is standing on the left-hand side of a poster that presents results on sign language coarticulation. She is in the middle of talking and is looking as well as gesturing towards the poster.

Recently, Justine Mertz presented her work on sign language kinematics at #TISLR15 in Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia. She even won the Early Career Researcher (ECR) award from the Sign Language Linguistics Society #SLLS! 🥳

Cheers to 10 incredible years of collaboration, discovery, and growth! 🎉 In October, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our research network "Brain Modulation and Speech Motor Control". We’re proud of how far we’ve come!

#10YearsStrong #ResearchCommunity #anniversary

Yesterday, Justine Mertz was invited to present her work on sign language coarticulation in the Phonology Colloquium at Goethe Universität Frankfurt. She was super excited to present the new results obtained with Lena Pagel, Doris Mücke and Giusy Turco, and they shared her enthusiasm! 🤗

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
Lena Pagel, Simon Roessig and Doris Mücke just published a paper in #LabPhon on articulatory signatures of prosodic prominence in habitual and loud speech. Check it out here: journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...!

On behalf of Simon Roessig, Mortaza, Taheri-Ardali, Doris Mücke and herself, Lena Pagel presented novel findings on the prosodic realisation of focus types in Persian. Find the paper here: www.isca-archive.org/speechprosod....

Based on a joint project with Justine Mertz and Doris Mücke, Guiseppina Turco and Lena Pagel showed how Electromagnetic Articulography can be used to capture gradiency and categoriality in French Sign Language coarticulation: www.isca-archive.org/speechprosod...

It's a wrap! 👏 Thanks to the organising team of Speech Prosody in Leiden for a great conference & to the research community for all of these inspiring presentations and discussions. Check out the comments to find out more about the two posters from our group!

Doris Mücke had the honour to present her research on the multidimensionality of prosodic prominence as a keynote speaker at this year's #issp2024. Thanks for the great discussions!

We are very grateful for a fantastic week at #issp2024 in Autrans, discussing our research with a great community! We are back home full of new input and ideas 💡 To learn more, check out our proceedings papers: issp24.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... (starting pages 26, 73, 125 & 234).

📢New Paper out on French #sign language production by JustineMertz ! Have a look: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/6...

📣New Paper Alert!
In this paper, we state that introducing stochastic noise to different levels of the Articulatory Phonology/Task Dynamics model has the potential to describe impaired speech pattern: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

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