Aviad Albert

Am I the only person who is extremely unhappy with the new design of projects on OSF (osf.io)? Files and GitHub links have now moved to the least intuitive location, making existing repositories so much less useful. Hey @cos.io, please reconsider this change! 🙄🙏

Yay, Simona. Well deserved!

Rest in Peace Bill Labov, age 97

I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did
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You can find more details about my book, “A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, in previous posts:
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The Offermann-Hergarten foundation was set up by Anna-Maria Offermann-Hergarten to honor special achievements by early-career researchers in humanities. See: phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/au...
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From left to right: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hüttemann (Dean of Research), Dr. Aviad Albert, Roland Held (representative of the foundation), Prof. Dr. Nicolas Pethes (jury chairman), Dr. Tessa Gengnagel, Dr. Adrian Meyer, Dr. Nicolai Busch, Prof. Dr. Stefan Grohé (Dean) and Alfred Fuhrmann (representative of the foundation). The two other prize winners, Dr. Eva-Maria Cersovsky and Dr. Tabea Thies, are only represented by their books.

I am very happy to announce that my book is among the winners of the 2024 Offermann-Hergarten prize for published dissertations from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne. I couldn't be more grateful! 🙏
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ProPer: PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy A workflow for acoustic analysis of speech prosody based on continuous measurements of periodic energy and F0 (requires Praat and R). ProPer analyses cover a wide range of prosodic phenomena, includi...

We used the ProPer analysis toolbox to uncover some unexpected trends related to both pitch contours and syllabic weight distribution.
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Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German Previous studies report that Italian learners of German transfer their L1 prosody to their L2 when marking information status prosodically within noun…

We analyzed the prosody of Italian learners of German in a new paper on Journal of Phonetics, led by Simona Sbranna and co-authored with Martine Grice:
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The call for the fellowship program 2025 at the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne is out now! See the link below for more details!

This is definitely violating some constraints! Brilliant!!! 🤣

ProPer is an open source toolbox that presents many advantages to acoustic analysis of prosodic aspects: prominence relations, pitch contour and dynamic speech rate. (10/10)

ProPer: PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy A workflow for acoustic analysis of speech prosody based on continuous measurements of periodic energy and F0 (requires Praat and R). ProPer analyses cover a wide range of prosodic phenomena, includi...

Finally, I present in this book a full overview of the acoustic analysis toolbox that we developed in Cologne — ProPer (PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy): osf.io/28ea5/ (9/10)

PRiORS can do a lot of heavy lifting in explaining the roles of pitch and rhythm in speech, and it serves as the theoretical backbone of the current proposal. (8/10)

In this book I also present PRiORS (Perceptual Regimes of Repetitive Sound) — a general framework to account for linguistic models based on auditory perception. (7/10)

[ALBERT] Sonority in Modern Hebrew Sonority in Modern Hebrew Aviad Albert (reviewers: Daniel Asherov, Matthew Gordon) download paper and reviews Abstract: This paper investigates the phonotactics of Modern Hebrew as a means to demon…

Further corpus-based evidence for NAP was also previously published in a paper in Radical: radical.cnrs.fr/albert-sonor... (6/10)

Modeling Sonority in Terms of Pitch Intelligibility With the Nucleus Attraction Principle Sonority is a fundamental notion in phonetics and phonology, central to many descriptions of the syllable and various useful predictions in phonotactics. Although widely accepted, sonority lacks a cl...

The experimental evidence I present for NAP was previously published in a paper with Bruno Nicenboim in Cognitive Science: doi.org/10.1111/cogs... (5/10)

I introduce The Nucleus Attraction Principle (NAP) to account for well-formedness in phonotactics, as an alternative to the traditional Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP). (4/10)

Sonority in this work stems from auditory perception. Specifically, it is the reflection of a bottom-up process that shaped syllables as pitch-bearing units in all language systems. I suggest that sonority is tightly linked to periodic energy in the acoustic signal. (3/10)

I provide a comprehensive and decisive answer to a century-old question in linguistics: What is the phonetic basis of sonority? (2/10)

Book cover of "A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, Language Science Press

My book, "A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, is available on Language Science Press (open access): langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Read on the to see what it’s all about… (1/10)
#sonority #pitch #prosody #phonetics #phonology