Phonetic and technological aspects of speaker characteristics

Seminar held at the Venice International University October 2007

 

 

Provisional timetable                   doc

Literature and student talks                 doc

 

1. Accent variation and sound change       (Tues. 16.10.07)

Jonathan Harrington             Compensatory coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in Standard Southern British: an acoustic and perceptual study: ppt

Felicitas Kleber                      Studies of variation in German accents:                      ppt

Agnes Ch. Pfaffinger             Geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede und Sprachwandel:      ppt

Anna Rühl                              How gradual is sound change?                        pdf

Julia Fischer-Weppler           The perception of dialect        ppt

 

2. Physiological variation between speakers         (Wed. 17.10.07)

Philip Hoole and Barbara Kühnert   Tongue-jaw Coordination in German Vowel Production  pdf

                                                            Supplementary material           pdf

Ulrich Reubold                       Longitudinal studies of ageing                                     ppt

Veronika Neumeyer              Welchen Effekt hat uneinheitliches Vokaltraktwachstum auf die Formanten eines Vokals?        ppt

Lina Hecker                           Vowels and speech production: gender differences.   ppt

Antonia Schulz                       Speech production: Gender and age differences in VOT        ppt

 

3. Speaker characteristics and technology           (Thurs. 18.10.07)

Florian Schiel                         Speaker Recognition =Speaker Identification, Speaker Verification                 ppt

Uwe Reichel                           Speaker Adaptation in Speech Synthesis         pdf

                                                            Additional references:            pdf

Meral Akyol                           Genderspezifische Spracherkennung               pdf

Clara Tillmanns                     Speech and speaker normalization (in vowel normalization)  ppt

 

4. Speaker characteristics, sociophonetics and phonetic/phonological processing   (Friday 19.10.07, Sat. 20.10.07)

Katalin Mády                         Soziophonetik und Produktion             pdf

                                                Sound-Dateien dazu:   zip

Tina John                               Perception of voicing in two dialects              pdf

Angelika Giglberger              Die Perzeption von Maskulinität und Perzeption von Maskulinität und sexueller Orientierung          pdf

Marion Jaeger                       Steuerung artikulatorischer Anpassungsprozesse        pdf

Carolin Grube                        Die gegenseitige Beeinflussung von L2 und L1 bei bilingualen Sprechern        ppt

Sarah Stolze                           Emotionen in Sprache.            ppt