MAMPF
Methoden und Ansätze moderner phonetischer Forschung

Sommersemester 2025

23.04. Lehrbesprechung WS25/26

30.04. Marianne Pouplier, IPS
Speakers, listeners, languages: Coarticulatory variability and contrast in spoken language dynamics

07.05. Santiago Barreda, UC Davis
Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation

14.05. no Mampf (TAI Conference)

28.05. Sireemas Maspong, IPS
Articulatory characteristics of vowel length: Intrinsic vs extrinsic accounts

04.06. Lauren Hall-Lew, University of Edinburgh
The indexical order and models of sound change

11.06. Abdullah Badr, Universität des Saarlandes

18.06. Florian Schiel, IPS
Insect Noise and the Development of Sound Systems

25.06.

02.07. Mary Stevens, IPS
Sound change proceeds via communal and generational change: longitudinal evidence from /s/-retraction in Australian English

09.07. Johanna-Pascale Roy, Université Laval
Receiving a cochlear implant in adulthood: a longitudinal study of speech production and perception in adults with prelingual deafness

16.07.

23.07. Adèle Jatteau, Université de Lille

Wintersemester 2024/25

16.10.

23.10. Shahin Tavakoli, University of Geneva
Exploring British accents: Modelling the trap–bath split with functional data analysis

30.10. Charles Chang, IPS/Boston University
Investigating predictors of regressive cross-linguistic influence in multilingual speech

06.11. Besprechung Institutsinterna, Lehrbesprechung

13.11. Bernd Möbius, Universität des Saarlandes
Information Density and Phonetic Variation

20.11. Khalil Iskarous, USC Los Angeles
Getting dynamical theories of prosody to talk to each other

27.11. Internal meeting: Markus Jochim, IPS
Tools for IPS institute members

04.12.

11.12.

18.12. no Mampf (talk cancelled)

08.01. Robert Mailhammer, Western Sydney University
A stop manner opposition in 3 Australian languages: Duration and voicing as phonetic parameters

15.01. Johanna Cronenberg, Université Paris Cité
A dynamic analysis of the diphthong-hiatus contrast in naturalistic Spanish and Portuguese

22.01. Anne Hermes, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle
Articulatory adaptations in individuals with Moebius Syndrome

29.01. Štefan Beňuš, Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre
Challenges in conversational entrainment

05.02. Doris Mücke, Universität zu Köln
Dynamics of prominence marking in spoken language and sign language

Sommersemester 2024

17.04. Besprechung Institutsinterna

24.04. Jailyn Peña, IPS
The Danish voice quality contrast: F0 and HNR

01.05. Feiertag, kein Mampf

08.05.

15.05. MA-Besprechung

22.05. Jason Shaw, Yale University
Revisiting the gesture-intrinsic approach to prosody with a revised gesture dynamics

29.05. Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Universität Aarhus
Speech sound training in seniors: The effect of training on speech perception

05.06. Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh
Analyzing representations of self-supervised speech models

12.06. Alessandro Vietti, Freie Universität Bozen-Bolzano
The phonetic meaning of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) for vowels

19.06. Barbara Plank, LMU
Natural Language Processing for non-standard languages and dialects - challenges and current approaches

26.06. Catalina Torres, Universität Zürich
Intonational scaling and the linearisation of syntactic constituents in Zurich German

03.07. Cerys Hughes, UMass Amherst
Modeling the nasal vowel inventories predicted by phonetic biases and learning

10.07. Sarah Schimke, LMU
Linguistic and cognitive predictors of noncanonical sentence comprehension in adolescent German learners of English

17.07. Nicolai Pharao, Universität Kopenhagen
Prosodic change in apparent time and real time

Wintersemester 2023/24

18.10. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester
Adaptive speech production: Targeted millisecond changes in pronunciation as a function of miscommunication

25.10. Simone Falk, Université de Montréal
Linking rhythmic skills and speech motor development: the case of stuttering

01.11. Feiertag, kein Mampf

08.11. Francesco Burroni, IPS
Lexical tones are timed to supralaryngeal articulatory events

15.11.

22.11. Lehrbesprechung SS24

29.11.

06.12. Shahin Takavoli, Geneva !!!Postponed!!!
Exploring British accents: Modelling the trap–bath split with functional data analysis

13.12. Felicitas Kleber, IPS
Cue reweighting and trading relations in the signaling of the (emerging) fortis/lenis contrast in German varieties

20.12.

10.01. Magdalen Connolly, LMU
The g/ǧ issue in Egyptian Arabic: Some methodological considerations

17.01.

24.01. Marianne Pouplier, IPS
Das funkelnagelneue IPS Laborvotum (The brand new ethics vote)

31.01. Yiya Chen, Leiden
Perceptual learning of lexical tone

07.02. Marina Frank, Marburg
Vowel merger in spoken Standard German? Production and perception of /eː/ and /ɛː/

Sommersemester 2023

19.04. Nadège Fournier, Université de Montréal
Second dialect acquisition: The case of French immigrants in Montréal

26.04. MA Besprechung

03.05. Mariapaola D'Imperio, Aix-Marseille University & Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS
Individual differences and the prosodic-meaning mapping

10.05. Bob Ladd, University of Edinburgh
Prominence is relative in two different ways

17.05. Jessamyn Schertz, University of Toronto
The stability of individual differences in phonetic imitation across features and tasks

24.05. MA Besprechung

31.05. Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, University of Manchester
/aɪ/-raising, Stratal Phonology, and the life cycle

07.06. Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne
Some features of the phonetics and phonology of Tahitian

14.06. kein Mampf

21.06. Constantijn Kaland, Uni Köln
Contour clustering as an exploratory tool for intonation analysis

28.06. Frank Seifart & Ludger Paschen, ZAS Berlin
The typology of the temporal fine structure of speech: Lengthening and pauses in spoken corpora from 51 languages

05.07. kein Mampf

12.07. Aleese Block, IPS
Cue weighting and enhancement in the production and perception of Norwegian vowel quantity

19.07. Tamara Rathcke, Universität Konstanz
The role of an individual listener in prosody perception

Wintersemester 2022/23

19.10.   Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University
Estimating phonetic entrainment based on intra-speaker variability

26.10.  

02.11.   kein Mampf; MA Treffen

09.11.   Paul O'Neill, University of Sheffield, UK
/s/ aspiration in Andalusian Spanish – an experimental study of 4 cities

15.11.   Außerordentlicher Mampf Termin, DIENSTAG 12 Uhr s.t., Raum 226 (IPS Bibliothek)
Khalil Iskarous, USC Los Angeles
Phonological Invariance through Phonetic Variation: The Dynamics of American English Intonation

16.11.   kein Mampf

23.11.   Justin Lo, UCL, UK
Language dependence, speaker individuality, and discriminatory performance of long-term formant distributions

30.11.  

07.12.   Robert Mailhammer, University of Western Sydney, Australien und Mark Harvey, Newcastle University, Australien
The flapped lateral in Iwaidja: complex segment or consonant cluster?

14.12.  

21.12.   kein Mampf; MA Treffen

11.01.   Adrian Simpson und Nato Sulaberidze, Universität Jena
Ejectives in Georgian, German, and English: articulation, acoustics and emergence

18.01.  

25.01.   Margaret Zellers, Universität Kiel
Temporal relationships between prominence features and hand gesturing at potential turn boundaries in German and Swedish

01.02.   Kathleen Jepson, IPS
The prosody of focus in a free word order language

08.02.   Barbara Plank, CIS, LMU !!!Cancelled!!!

Sommersemester 2022

27.04.   Lehrbesprechung WS22/23

04.05.   -----

11.05.   Simon Roessig, Universität zu Köln
Two dimensions of prominence relations: prosodic focus marking in habitual and loud speech

18.05.   -----

25.05.   Adamantios Gafos, Universität Potsdam
Entropic bases for artificial grammar learning and infant mispronounciation studies

01.06.   Peter Gilles, Université du Luxembourg
Ongoing sound changes in the Luxembourgish vowel system

08.06.   Claire Nance, Lancaster University
Palatalisation and velarisation in Scottish Gaelic sonorants, and the implications for sound change

15.06.   Margaret Zellers, Universität Kiel-- !!!Cancelled!!!
Temporal relationships between pitch, prominence features, and hand gesturing at potential turn boundaries in German and Swedish

22.06.   Ben Parrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What altered auditory feedback and computational models can show about speech motor control and planning

29.06.   Christopher Geissler, HHU Düsseldorf
Tone and articulatory timing: evidence from Tibetan

06.07.   Felicitas Kleber, IPS
Linguistic contact and speech rate effects in diachronic prosodic changes

13.07.   Roy Alderton, IPS
Salience and social meaning in production and perception of Standard Southern British English

20.07.   Frederick Kukla, Vanessa Reichel, IPS
MFCC-Plotter: A graphical tool to interactively analyse MFCCs

27.07.   Dina El Zarka, Universität Graz
Prosody and information structure in Egyptian Arabic: do we witness the emergence of a prosodic focus-background construction?

Wintersemester 2021/22

20.10.   Lehrbesprechung SS 2022

27.10.   Florian Schiel, IPS
BAS WebServices: Latest News ... (since 2019)

03.11.   Elisa Passoni, York University
Gendered L1 attrition and L2 acquisition of pitch range in Japanese-English sequential bilinguals

10.11.  

17.11.  

24.11.   Robin Karlin, Waisman Center, UW-Madison -- !!!TIME CHANGE MAMPF WILL BE AT 5pm (s.t.)!!!
Influences of phonological structure on temporal aspects of speech motor control

01.12.   Melissa Redford, University of Oregon -- !!!TIME CHANGE MAMPF WILL BE AT 5pm (s.t.)!!!
Rethinking the meaning of “anticipation” in long-distance coarticulation

08.12.   Aoju Chen, Utrecht University -- !!!TIME CHANGE MAMPF WILL BE AT 5pm (s.t.)!!!
Expressing sarcasm in a second language: The effect of prosodic training on perceived sarcasm and production

15.12.   no talk

22.12.   Anisia Popescu, Potsdam/ USC Los Angeles -- !!!TIME CHANGE MAMPF WILL BE AT 3pm (s.t.)!!!
Linking gestural representations to syllable count judgments: A cross-language test

12.01.   Anja Kuschmann, Strathclyde University Glasgow
Prosodic abilities in children with dysarthria due to cerebral palsy

19.01.   Aletheia Cui, IPS
Perceptual equivalence between co-varying cues in the register contrast of Southern Yi

26.01.   Georgia Zellou, UC Davis/Paris 7
The role of coarticulatory variation in speaker recognition

02.02.   Wei-Rong Chen, Haskins Labs -- !!!TIME CHANGE MAMPF WILL BE AT 3pm (s.t.)!!!
The structure of variability in speech production

09.02.   no talk

Sommersemester 2021

14.04.

21.04.  Charlie Wiltshire, IPS
Combining articulography and brain stimulation to investigate speech motor control in people who are typically fluent and people who stutter

28.04.

05.05.

12.05.   Jason Shaw, Yale University -- !!!TIME CHANGE MAMPF WILL BE AT 4pm (s.t.)!!!
Tones as gesture: space, time, perception, and change

19.05.   Mark Gibson, Universidad de Navarra
Toward a developmentally sensitive model of articulatory timing

26.05.   James Kirby & Jiayin Gao, University of Edinburgh
Perceptual equivalence between prevoicing and pitch: implications for sound change

02.06.   Stephan Kuberski, Universität Potsdam
The speed-curvature power law in speech

09.06.   Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara
Lexical prosody, typological variation, and an integrated dynamical model of prosodic structure

16.06.   Bronwen Evans, University College London
How flexible is “flexible” in speech processing? Evidence from behavioural and neurophysiological studies of second dialect acquisition

23.06.   Jan Rusz, Czech Technical University, Prague
Acoustic speech analysis in movement disorders

30.06.   Angelika Braun, Universität Trier
The speaking individual – Research in the forensic phonetics context

07.07.   Aude Noiray, Universität Potsdam -- TALK HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY 15.07. 13:45!!!
Towards an integrative-interactive approach to spoken language development

14.07.   Márton Sóskuthy, University of British Columbia
A cross-linguistic study of /u/-fronting -- TALK HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 17:00 s.t.!!!