Organizers:
- Daniela Müller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
- Keith Johnson (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Supported by:
Recent years have witnessed an increase in experimental investigations probing the link between the personality characteristics of the individual speaker-listener on the one hand and her speech perception and production strategies on the other hand, thereby adding important insights to the growing body of research demonstrating inter-individual differences in the construction of a phonetic persona. The ultimate purpose of this strand of investigations is to uncover the mechanisms behind the actuation of sound change beyond the acoustic properties of the speech signal and the physiological constraints on the vocal tract as well as to gain a deeper understanding of the spread of sound change from one individual to the next.
Inquiries can be sent to
daniela.mueller@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
Invited Speakers and Panellists
- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Ohio State University: “The interplay between listener characteristics and talker acoustics in regional accent perceptions.”
