Publications

• ERC supported project publications
• Presentations related to the ERC
• Media dissemination related to the ERC
• Further awards relevant to the ERC
• Publications related to, but not funded by the ERC

ERC supported project publications

Edited volumes

• Harrington, J. & Stevens M. (2014) Special Edition on Sound Change. Journal of Laboratory Phonology. 5(1)

Journal papers

• Cronenberg, J., Gubian, M. & Harrington, J. (under review). A dynamic model of the change from pre- to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. Journal of Phonetics.
• Stevens, M., Harrington, J. & Schiel, F. (2019). Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1): 8, pp. 1-30.
• Harrington, J., Gubian, M., Stevens, M., & Schiel, F. (2019). Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, pp. 3327-3332.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., Reubold, U., Schiel, F., & Stevens, M. (2018). Linking cognitive and social aspects of sound change using agent-based modeling. Topics in Cognitive Science, 10(4), pp. 1-21.
• Carignan, C. (2018). Using ultrasound and nasalance to separate oral and nasal contribution to formant frequencies of nasalized vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(5), pp. 2588-2601.
• Carignan, C. (2018). Using naïve listener imitations of native speaker productions to investigate mechanisms of listener-based sound change. Laboratory Phonology, 9(1): 18, pp. 1-31.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., Siddins, J., & Reubold, U. (2015). The relationship between prosodic weakening and sound change: evidence from the German tense/lax vowel contrast. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 6(1), pp. 87-117.
• Bukmaier, V., Harrington, J., & Kleber, F. (2014). An analysis of post-vocalic /s-ʃ/ neutralization in Augsburg German: evidence for a gradient sound change. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, pp. 1-12.
• Harrington, J. & Stevens M. (2014). Cognitive processing as a bridge between phonetic and social models of sound change. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 5(1), pp. 1-8.
• Ruch, H. & Harrington, J. (2014). Synchronic and diachronic factors in the change from pre-aspiration to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. Journal of Phonetics, 45, pp. 12-25.
• Stevens, M. & Harrington, J. (2014). The individual and the actuation of sound change. Loquens, 1(1), e003.
• Stevens, M. & Reubold, U. (2014). Pre-aspiration, quantity, and sound change. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 5(4), pp. 455-488.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2013). The effect of prosodic weakening on the production and perception of trans-consonantal vowel coarticulation in German. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, pp. 551-561.

Book chapters

• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., Reubold, U., Schiel, F., & Stevens, M. (2019). The phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change. In W. Katz & P. Assmann (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics. Routledge: Oxford, pp. 401-426.
• Kleber, F. (2016). Lautwandel. In U. Domahs & B. Primus (eds.): Handbuch "Laut-Gebärde-Buchstabe". Berlin/Bosten: De Gruyter, pp. 125-143.
• Hoole, P. & Pouplier, M. (2015). Interarticulatory coordination - speech sounds. In M. Redford (ed.): The Handbook of Speech Production. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 133-157.
• Reubold, U., & Harrington, J. (2015). Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change: a longitudinal study of formant frequencies. In A. Gerstenberg & A. Voeste (eds.): Language Development: The Lifespan Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 9-37.
• Cunha, C. (2014). Neutralisierung lexikalischer Unterschiede im europäischen und brasilianischen Portugiesisch: Interaktion von Sprachproduktion und Perzeption. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte, pp. 33-50.
• Harrington, J. (2014). Variability and change in spoken language communication. In E. Glaser (ed.): Sprache(n) verstehen. University of Zürich, pp. 33-57.
• Kleber, F. (2014). Partielle Neutralisierung des Stimmhaftigkeitskontrastes in zwei Varietäten des Deutschen. In Th. Krefeld & E.Pustka (eds.): Thematisches Beiheft der Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 19-32.

International conference papers

• Winkelmann, R. and Harrington, J. (2019). EMU-SDMS: R centric semi-automatic speech database processing and analysis. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (eds.): Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1317-1321.
• Carignan, C., Hoole, P., Kunay, E., Harrington, J., Joseph, A., & Fram, J. (2019). The phonetic basis of phonological vowel nasality: Evidence from real-time MRI velum movement in German. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (eds.): Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 413-417.
• Gubian, M., Harrington, J., Stevens, M., Schiel, F., & Warren, P. (2019). Tracking the New Zealand English NEAR/SQUARE merger using functional principal components analysis. Interspeech, Graz, Austria.
• Bukmaier, V., Harrington, J., Reubold, U., & Kleber, F. (2014). Synchronic variation in the articulation and the acoustics of the Polish threeway place distinction in sibilants and its implications for diachronic change. In Proc. 15th Interspeech, Singapore.
• Cunha, C. (2014). The implementation of medial stop clusters in European Portuguese: an articulatory account and some perceptual data. Proceedings of IberSPEECH 2014, Las Palmas, Spain.
• Cunha, C., Harrington, J., & Reubold, U. (2014). Vowel coarticulation and undershoot in prosodically weakened positions. In S. Fuchs, M. Grice, A. Hermes, L. Lancia & D. Mücke (eds.) Proceedings of International Seminar on Speech Production, Cologne, Germany, pp. 78-81.
• Peters, S. & Kleber, F. (2014). Articulatory mechanisms underlying incremental compensatory vowel shortening in German. Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production, Cologne, Germany.
• Peters, S., & Kleber, F. (2014). The influence of accentuation and onset complexity on gestural timing within syllables. Proc. 7th Speech Prosody Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
• Siddins, J., Harrington, J., Reubold, U., & Kleber, F. (2014). Investigating the relationship between accentuation, vowel tensity and compensatory shortening. Proceedings of the 7th Speech Prosody Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
• Winkelmann, R., & Raess, G. (2014). Introducing a web application for labeling visualizing speech and correcting derived speech signals. 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Siddins, J., Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2013). The influence of accentuation and polysyllabicity on compensatory shortening in German. Proc. 14th Interspeech Conference, Lyon, France.
• Cunha, C., Harrington, J., & Hoole, P. (2013). A physiological analysis of the tense/lax vowel contrast in two varieties of German. Proceedings Interspeech, Lyon, France, pp. 325-329.

Published/accepted abstracts

• Harrington, J. & Reubold, U. (2014). The influence of age on estimating sound change acoustically from longitudinal data. Special session: Panel studies: Challenges, food for thought and ways forward. Methods in Dialectology XV, Groningen, Netherlands.
• Kleber, F., & Peters, S. (2014). Children's imitation of coarticulatory patterns in different prosodic contexts. Proc. 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Tokyo, Japan.
• Peters, S. & Kleber, F. (2014). Organization of simplex and complex onsets in 5 and 6-year old children’s production. Proc. 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Tokyo, Japan.
• Reubold, U. & Harrington, J. (2014). Quantifying age-related and phonetic change in a longitudinal study. 3rd Workshop on Sound change, San Francisco, USA.
• Stevens, M. & Harrington, J. (2014). Testing the listener-driven model of dissimilation. 3rd Workshop on Sound changea, San Francisco, USA.
• Peters, S. & Kleber, F. (2013). Compensatory vowel shortening before complex coda clusters in the production and perception of German monosyllables. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 4202.
• Stevens, M. (2013). On emergent aspiration and its role in signaling consonant length in Italian. Laboratory Phonology 13a, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Kleber, F., Harrington, J., Reubold, U., & Siddins, S. (2012). Compensation for coarticulation in lexically unstressed syllables. Laboratory Phonology, 13, Stuttgart, Germany.

Presentations related to the ERC project

• J. Harrington, organiser, Seminar on Empirical Approaches at the boundary between phonetics and phonology, April 29 – May 03, 2013, Venice International University.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, The effect of context and prosodic variation on sound change. Workshop on Historical and Empirical Evolutionary Linguistics, Tübingen, Feburary 2014. http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/wheel/program.html
• J. Harrington, invited talk, The relationship between coarticulation, prosody, and sound change: recent models and results. Linguistic Summer School, Dačice, Czech Republic, August, 2013.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, Techniques in phonetics for quantifying historical sound change. Linguistic Summer School, Dačice, Czech Republic, August, 2013.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, The importance of databases and coarticulation for understanding sound change. Journée en l'honneur d'Alain Marchal, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence June, 2013.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, Modern Methods of Time-Frequency Analysis II, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, University of Vienna, Dec. 2012.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, Sound change and its relationship to variation in production and categorization in perception, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, France, Oct. 2012.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, Measuring sound change. British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. Sept. 2012.
• J. Harrington, invited talk, The phonetic bases of variability and change in spoken language communication. Zürcher Kompetenzzentrum Linguistik, Universität Zürich und Technische Hochschule Zürich. Sept. 2012.
• M. Pouplier & P. Hoole, Comparing principal component analysis of ultrasound images with contour analyses in a study of tongue body control during German coronals, Ultrafest VI, 6-8 Nov, 2013, University of Edinburgh, Oral presentation.
• F. Kleber, The emergence of trading relations in a sound change in progress: Evidence from East Franconian, 26.07.12., Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 13, Stuttgart, Oral presentation.
• F. Kleber, J. Harrington, U. Reubold, J. Siddins (2013) Compensation for coarticulation in lexically unstressed syllables. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology Conference, July 27-29, 2013, Stuttgart, Germany.
• F. Kleber, invited talk, Age-dependent differences in the perception and production of phonological contrasts in varieties of German, 13.12.12, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Acadamy of Sciences, Budapest.
• F. Kleber, invited talk, Zur Rolle der Prosodie bei Kompensation für Koartikulation bei Vorschulkindern und Erwachsenen, 27.06.2013, Instituts für Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, University of Kiel.
• F. Kleber, Lautwandelprozesse in Varietäten des Deutschen, 22.11.13, Soziophonetik-Workshop, 40. Österreichische Linguisten Tagung, Salzburg, Oral presentation.
• F. Kleber, invited talk, Age-dependent differences in the perception and production of the phonemic vowel length contrast in Central Bavarian and Upper Saxon, 11.12.13, Institut für Schallforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.
• S. Peters, V. Bukmaier, J. Harrington, F. Kleber, F. & U. Reubold (2013).Compensation for coarticulation in unaccented vs. accented words in preschool children. Poster presented at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research X, Utrecht, January, 2013.
• J. Siddins, J. Harrington, U. Reubold, F. Kleber (2013). The influence of accentuation and polysyllabicity on compensatory shortening in German. Poster presented at Interspeech, Lyon, France, August, 2013.
• J. Siddins, invited talk, Coarticulation and Sound Change, 30.10.2013, Centre of Advanced Studies der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
• M. Stevens, Individual differences in the production and perception of consonant length: implications for sound change, Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, April 17-18, 2013, Chicago, USA. Oral presentation.
• M. Stevens On emergent aspiration and its role in signaling consonant length in Italian. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology Conference, July 27-29, 2013, Stuttgart, Germany.

Media dissemination relevant to the ERC project

• J. Harrington (2012). Interview with M. Burkhart for Sound check. International Newsletter of the LMU.
• J. Harrington (2012). BBC Radio 4, U.K. Interview with M. Rosen for The Queen's Speech. Word of Mouth.

Further awards relevant to the ERC project

• Professor Mary Beckman nominated by J. Harrington and awarded the Humboldt-Stiftung Anneliese-Maier-Research-Award to work with the ERC project on sound change and its relationship to language acquisition. 250.000 Euro (2014-2019).
• J. Harrington, Senior Researcher in Residence, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (2013-2014). For collaboration between the doctoral students of the ERC project and the CAS junior scientists, Professor J. Cole (Illinois), Dr J. Kirby (Edinburgh), Professor B. Munson (Illinois) each for 3 month periods.
• Dr. Esther de Leeuw, Humboldt Fellow at the IPS Munich, project title: A longitudinal investigation into phonetic and phonological interaction in L1 German – L2 Swedish – L3 English speech of Queen Silvia. 1. April – 30. September 2014; 1. Juli – 30. September 2015.
• Dr. Daniela Müller, LMU Munich Research Fellowship at the IPS Munich, Liquid dynamics and change. 1.8.12 - 1.8.14.
• Dr. Eva Reinisch, Humboldt Fellow at the IPS Munich 1.12.12 - 1.12.14

Publications related to, but not funded by the ERC

Journal papers

• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2013). The effect of prosodic weakening on the production and perception of trans-consonantal vowel coarticulation in German. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, pp. 551-561.
• Kleber, F. Harrington, J., & Reubold, U. (2012). The relationship between the perception and production of coarticulation during a sound change in progress. Language and Speech, 55(3), pp. 383-405.
• Harrington, J., Hoole, Ph., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2011). The physiological, acoustic, and perceptual basis of high back vowel fronting: evidence from German tense and lax vowels. Journal of Phonetics, 39, pp. 121-131.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2011). The contributions of the lips and the tongue to the diachronic fronting of high back vowels in Standard Southern British English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 41, pp. 137-156.
• Reubold, U., Harrington, J., & Kleber, F. (2010). Vocal aging effects on F0 and the first formant: a longitudinal analysis in adult speakers. Speech Communication, 52, pp. 638-651.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2008). Compensation for coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in Standard Southern British: an acoustic and perceptual study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 2825-2835.

Book chapters

• Müller, D. (2013). Liquid dissimilation with a special regard to Latin. In F. Sánchez Miret, D. Recasens (eds.): Studies in phonetics, phonology and sound change in Romance. München: LINCOM, pp. 95-109.
• Harrington, J. (2012). The relationship between synchronic variation and diachronic change. In A. C. Cohn, C. Fougeron, M. Huffman (eds.): Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 321-332.
• Harrington, J. (2012). The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting. In M.-J. Solé & D. Recasens (eds.): The Initiation of Sound Change. Perception, Production, and Social factors . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 103-122.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2012). The production and perception of coarticulation in two types of sound changes in progress. In S. Fuchs, M. Weihrich, D. Pape, & P. Perrier (eds.): Speech Planning and Dynamics. Frankfurt: P. Lang, pp. 39-62.

International conference papers

• Kleber, F. Harrington, J., Reubold, U., & Siddins, J. (2012). Compensation for coarticulation in prosodically weak words. Proc. 6th Speech Prosody Conference, Shanghai, China, pp. 306-309.
• Müller, V., Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2011). Age-dependent differences in the neutralization of the intervocalic voicing contrast: evidence from an apparent-time study on East Franconian. Proc. 12th Interspeech Conference, Florence, Italy.
• Harrington, J., Kleber, F., & Reubold, U. (2007). /u/-fronting in RP: a link between sound change and diminished perceptual compensation for coarticulation? Proc. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany.