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ERC supported project publications

Edited volumes

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

Journal papers

  • 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, 1-12.
  • Harrington, J., Kleber, F., Siddins, J., and Reubold, U. (in press). The relationship between prosodic weakening and sound change: evidence from the German tense/lax vowel contrast. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, in press.
  • Harrington, J., Kleber, F., and 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, 551–561. (DOI: 10.1121/1.4808328)
  • Harrington, J. & Stevens M. (2014). Cognitive processing as a bridge between phonetic and social models of sound change. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 5(1), 1–8.
  • Ruch, H. and Harrington, J. (2014). Synchronic and diachronic factors in the change from pre-aspiration to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. Journal of Phonetics, 45, 12-25.
  • Stevens, M. & Harrington, J. (2014). The individual and the actuation of sound change. Loquens, 1(1), e003. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2014.003
  • Stevens, M. and Reubold, U. (2014). Pre-aspiration, quantity, and sound change. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 5(4). 455-488.

Book chapters

  • Cunha, C. (2014). Neutralisierung lexikalischer Unterschiede im europäischen und brasilianischen Portugiesisch: Interaktion von Sprachproduktion und Perzeption. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte. 33-50.
  • Harrington, J. (2014). Variability and change in spoken language communication. In E. Glaser (Ed.), Sprache(n) verstehen. University of Zürich.
  • Hoole, P. and Pouplier, M. (2015). Interarticulatory coordination - speech sounds. Chap. 7 of The Handbook of Speech Production, M. Redford (ed.), pp. 133-157. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Kleber, F. (in press). Lautwandel. In U. Domahs & B. Primus (Eds.) Handbuch "Laut-Gebärde-Buchstabe". Berlin/Bosten: De Gruyter.
  • Kleber, F. (2014). Partielle Neutralisierung des Stimmhaftigkeitskontrastes in zwei Varietäten des Deutschen. In Th. Krefeld & E.Pustka (Ed.), Thematisches Beiheft der Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
  • 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. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam. (p. 9-37).

International conference papers

  • Bukmaier, V., Harrington, J., Reubold, U., and 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 (10 pages).
  • Cunha, C., Harrington, J., and Hoole, P. (2013). A physiological analysis of the tense/lax vowel contrast in two varieties of German. Proceedings Interspeech, Lyon. pp. 325-329.
  • Cunha, C., Harrington, J., and 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. p. 78-81.
  • Peters, S. and 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.
  • 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.
  • Winkelmann, R., and Raess, G. (2014). Introducing a web application for labeling visualizing speech and correcting derived speech signals. 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (4 pages).

Published/accepted abstracts

  • Harrington, J. and 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, August, 2014.
  • Kleber, F., Harrington, J., Reubold, U., and Siddins, S. (2012). Compensation for coarticulation in lexically unstressed syllables. Laboratory Phonology, 13, Stuttgart, July, 2012.
  • Kleber, F., and 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. (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.
  • Peters, S. & Kleber, F. (2014). Articulatory mechanisms underlying incremental compensatory vowel shortening in German. 10th International Speech Production Seminar, Cologne, Germany (4 pages)
  • Peters, S. and 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, May 28-31, 2014.
  • Stevens, M. (2013). On emergent aspiration and its role in signaling consonant length in Italian. Laboratory Phonology 13a, Stuttgart, July, 2012.
  • Stevens, M. & Harrington, J. (2014). Testing the listener-driven model of dissimilation. 3rd Workshop on Sound changea, San Francisco. May 28-31, 2014.

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