A5046963037- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Language and cultural evolution
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Digital Communication and Language
- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Music and Audio Processing
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Marine animal studies overview
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2012-2024
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2024
Google (United States)
2022-2023
Goethe University Frankfurt
2019-2023
Max Planck Society
2008-2019
Kiel University
2017-2018
University of Wrocław
2017
Universität Innsbruck
2017
European University Viadrina
2017
Many drum communication systems around the world transmit information by emulating tonal and rhythmic patterns of spoken languages in sequences drumbeats. Their characteristics, particular, have not been systematically studied so far, although understanding them represents a rare occasion for providing an original insight into basic units speech rhythm as selected natural practices directly based on beats. Here, we analyse corpus Bora from northwest Amazon, which is nowadays endangered with...
The origins of human speech are obscure; it is still unclear what aspects unique to our species or shared with evolutionary cousins, in part due a lack common framework for comparison. We asked chimpanzee and vocal production acoustics have common. examined visible supra-laryngeal articulators four major vocalizations (hoos, grunts, barks, screams) their associated acoustic structures, using techniques from phonetic animal communication analysis. Data were collected wild adult chimpanzees,...
We present a first–ever comparison of phonetic properties across vocalizations by great apes. show that “hoot–like” calls (males of) all non–human ape genera – chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans overlap with those human back rounded vowels. Our work underlines the importance studying production calls. Observations from both comparative vocal morphology (non–human apes have short–and–narrow pharynges tongues contained in oral cavity) observations vocalizing animals indicate they likely...
This paper investigates phonetic and prosodic features of polite versus informal speech.Two different communicative tasks were performed by speakers two unrelated culturally distant languages, Korean German.We found that the speech can be characterized an increase filled pauses extralinguistic markers, a higher degree breathiness, as well lower measures average fundamental frequency, intensity, period perturbation amplitude perturbation.We also German shares similar tendencies.The parameters...
Acoustic signals that reliably indicate body size, which usually determines competitive ability, are of particular interest for understanding how animals assess rivals and choose mates. Whereas size tends to be negatively associated with formant dispersion in animal vocalizations, non-vocal have received little attention. Among the most emblematic sounds kingdom is chest beat gorillas, a signal thought important intra inter-sexual competition, yet it unclear whether indicates size. We...
This paper tests previous findings for polite speech of low pitch, intensity, higher number hesitation markers and filled pauses against those parameters in a different socio-cultural background. Two similar groups (19+13) participants, from Austria Germany, were recorded. The adopted experimental approach used 16 tasks aiming at acts situations that evoke either or informal speech. analyzed acoustic electroglottographic signals reveal main effects lower intensity HNR only the German group....
An underdescribed sound change in Germanic is the shift of initial kl and gl to tl dl respectively. Though not widely known, KL > TL has occurred more than once history Germanic. Relevant phonetic factors include coarticulation perceptual similarity. A third structural factor elsewhere a pre-existing gap. gives rise common clusters, though, under many phonological analyses, clusters are disfavored or marked. Typological comparison suggests that marked, but contrasts between disfavored.
Speaker fundamental frequency often stands as equivalent to the auditory measurement of average speaking (vocal) pitch.Previously found effects regarding higher estimations pitch vs. F0 for female voices have been fully replicated in an identification experiment involving 13 subjects.For value a given group experts measuring would be 2-3 semitones than acoustically measured speaker frequency.Self reports listeners' certainty their judgements seem not correspond at all with any variance and...