Submenu institute
Submenu teaching
Submenu research
Submenu publications
Submenu links





Englische Version Deutsche Version
 

Speech Communication
From Phonetic Signals to Communicative Functions


1. Theory and Data in Communicative Phonetic Science

PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (1998). The development of sound systems in human language. In J. Hurford, C. Knight, and M. G. Studdert-Kennedy (eds.), Approaches to the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 265-278.
PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (1998). The future of phonetics. Invited lecture on the Occasion of Professor Jørgen Rischel’s Retirement from his Chair at Copenhagen University, 6th February 1998.
PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (2000). The future of phonetics. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 30, 1-24.
PPT PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Beyond Lab Phonology - The Phonetics of Speech Communication. PPT Presentation at the Conference on Methods in Phonology, Berkeley, 20 - 23 May 2004.
(2006). Beyond Laboratory Phonology - The Phonetics of Speech Communication. Manuscript.


Klaus J. Kohler (2007). Beyond Laboratory Phonology: The Phonetics of Speech Communication. In: Solé, Maria Josep, Beddor, Patrice Speeter, and Ohala, Manjari (eds): Experimental Approaches to Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 41-53.
PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2006). Paradigms of experimental prosodic analysis: from measurement to function. In: Sudhoff, Stefan, Denisa Lenertová, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schließer (eds): Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter (= Language, Context, and Cognition, 3), 123-152.
PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (2007). Two Anniveraries. 75 Years of International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences and 50 Years of Phonetia . Some epistemological reflexions on the theory and methodology of Phonetic Science. Phonetica 64, 73-79.
PDF ZIP Klaus J. Kohler (2007). Data acquisition and modelling in speech communication. Paper at Satellite Symposium ParaLing07, 16th ICPhS, Saarbrücken, 3 August 2007. 

PPT Klaus J. Kohler (2007-8). Empirismus in der Phonetik ("Empiricism in Phonetics"). Präsentation in K. J. Kohler, Kolloquium: Phonetik in der sprachlichen Kommunikation - Vom Schall zur Bedeutung ("Phonetics in Speech Communication - From Sound to Sense"), IPDS, Kiel, Winter Semester 2007-2008.
ZIP
Klaus J. Kohler (2008). From Sound to Sense. Theory and methodology of phonetics as a communication science. Talk in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong, 25 April, 2008.
ZIP
Klaus J. Kohler (2008). Phonetische Abschwächung und Verstärkung im Kontext - Wortaussprache und Worterkennung in der lautsprachlichen Kommunikation.
Presentation in the MA-Colloquium at IPDS, Kiel, 4 July 2008.
PPT
Klaus J. Kohler (2008). How to model prosody? The case of KIM - The Kiel Intonation Model.
Paper given at Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, 10 October 2008.
PPT
Klaus J. Kohler (2009). The transmission of meaning through prosodic phrasing - The case of Germanic languages versus French. Workshop on Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic, Research Centre on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg. Invited Paper, 23 January 2009.

PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2010). The transmission of meaning by prosodic phrasing - A comparison of French with English and German, using no Ls and Hs. Phonetica 67, 100-124.
PPT
Klaus J. Kohler (2011). Speech sounds, speech reduction, speech rhythm in the transmission of meaning - Foundations of Communicative Phonetic Science.
Lecture at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academia Sinica (ILAS), Taipei, 15 August 2011.
PPT PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2011). On the interdependence of sounds and prosodies in communicative functions. Plenary Lecture, ICPhS Hong Kong, 17 August 2011.

PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2011). Communicative functions integrate segments in prosodies and prosodies in segments. Phonetica 68, 26-56. (Pre-publication version)

PDF Klaus J. Kohler & Oliver Niebuhr (2011). On the role of articulatory prosodies in German message decoding. Phonetica 68, 57-87. (Pre-publication version)

PDF Oliver Niebuhr & Klaus J. Kohler (2011). Perception of phonetic detail in the identification of highly reduced words. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 319-329. (Pre-publication version)

2. Expression and Appeal in the Communication between Speakers and Listeners

(a) Published Articles

PDF Ernst Dombrowski, Oliver Niebuhr (2005). Acoustic patterns and communicative functions of phrase-final f0 rises in German: activating and restricting contours. Phonetica 62, 176-195.

Ernst Dombrowski, Oliver Niebuhr (2005). Phrase-final rises in German: some examples.
PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Pragmatic and attitudinal meanings of pitch patterns in German syntactically marked questions. In: G. Fant, H. Fujisaki, J. Cao, Y. Xu: From traditional phonology to modern speech processing. Festschrift for Professor Wu Zongji's 95th Birthday. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 205-214.
PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Timing and communicative functions of pitch contours. Phonetica 62, 88-105.
PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (2009). Patterns of prosody in the expression of the speaker and the appeal to the listener. In Fant, G., Fujisaki, H. & Shen, J. (eds.) Frontiers in Phonetics and Speech Science, pp. 287-302. Beijing: The Commercial Press.

(b) Congress Papers: Proceedings (PDF) and Presentations (PPT/ZIP oder )


ZIP Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Pragmatic and attitudinal meanings of pitch patterns in German syntactically marked questions. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages: Emphasis on Tone Languages (TAL), Beijing. ppt-Präsentation zum Aufsatz Klaus J. Kohler (2004).
PDF ZIP Klaus J. Kohler (2006). What is emphasis and how is it coded? In: Proc. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, 748-751.
PDF PPT Klaus J. Kohler (2008). Prosody in Speech Interaction - Expression of the Speaker and Appeal to the Listener. 8th Phonetic Conference of China, International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers, Beijing, 18 April 2008.
PDF1 PDF2 Klaus J. Kohler and Oliver Niebuhr (2007). The Phonetics of Emphasis. In: Proc. 16th ICPhS, Saarbrücken, 2145-2148.

(c) Presentations

ZIP
Klaus J. Kohler (2007). Vom Schall zur Bedeutung in der lautsprachlichen Kommunikation. Vortrag im Linguistenkreis der Philosophischen Fakultät der CAU, Kiel, 7 November 2007.
ZIP
Klaus J. Kohler (2007-8). Ausdruck und Appell in der lautsprachlichen Kommunikation ("Expression and Appeal in Speech Communication"). Präsentation in K. J. Kohler, Kolloquium: Phonetik in der sprachlichen Kommunikation - Vom Schall zur Bedeutung ("Phonetics in Speech Communication - From Sound to Sense") IPDS, Kiel, Winter Semester 2007-2008.
ZIP
Klaus J. Kohler (2008). Argumentation Structure, Expression of the Speaker, and Appeal to the Listener in Speech Communication. Paper given to the Acquisition Group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, 18 June 2008.

3. Rhythm in Language and Speech: From Sound to Communicative Functions

PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (1991). Isochrony, units of rhythmic organization and speech rate. Proceedings of 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1991, Aix-en-Provence, vol. 257-261.
PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (2007). Review of Andreas Dufter (2003). Typen sprachrhythmischer Konturbildung. Tübingen. Max Niemeyer Verlag. Studies in Language 31, 873-884.

PPT Klaus J. Kohler (2007-8). Prominenz und Rhythmus ("Prominence and rhythm"). Präsentation in K. J. Kohler, Kolloquium: Phonetik in der sprachlichen Kommunikation - Vom Schall zur Bedeutung ("Phonetics in Speech Communication - From Sound to Sense"), IPDS, Kiel, Winter Semester 2007-2008.

ZIP Klaus J. Kohler (2008). Analyzing speech rhythm in different languages - A new research paradigm. Paper in AG12 "Methodological Aspects of Intonation Research". 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Bamberg, 27 February 2008. 

ZIP Klaus J. Kohler (2008). Prominence and rhythm revisited perceptually. Paper at Workshop on "Empirical Approaches to Rhythm". UCL, London, 28. March 2008. 
PDF PPT Klaus J. Kohler (2008). The perception of prominence patterns. Phonetica 65, 257-269 (2008).
PDF PPT Klaus J. Kohler (2009). Rhythm in speech and language - A new research paradigm. Phonetica 66, 20-45 (2009).
PDF
Klaus J. Kohler (2009). Whither Speech Rhythm Research?. Editorial to Thematic Issue "Rhythm in Speech and Language - From Theory to Data". Phonetica 66,5-14 (2009).

4. Form and Function of Laughing and Smiling

PDF ZIP Klaus J. Kohler (2007). 'Speech-smile', 'speech-laugh', 'laughter' and their sequencing in dialogic interaction. Paper at Satellite Symposium 'The Phonetics of Laughter', 16th ICPhS, Saarbrücken,
5 August 2007. 
PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2008). 'Speech-smile', 'speech-laugh', 'laughter' and their sequencing in dialogic interaction. Phonetica 65, 1-18.

5. "From Sound to Writing and vice versa"

(a) Presentations and Papers

PPT PDF Klaus J. Kohler (2008). Prosodie in der Sprache und ihre Bedeutung in der vorschulischen Förderung. Vortrag an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg, 4 November 2008.

(b) Symposium at Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, 5 June 2009

PDF
Programme of a Symposium organised by the Department of Romance Philology
and the Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing at the Unversity of Kiel
From Sound to Writing and vice versa
Principles and Problems of Writing and Reading in Germanic and Romance Languages,
and in their Contact Languages. 5 June 2009. 

PPT Klaus J. Kohler (2009) "Schreibe, wie du sprichst" - Sinn und Unsinn in der Vermittlung der Alphabetschrift. Symposiumsvortrag. 5 June 2009.
PDF
Kurt Braunmüller (2009) Je komplizierter die Aussprache, desto unspezifischer die Schreibung - am Beispiel der skandinavischen Sprachen. Symposiumsvortrag. 5 June 2009.

6. Sound Patterns of German Spontaneous Speech

= Audiobeispiele
nach oben
 

Last changes: August 2011, K. J. Kohler