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Sound Patterns of German Spontaneous Speech1. Goals, Overview of Results, and the Prosody Discussion GroupBy integrating symbol and signal-oriented analyses of a large database of spontaneous dialogues, the project attempts to access the phonetics of Standard German at the phrase level, i.e. above lexical word citation forms, and to provide a comparative description of spontaneous and scripted speech (sentences and texts). The phenomena that are investgated are
The research on Articulatory Reduction was begun in the 1970s in a German Research Council (DFG) project "Phonetic Properties of Speaking Styles" (AIPUK 8 (1977)), the research on Prosody started in the 1990s in the DFG Special Study Group "Intonation Research" (AIPUK 25 (1991)). Both fields were extended to large databases of scripted and spontaneous speech and their segmental and prosodic labelling in the projects PHONDAT and VERBMOBIL (CD-ROMs, INFO_ReadSpeech (2007) and AIPUK 29 (1995), AIPUK 32(1997)). These databases then became the foundations for the DFG project "Sound Patterns of German Spontaneous Speech - Symbolic Structures and Phonetic Processes" (Ko331/22; 1997-2003), which broadened the analysis of Articulatory Reduction in a comparison of scripted and spontaneous speech (AIPUK 35 (2001)) and of Prosody (AIPUK 35a (2005)).
A
follow-up
DFG project "Prosodic Phrasing in
German Spontaneous Speech - Categories, Symbolization, Empirical
Validation" (Ko331/23; 2004-2006) continued the research into prosody (AIPUK
35a(2005)). Starting
in the winter semester of 2001/2 and continuing till the
sommer semester of 2006, a Prosody Discussion Group of staff
members and
students at IPDS Kiel met weekly for a Prosody
Colloquium to discuss ongoing prosody research, originally within
the DFG projects on German
spontaneous speech, especially to supervise prosodic labelling of
spontaneous corpora and to solve problematic
issues. Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Bistra Andreeva, Ernst Dombrowski,
Felicitas Kleber, Klaus Kohler, Nadeshda Krutisch, Kristin Landgraf, Oliver
Niebuhr, Benno Peters, Tamara Khromovskikh, and Thomas Wesener
took part. The lively interchanges among this group sharpened or
falsified old ideas and generated new ones. Soon the discussions
broadened into general theoretical and methodological questions of
prosody research. Under the supervision of K. J. Kohler, two PhD theses and five MA
dissertations were
written on prosodic subjects, for which the
Prosody Group provided the discussion forum in the Prosody Colloquium.
The wider perspective led to further related
prosodic topics in lectures and papers that
were presented at the Prosody Colloquium and elsewhere. 2. Articulatory Reduction(a) Published Articles and HTML Documents
(b) Conference Presentations (PPT/ZIP)
(c)
AIPUK 29 (1995).
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| Klaus J. Kohler. Foreword, vi-vii. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler,
Matthias Pätzold and Adrian Simpson. From the acoustic data collection to a labelled speech data bank of spoken Standard German, 1-29. |
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| IPDS, Kiel. xassp User's Manual (Advanced Speech Signal Processor under the X Window System), 31-115. |
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| Matthias Pätzold. KielDat Data bank utilities for the Kiel Corpus, 117-126. | ||
| Jonathan
Rodgers, Pétur Helgason and Klaus J. Kohler. Segment deletion in the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech ,, 127-176. |
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| Jonathan Rodgers. Vowel devoicing/deletion in English and German, 177-195. | ||
| Jonathan Rodgers. A comparison of vowel devoicing/deletion phenomena in English laboratory speech and German spontaneous speech, 197-214. | ||
| Matthias Pätzold and Adrian Simpson. Acoustic analysis of German vowels in the Kiel Corpus of Read Speech , 115-247. |
| Header, Contents, and Foreword. i-x. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler. The investigation of connected speech processes. Theory, method, hypotheses and empirical data, 1-32. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler.
Variability of opening and closing gestures in speech communication,
33-96. |
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| Klaus J. Kohler
and Jonathan Rodgers.
Schwa deletion in German read and spontaneous speech, 97-123. Previous Report to the German Research Council, Manuscript (2000): PDF |
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| Thomas Wesener. Aspects of 'cliticization' and style in German function words, 125-153. | ||
| Thomas Wesener (2001). Some aspects of position and style in German function words. Manuscript, discussion paper preceding AIPUK 35, 125-153. |
| 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. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler (1986). Computer synthesis of intonation. Proc. 12th Intern. Congr. Acoustics, Toronto, A6-6 . | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler (1987). Categorical pitch perception. Proc. 11th ICPhS, Tallinn, vol. 5, 331-333 . | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler (1987). The linguistic functions of F0 peaks. Proc. 11th ICPhS, Tallinn, vol. 3, 149-152 . | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler (1988). An intonation model for a German Text-to-speech system. Proc. Speech '88, 7th FASE Symposium, Edinburgh,1241-1249 . | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler
(1990). Macro and micro F0 in the synthesis of intonation. In Kingston,
J. & Beckman, M.E. (eds) Papers in Laboratory Phonology I. Cambridge University Press, 115-138. |
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| Klaus J. Kohler (1995). ToBIG and PROLAB - Two prosodic transcription systems for German compared. Report at Workshop on Prosodic Labelling, ICPhS Stockholm, 13 August 1995. Manuscript. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Timing and communicative functions of pitch contours. Phonetica 62, 88-105. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Benno Peters (1999). Prototypische Intonationsmuster in deutscher Lese- und Spontansprache ("Prototypical Intonation Patterns in German Read and Spontaneous Speech"). AIPUK 34, 1-171. | ||
| Benno Peters (2000). Individuelle und geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in der prosodischen Gestaltung deutscher Lese- und Spontansprache ("Individual and gender-specific differences in the prosodic shaping of German read and spontaneous speech"). In: H. D. Schlosser (ed.): Sprache und Kultur (Forum Angewandte Linguistik. Band 38). Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, 153-162. | ||
| HTML | Benno Peters (2001).'Video Task' oder 'Daily Soap Szenario' - Ein neues Verfahren zur kontrollierten Elizitation von Spontansprache (" 'VideoTask' or Daily Soap Scenario' - A new method for the controlled elicitation of spontaneous speech"). Manuscript. | |
| ZIP | Benno Peters, Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Trainingsmaterialien zur prosodischen Etikettierung mit dem Kieler Intonationsmodell KIM ("Training Material for Prosodic Labelling with the Kiel Intonation Model KIM "). Manuscript. (Training material in the ZIP file) |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2003). Neglected categories in the modelling of prosody - Pitch timing and non-pitch accents. Proc. 15th ICPhS, Barcelona, 2925-2928. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Prosody Revisited: FUNCTION, TIME, and the LISTENER in Intonational Phonology. In: B. Bel, I. Marlien (eds.): Proc. International Conference: Speech Prosody 2004, Nara/Japan, 171-174. | |
| 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 presentation of the paper Klaus J. Kohler (2004). |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2006). What is emphasis and how is it coded? In: Proc. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, 748-751. |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2007). Heterogeneous exponents of homogeneous prososodic categories - The case of dialectal variability of pitch contour synchronization with articulation. Paper in AG7 "Standard Prosody or Prosody of Lingusitic Standards? Prosodic Variation and Grammar Writing". 29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). Siegen, 28 February, 2007. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler, Benno Peters, and Thomas Wesener (2001). Interruption glottalization in German spontaneous speech. In: Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, University of Edinburgh, August 29-31, 2001. |
| PDF1 | PDF2 | Klaus J. Kohler and Oliver Niebuhr (2007). The Phonetics of Emphasis. In: Proc. 16th ICPhS, Saarbrücken, 2145-2148. |
| Oliver Niebuhr (2003). Perceptual study of timing variables in F0 peaks. Proc. 15th ICPhS, Barcelona, 1225-1228. | ||||
| Oliver Niebuhr and Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Perception and cognitive processing of tonal alignment in German. In: B. Bel, I. Marlien (eds.): Proc. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages: Emphasis on Tone Languages (TAL), Beijing, 155-158. |
| Benno Peters. The Database The Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech, 1-6. | ||
| Benno Peters, Klaus J. Kohler, Thomas Wesener. Melodische Satzakzentmuster in prosodischen Phrasen deutscher Spontansprache - Statistische Verteilung und sprachliche Funktion. (“Pitch accent patterns in prosodic phrases of German spontaneous speech – Statistical distribution and linguistic function”), 7-54. | ||
| Oliver Niebuhr. Sequenzen phonologischer Intonationsgipfel – Theoretische Möglichkeiten und empirische Realisierung im segmentellen Kontext (“Sequences of phonological pitch peak contours – Theoretical possibilities and empirical realization in segmental context”), 55-95. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler. Form and Function of Non-Pitch Accents, 97-123. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler. Pragmatic and Attitudinal Meanings of Pitch Patterns in German Syntactically Marked Questions, 125-142. | ||
| Benno Peters, Klaus J. Kohler, Thomas Wesener. Phonetische Merkmale prosodischer Phrasierung in deutscher Spontansprache (“Phonetic features of prosodic phrasing in German spontaneous speech”), 143-184. | ||
| Klaus J. Kohler, Benno Peters, Thomas Wesener. Phonetic Exponents of Disfluency in German Spontaneous Speech, 185-201. | ||
| Benno Peters. Weiterführende Untersuchungen zu prosodischen Grenzen in deutscher Spontansprache (“Further investigations of prosodic boundaries in German spontaneous speech”), 203-345. |
| Oliver
Niebuhr (2006). Perzeption und kognitive Verarbeitung der Sprechmelodie
. Theoretische Gundlagen und empirische
Untersuchungen. ("Perception and cognitive processing of speech melody. Theoretical foundations and empirical inevstigations.") PhD Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Kiel. |
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| ZIP | Oliver
Niebuhr (2006). Von der Physiologie zur kommunikativen Funktion der
Sprechstimme. ("From physiology to communicative function of the speaking voice.") Disputation 27 November 2006, Faculty of Arts, University of Kiel. |
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| HTML | Benno
Peters (2006). Form und Funktion prosodischer Grenzen im Gespräch.
Dissertation Phil. Fak., Universität Kiel. |
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| ZIP | Benno Peters (2006). Ist Sprachwahrnehmung kategorial?. ("Is speech perception categorical?") Disputation 23 June 2006, Faculty of Arts, University of Kiel. | |
| Klaus J. Kohler
(2006). Das Paradigma der kategorialen Wahrnehmung.
Wissenschaftstheoretische Überlegungen. ("The paradigm of categorical perception. Reflexions on scientific theory.") Points for discussion in the Prosody Group on 4 July 2006 following Benno Peters' Disputation on the subject "Is speech perception categorical?" |
| ZIP | Gilbert Ambrazaitis (2004). Experimentelle Untersuchungen zu phonetischen und semantischen Aspekten phrasenfinaler Melodiemuster im Deutschen ("Phonetic and semantic aspects of phrase-final pitch patterns in German - an experimental investigation"). MA Dissertation IPDS Kiel. | |
| ZIP | Felicitas Kleber (2005). Experimentalphonetische Untersuchungen zu Form und Funktion fallender Intonationskonturen im Englischen ("Form and function of falling intonation contours in English - an experimental phonetic study"). MA Dissertation IPDS Kiel. | |
| ZIP | Tamara Kromovskikh (2003). Perzeptorische Untersuchungen zur Intonation der Frage im Russischen ("A Perceptual Study of Question Intonation in Russian"). MA Dissertation IPDS Kiel. | |
| ZIP | Kristin Landgraf (2003). Steigende Intonationskonturen im Deutschen - Experimentalphonetische Untersuchungen zur auditiven Kategorisierung ("Rising Intonation Contours in German - An Experimental Phonetic Study of Auditory Categorization"). MA Dissertation IPDS Kiel. | |
| HTML | Oliver Niebuhr (2003). Perzeptorische Untersuchungen zu Zeitvariablen in Grundfrequenzgipfeln ("Perceptual Investigations of Timing Variables in Pitch Peak Contours"). MA Dissertation IPDS Kiel. | |
| Antje Stiel (2008). Prosodische Muster in der Sprache von Parkinsonpatienten im Vergleich mit Sprechgesunden - Eine auditive und experimentelle Untersuchung im Deutschen. MA Dissertation IPDS Kiel. |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2003). Domains of temporal control in speech and language - From utterance to segment. Proc. 15th ICPhS, Barcelona, 7-10. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2003). Modelling stylistic variation of speech - Basic research and speech technology application. Proc. 15th ICPhS, Barcelona, 223-226. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2003). La reprise de la prosodie - "La Fonction", "le Temps" et "l'Auditeur" dans la phonologie de l'intonation. Conférence à l'ILPGA, Paris III, 15 octobre 2003. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2003). Prosody Revisited - "Function", "Time" and the "Listener" in intonational phonology. Lecture at the Copenhagen Linguistics Department, 31 October 2003. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Tonales Muster, syntaktische Form und kommunikativer Kontext. Diskussion in der Prosodiegruppe, IPDS Kiel, Januar 2004. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Prosodie neu betrachtet - "Funktion", "Zeit" und der "Hörer" in der Intonationsphonologie. Präsentation im IPDS-Kolloquium, 30. April 2004. | |
| PPT | 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. |
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| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Prosody Revisited - "Function", "Time" and the "Listener" in intonational phonology. Lecture at Haskins Labs, 15 June 2004. | |
| PDF1 | PDF2 | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Categorical speech perception revisited. Poster at the Conference "From Sound to Sense: 50+ years of discoveries in speech communication", MIT Cambridge, 11 - 13 June 2004. Poster=PDF1, Paper=PDF2. |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Wieviele späte Gipfel braucht die Modellierung der Prosodie im Deutschen? - Methodische und theoretische Reflexionen zur prosodischen Phonologie. Diskussion in der Prosodiegruppe, IPDS Kiel, Juli 2004. | |
| ZIP | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Frühe und späte hoch ansteigende Täler im Deutschen. Überlegungen zu Gussenhoven/Rietveld, Lg&Sp 2000. Präsentation in der Prosodiegruppe, IPDS Kiel, November 2004. | |
| Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Bemerkungen zu Gussenhoven "Experimental approaches to establishing gradience vs discreteness in intonation" (Experimental Prosody Research Workshop, Leipzig, 8.10.04). Manuscript. | ||
| PPT | Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Dichotomien lautsprachlicher Analyse und ihr Realitätsanspruch. Wissenschaftstheoretische Überlegungen zur Phonetik. Präsentation in der Prosodiegruppe, IPDS Kiel, Dezember 2004. | |
| Klaus J. Kohler (2004). Bemerkungen zu Atterer/Ladd "On the phonetics and phonology of "segmental anchoring" of F0, evidence from German". Manuscript. | ||
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Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Prosodie in der sprachlichen Kommunikation - Die Kieler Intonationsforschung. Vortrag im Institut für Germanistik, Universität Potsdam. Februar 2005. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Der Ton macht die Musik - Prosodie zwischen Physik und Bedeutung. Vorlesung zur Prosodie, IPDS, Modul H. 12. Mai 2005. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Quo vadis, Scientia Phonetica? Ein wissenschaftliches Manifest. Präsentation in der Prosodiegruppe, IPDS Kiel, 6./22./29. Juni 2005. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Der Ton macht die Musik - Prosodie zwischen Physik und Semantik. Vortrag für die Societas Christiana Albertina, 4. Juli 2005. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Der Ton macht die Musik - Die Armut des geschriebenen, der Reichtum des gesprochenen Wortes. Vortrag für die Schleswig-Holsteinische Universitätsgesellschaft, zuletzt vor der Sektion Kronshagen, 15. November 2005. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2005). Prosodie in der sprachlichen Kommunikation. Vom Signal zur Funktion. Vortrag im Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena. 1. Juni 2005. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2006). Mein Abschiedskolloquium mit der Prosodiegruppe - Die Zukunft der deutschen Phonetik, IPDS KIel. 26. Juli 2006. |
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Klaus J. Kohler (2006). Der Ton macht die Musik. Prosodie zwischen Signal und Bedeutung. Ringvorlesung 'Angewandte Linguistik', Romanisches Seminar der CAU, Kiel, 21. November 2006. |
| Oliver Niebuhr (2004). Intrinsic pitch in opening and closing diphthongs of German. In: B. Bel, I. Marlien (eds.): Proc. International Conference: Speech Prosody 2004, Nara/ Japan, 733-736. | ||
| Oliver Niebuhr ZIP/HTML/WAV/PDF | ||
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Benno Peters (2005). Form und Funktion prosodischer Grenzen in deutscher Spontansprache. Vortrag im Institut für Germanistik, Universität Potsdam. Februar 2005. |
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| PPT | Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Lund). Prosodic signalling of (un)expected information in South Swedish. | |
| Gösta Bruce (Lund). The role of word accent timing in a typology of Swedish intonation. | ||
| ZIP | Ernst Dombrowski (Kiel). Phrase-final rises in turn-yielding and turn-holding: a function-based analysis of a corpus of German unscripted speech. | |
| ZIP | Felicitas Kleber (Kiel). Form and function of falling pitch contours in English. | |
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Klaus J. Kohler (Kiel). Functional timing of prosody. |
| ZIP | |
Oliver Niebuhr (Kiel). The contribution of f0, intensity and duration in the perception of German peak categories. |
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Benno Peters (Kiel). Form and function of prosodic boundaries in German spontaneous speech. |
| PPT | Susanne Schoetz (Lund). Formant synthesis of speaker age (+ a question regarding prosodic timing). | |
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Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund). Is Kammu a tone language?. |
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Last changes: December 2011, K. J. Kohler