Laboratory Phonology at Leibniz-ZAS

Yesterday (12.12.24), Professor Oliver Niebuhr from the University of Southern Denmark delivered a fantastic talk at Leibniz-ZAS titled “Beyond Words: Charisma, Multimodal Communication, and the Role of Speech Technology."

New DoReCo corpus version 2.0 is out! DoReCo 2.0 contains annotated and time-aligned speech data from 53 languages. The bulk of the update from v.1.2 to v.2.0 was developed within the AIRAL project at Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS). Link: doreco.huma-num.fr

Join us for "Beyond Words: Charisma, Multimodal Communication, and the Role of Speech Technology" with Oliver Niebuhr (USD). 🗓️ Date: 12.12.24 ⏰ Time: 10:00-11:30 AM 📍 Location: ZAS, Pariser Str. 1, Berlin (Ilse-Zimmermann-Saal) 🌐 Online: please write to zygis@leibniz-zas.de

What do Farsi speakers do with their facial expressions when they whisper and wear a mask? If you're interested, take a look at our new publication in Language and Cognition. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We had a great showing at P&P 24 in Halle, with three talks and five posters covering a bunch of different topics. It was awesome catching up with our colleagues from Germany and elsewhere!

The awesome Multimodal Communication (MMSYM) conference in Frankfurt has wrapped up! We presented our work on (i) multimodal coordination, (ii) prosody & gestures, and (iii) whispered voices and facial expressions. We had such a great time!

Stefanie Jannedy and Sarah Wesolek represented our laboratory phonology group at Interspeech 2024 on the island of Kos, Greece. Their studies on f0 variation in German and the influence of L2 accent and different error types on personality traits attracted much attention.

Excited to share that two of our colleagues presented collaborative work at @LabPhon 19, held at Hanyang University in Seoul! 🗣️🌏🇰🇷 For the proceedings see: labphon.org/labphon19/proc…

Amazing night at the 8th Long Night of Sciences in Berlin! We shared our research and had thrilling conversations with so many curious minds. Many people also participated in our experiments. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us!

📢We will have our next ZASx Talk on Tuesday next week (28th of May, 3pm). @lucejackson will speak about accent use in the media & its impact on the social evaluations of speech Write us to get the zoom link: ✉️ zas.xtalks@leibniz-zas.de 🖥️ leibniz-zas.de/de/forschung/f…

Erfolgreiche Teilnahme am #IKKBBBerlinerFirmenlauf 2024! Dieses Jahr gingen 14 Mitarbeiter:innen an den Start, um die 5,5km lange Strecke zu meistern. Ziel des Laufs ist die Förderung von #Gemeinschaft und #Gesundheit. Vielen Dank und Glückwunsch an unsere Teilnehmer:innen!

We are very pleased to welcome Bob Ladd at our institute. On Thursday he gave an interesting talk on "Prosodic Structure and the Prominence of Pitch Accents". Thank you, Bob!

We had to bid farewell to our esteemed technician, Jörg Dreier, as he enters a well-deserved retirement after 32 years of work at our institute. We’ll miss you, Jörg!!!

📢We will have our next ZASx Talk on Thursday next week (15th of February, 2pm). @LaraBurchardt will speak about communication rhythms across the animal kingdom. 🦇🐸🐠 ✉️ zas.xtalks@leibniz-zas.de 🖥️ leibniz-zas.de/de/forschung/f…

We,from FB1, together with our esteemed colleague and former ZAS director Manfred Krifka, would like to send out our festive greetings. Have a Merry Christmas 🎄, a relaxing break full of good food and a fruitful New Year! 🎊

We are proud to announce that Heather Weston defended her thesis yesterday (11.12.23). 👏 Hats off to you, Dr. Weston! As you wrapped up this incredible chapter, we’re grateful to have shared the journey.

Have you ever thought that children may produce more subtle contrasts in speech than adults? In our research, we present evidence that children comprehend words articulated by adults more accurately than those spoken by themselves. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Does your perception of a speaker match what you consciously declare? We're experimenting with this in our new project 'Conscious and Unconscious Attitudes Toward L2 Accents in the Polish-German Context,’ @ZASBerlin and Uni Wroclaw, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation.

Members of our @labphonologyZAS enjoyed a wonderful time at @pundp2023 in Bern. For the abstacts of our two posters and one talk see: boris.unibe.ch/186731/ We had a wonderful time! Thank you.🇨🇭

Bye bye @gespin2023!! Members of @LabPhon_ZAS enjoyed the conference and we were happy to present our work @sfuchs18, @cwiekaleks, @NasimMeh. We had very interesting discussions! @kadavasar - was part of the organisation team :) thanks! 🎉