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Aviad Albert

@aviadalbert.bsky.social

Doing phon{etics/ology} at the University of Cologne. Interested in auditory perception and cognition, and in the tension between dynamic and symbolic models of language.

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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

doi.org/10.1017/9781... Very excited to have this chapter on #speech #rhythm, co-authored with Martine Grice, finally published last week. (1/4)

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Rhythm Is a Timescale (Chapter 14) - Rhythms of Speech and Language

Rhythms of Speech and Language - May 2026

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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Am I the only person who is extremely unhappy with the new design of projects on OSF (osf.io)? Files and GitHub links have now moved to the least intuitive location, making existing repositories so much less useful. Hey @cos.io, please reconsider this change! 🙄🙏

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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Yay, Simona. Well deserved!

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 18/12/2024

Rest in Peace Bill Labov, age 97 I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

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Language Log » Bill Labov

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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I am very happy to announce that my book is among the winners of the 2024 Offermann-Hergarten prize for published dissertations from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne. I couldn't be more grateful! 🙏 (1/3)

From left to right: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hüttemann (Dean of Research), Dr. Aviad Albert, Roland Held (representative of the foundation), Prof. Dr. Nicolas Pethes (jury chairman), Dr. Tessa Gengnagel, Dr. Adrian Meyer, Dr. Nicolai Busch, Prof. Dr. Stefan Grohé (Dean) and Alfred Fuhrmann (representative of the foundation). The two other prize winners, Dr. Eva-Maria Cersovsky and Dr. Tabea Thies, are only represented by their books.

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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

We analyzed the prosody of Italian learners of German in a new paper on Journal of Phonetics, led by Simona Sbranna and co-authored with Martine Grice: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (1/2)

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Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German

Previous studies report that Italian learners of German transfer their L1 prosody to their L2 when marking information status prosodically within noun…

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The call for the fellowship program 2025 at the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne is out now! See the link below for more details!

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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

My book, "A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, is available on Language Science Press (open access): langsci-press.org/catalog/book... Read on the to see what it’s all about… (1/10) #sonority #pitch #prosody #phonetics #phonology

Book cover of "A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, Language Science Press

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