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Aviad Albert

@aviadalbert.bsky.social
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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
We conclude that the notion of rhythm should consist of the various effects of temporal integration of isolated acoustic events within the relevant timescale. (4/4)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our chapter suggests clearer definitions for the role of rhythm in speech (to achieve certain prosodic effects) and how it essentially differs from rhythm in music (especially in relation to isochrony). (3/4)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
doi.org/10.1017/9781... It appears in an impressive collection of contemporary perspectives on rhythm in language, edited by Lars Meyer and Antje Strauß. (2/4)
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Rhythms of Speech and Language
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Rhythms of Speech and 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
You can find more details about my book, “A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, in previous posts: bsky.app/profile/avia... (3/3)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Offermann-Hergarten foundation was set up by Anna-Maria Offermann-Hergarten to honor special achievements by early-career researchers in humanities. See: phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/au... (2/3)
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Offermann-Hergarten-Preis
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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 used the ProPer analysis toolbox to uncover some unexpected trends related to both pitch contours and syllabic weight distribution. osf.io/28ea5/ (2/2)
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ProPer: PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy
A workflow for acoustic analysis of speech prosody based on continuous measurements of periodic energy and F0 (requires Praat and R). ProPer analyses cover a wide range of prosodic phenomena, includi...
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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 · 05/12/2024
This is definitely violating some constraints! Brilliant!!! 🤣
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
ProPer is an open source toolbox that presents many advantages to acoustic analysis of prosodic aspects: prominence relations, pitch contour and dynamic speech rate. (10/10)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Finally, I present in this book a full overview of the acoustic analysis toolbox that we developed in Cologne — ProPer (PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy): osf.io/28ea5/ (9/10)
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ProPer: PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy
A workflow for acoustic analysis of speech prosody based on continuous measurements of periodic energy and F0 (requires Praat and R). ProPer analyses cover a wide range of prosodic phenomena, includi...
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
PRiORS can do a lot of heavy lifting in explaining the roles of pitch and rhythm in speech, and it serves as the theoretical backbone of the current proposal. (8/10)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
In this book I also present PRiORS (Perceptual Regimes of Repetitive Sound) — a general framework to account for linguistic models based on auditory perception. (7/10)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Further corpus-based evidence for NAP was also previously published in a paper in Radical: radical.cnrs.fr/albert-sonor... (6/10)
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[ALBERT] Sonority in Modern Hebrew
Sonority in Modern Hebrew Aviad Albert (reviewers: Daniel Asherov, Matthew Gordon) download paper and reviews Abstract: This paper investigates the phonotactics of Modern Hebrew as a means to demon…
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
The experimental evidence I present for NAP was previously published in a paper with Bruno Nicenboim in Cognitive Science: doi.org/10.1111/cogs... (5/10)
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Modeling Sonority in Terms of Pitch Intelligibility With the Nucleus Attraction Principle
Sonority is a fundamental notion in phonetics and phonology, central to many descriptions of the syllable and various useful predictions in phonotactics. Although widely accepted, sonority lacks a cl...
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
I introduce The Nucleus Attraction Principle (NAP) to account for well-formedness in phonotactics, as an alternative to the traditional Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP). (4/10)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Sonority in this work stems from auditory perception. Specifically, it is the reflection of a bottom-up process that shaped syllables as pitch-bearing units in all language systems. I suggest that sonority is tightly linked to periodic energy in the acoustic signal. (3/10)
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Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
I provide a comprehensive and decisive answer to a century-old question in linguistics: What is the phonetic basis of sonority? (2/10)
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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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