Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026We 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) 000
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Our 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) 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026doi.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)doi.orgRhythms of Speech and LanguageCambridge Core - Cognition - Rhythms of Speech and Language 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026doi.org/10.1017/9781... Very excited to have this chapter on #speech #rhythm, co-authored with Martine Grice, finally published last week. (1/4)doi.orgRhythm Is a Timescale (Chapter 14) - Rhythms of Speech and LanguageRhythms of Speech and Language - May 2026 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Am 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! 🙄🙏osf.ioOSF 000
Reposted by Aviad AlbertGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 18/12/2024Rest 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=67399languagelog.ldc.upenn.eduLanguage Log » Bill Labov 423045
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024You can find more details about my book, “A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility”, in previous posts: bsky.app/profile/avia... (3/3) 000
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The 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)phil-fak.uni-koeln.deOffermann-Hergarten-Preis 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I 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) 140
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024We used the ProPer analysis toolbox to uncover some unexpected trends related to both pitch contours and syllabic weight distribution. osf.io/28ea5/ (2/2)osf.ioProPer: PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energyA 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... 010
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024We 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)sciencedirect.comInvestigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of GermanPrevious studies report that Italian learners of German transfer their L1 prosody to their L2 when marking information status prosodically within noun… 131
Reposted by Aviad Albertifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The call for the fellowship program 2025 at the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne is out now! See the link below for more details! 034
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This is definitely violating some constraints! Brilliant!!! 🤣 020
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024ProPer 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) 000
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024Finally, 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)osf.ioProPer: PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energyA 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... 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024PRiORS 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) 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024In 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) 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024Further corpus-based evidence for NAP was also previously published in a paper in Radical: radical.cnrs.fr/albert-sonor... (6/10)radical.cnrs.fr[ALBERT] Sonority in Modern HebrewSonority 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… 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024The 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)doi.orgModeling Sonority in Terms of Pitch Intelligibility With the Nucleus Attraction PrincipleSonority 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... 110
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024I 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) 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024Sonority 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) 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024I provide a comprehensive and decisive answer to a century-old question in linguistics: What is the phonetic basis of sonority? (2/10) 100
Aviad Albert @aviadalbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2024My 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 190